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Burj Dubai
Using Doka formwork systems, the highest building all over the world is rising in Dubai.

The architectural design of the tower - based on an Arabic desert flower - demands highest adaptability of the formwork and the tough time schedule a sophisticated applications engineering.
Project data
Type of building: Hotel, residence, office tower
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Start of construction: February, 2005
Total construction time: ~ 40 months
Construction time cores: ~ 30 months
Building data
Method: Cores ahead
Step height: 3,20 m / 3,50 m / 3,70 m / 4,00 m
Floors: 160
Steps: 180
Additional info
  • up to a 2,5 days cycle
  • 1 central core, 3 wing walls
  • SKE100, 4 concrete placing pump
  • reinforcement platform
Contractor
Joint Venture: Samsung, Besix, Arabtec
Kontakt: Kim, Ivan Bruyninckx, (Robin), Kang
Formwork design
Organisation in Country: Doka Dubai
  E-Mail: Mr. Geir Jensen (Sales Representative)
  E-Mail: Mr. Werner Wiedemann (Technical Manager)
Project management Doka
  E-Mail: Mr. Martin Hoerlesberger (Project Manager Burj Dubai)
Contact Self-climbing Systems Expertise Centre
  E-Mail: Mr. Christian Pimiskern (Project Manager Amstetten)
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Press article: Burj Dubai reaches 601 m on schedule
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