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Burj Khalifa opens at 828 m

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The tower opens in Dubai with a published height of 828 m and about 163 habitable floors. Its buttressed core - a hexagonal concrete core with three buttressing wings, each stepping back at a different level - was shaped in wind-tunnel testing to break up organised vortex shedding, so the form is a wind response before it is an aesthetic one. Reinforced concrete carries the structure to roughly level 156; a steel spire continues above.

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  1. Story
  2. The tower opens in Dubai with a published height of 828 m and about 163 habitable floors. Its buttressed core - a hexagonal concrete core with three buttressing wings, each stepping back at a different level - was shaped in wind-tunnel testing to break up organised vortex shedding, so the form is a wind response before it is an aesthetic one. Reinforced concrete carries the structure to roughly level 156; a steel spire continues above.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Structural steel
  5. Reinforced concrete
  6. Burj Khalifa
  7. Burj Khalifa opens at 828 m
  8. Connections
  9. Burj Khalifa
  10. Reinforced concrete
  11. Structural steel
  12. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
  13. Load path
  14. The safety elevator
  15. Reinforced concrete
  16. Fazlur Rahman Khan
  17. Burj Khalifa opens at 828 m
  18. Roman concrete (opus caementicium)
  19. Structural steel
  20. Burj Khalifa
  21. Monier patents iron-reinforced cement
  22. The Hennebique system makes reinforced concrete a frame
  23. Burj Khalifa opens at 828 m
  24. The steel skeleton frame
  25. Reinforced concrete
  26. Bessemer describes the converter to the British Association
  27. The Hennebique system makes reinforced concrete a frame
  28. Burj Khalifa opens at 828 m
  29. Evidence
  30. Burj Khalifa is recorded with an architectural height of 828 m and about 163 habitable floors, completed 2010, and has been listed by CTBUH as the world's tallest building since completion. V55 verification basis: skyscrapercenter.com was not reachable in this session, so the CURRENT tallest-building status as of August 2026 is NOT established by this record and must be re-checked.
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