11/05/2024
WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING
The world's tallest building is Burj Khalifa in Dubai U.A.E
It is exactly 828-metre-tall (2,717 ft) and has 163 floors plus 2 underground.
It's Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009.
Buy the time of it's completion, a record of 12,000 workmen had been involved in it's construction.
The building is designed with a complex Y-shaped cross section to reduce the effect of wind.
Burj Khalifa is owned by Emaar Properties, a business founded by billionaire Mohamed Ali Alabbar, but it was built by Samsung C&T of South Korea, BESIX of Belgium, and Arabtech of the United Arab Emirates.
The building houses hotel and luxury residences, offices, observation decks, restaurants and health facilities.
Interestingly, it takes about three months to clean the building from the top to the bottom.
In Kenya, our tallest building is only 656 ft. The Britam towers.
