Fast Facts
- The concrete used for Burj Khalifa is equivalent to the weight of 100,000 elephants.
- The amount of steel rebar used for the tower is 31,400 metric tons. Laid end to end this would extend over a quarter of the way around the world.
- Condensate is collected from the building’s cooling system and used for irrigation of landscape plantings. Every year, 15 million gallons of water are sustainably collected this way.
- The cladding of Burj Khalifa contains over 24,000 individually cut glass panels.
- The curtain wall area of Burj Khalifa is equivalent to 17 football fields.
- Burj Khalifa’s observatory elevators are amongst the fastest in the world, with a speed of up to 10 metres per second.
- Burj Khalifa is the tallest building and free-standing structure in the world at over 800 metres high.
- The tip of the spire can be seen 95 km away.
- At the peak of construction, 12,000 workers were on site every day.
- With over 160 levels – no other building has more storey’s.
