Abstract
In just over two decades, Dubai has transformed from a desert served by a single port to a flourishing metropolis. Dubai alone is the home to 20% of the world’s tallest 50 buildings. This transformation brings new challenges to the city during construction and post completion. The surrounding areas will be affected by these skyscrapers from transportation, traffic constraints, parking, power and water consumption and other factors. The cost of building a skyscraper remains the major obstacle with the need to source out new materials other than steel and concrete. Also, moving people around efficiently in super tall buildings is another challenge for engineers keeping in mind the unique designs that architects are looking after. Once all design aspects are concluded and approved by different stakeholders, it will move on to the next phase which is construction, that is called: Reality.Construction realization is the focus of this paper. It will discuss the actual facts and surprises which will be encountered during the transformation of the design into shop drawings and tangible concrete. A physical case study from a busy district in the city of Dubai is the main focus of this study along with the core challenges and obstacles faced the team during the execution phase. Also, this review will debate couple of design elements that were considered as a design feature then developed to be a real construction challenge.Originality/value: the paper will focus on a case study of a high-end skyscrapers designed and built in the city of Dubai in a dense area and the challenges faced by the team during construction. These challenges are beneficial to understand since they will help architects and designers to take into consideration during their studies.
Highlights
Dubai is located on the Eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, in the south west corner of the Arabian Gulf
The history of skyscrapers and tall buildings in Dubai began with the construction of Dubai World Trade Centre in 1979 comprising of 39 floors and 149m tall, which was considered as the first high-rise building in the city
Height in meter 828 425 413 392 380 370 360 356. These buildings and skyscrapers are distributed along the city of Dubai, majority of them are located in three areas namely Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT) and Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR) where the construction took place between the year 2004 and 2017
Summary
Dubai is located on the Eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, in the south west corner of the Arabian Gulf. The discovery of oil changed everything though, Dubai’s reserves were insignificant compared with other emirates, the ruler of Dubai, was determined to turn the city into a trading hub. It attracts a booming tourist business, drawn in part by major sporting events including horse races, boat races, tennis matches, and air shows. It is considered as a major shopping destination and an international city. Dubai has emphasized on the creation of a world class city comprising skyscrapers, shopping malls, hotels, leisure and entertainment which will evolve around the city’s vision to be an attraction and a tourist destination. The government of Dubai has realized this issue and started addressing it by creating several projects such as Dubai metro, Dubai Tram and other roads and bridges around those developments (Jacobs, 2018)
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