The soon-to-open Burj Dubai is entering the record book as the world’s tallest building and sharing this honour, is Malaysian structural steel construction firm, Eversendai Corporation.
According to group managing director Datuk A.K. Nathan, the final 260m of the soaring tower was an all-steel structure, and Eversendai had the privilege of putting it up successfully.
“In fact, we’re the first company in the world to have worked above 700m.No one in the world has worked above this height,” he told Bernama here.
Previous reports have mentioned that the Burj Dubai is over 800m tall with more than 160 floors.
Its developer Emaar Properties is keeping mum though about the actual height of the gleaming tower, amid statements that its spire can be seen 95km away.
The Burj Dubai is to be inaugurated on Jan 4 next year by United Arab Emirates (UAE) vice-president and prime minister, and ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Nathan said Eversendai also carried out structural steelworks on other parts of the Burj Dubai.
Alluding to the last 260m of the super-tall building, Nathan said it was a highly complex structure needing precise design, fabrication and contruction processes.
“And we’ve done everything to the full satisfaction of our client without any kind of accident,” he said proudly.
Nathan also said Eversendai had good working relations with the tower’s main contractor, Samsung Corporation of South Korea.
Both companies had been involved in the construction of the Petronas Twin Tower 2 in Kuala Lumpur.
Tracing Eversendai’s history in the UAE, he said: “I first came here in the mid-90s and our first job was the Burj Al Arab hotel, off the coast of Dubai.”
Then came a slew of other projects in the UAE, Qatar and other places worth billions of ringgit for Eversendai.
Qatar is a particularly bright spot for Eversendai, which is currently involved in projects such as, the new Doha international airport and the Dubai Towers-Doha.
Nathan reckoned that to be where Eversendai is now, has not been easy.
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