Case studies
Burj Khalifa, Dubai
Repute has been used by
Hyder Consulting (UK/Middle East) for
the design of pile foundations for the
Burj Khalifa, the world's
tallest building. The $1 billion skyscraper is 828m tall and features 160 floors, 58 elevators, luxury apartments,
swimming pools, hotels and a 124th floor
observation platform. The tower’s 192 piles have been constructed to
depths of more than 50 metres and are bound together by a 3.7 metre thick
concrete raft across 8,000 square metres, encompassing the tower’s entire
footprint.
Numerical analyses using Repute were performed by Prof. Harry Poulos in order to study the load-settlement behavior and load distribution among the piles. Further details can be found in "Tall Building Foundation Design" textbook (Poulos, 2017) and the paper by Poulos & Bunce "Foundation design for the Burj Dubai - The World's Tallest Building" (Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering and Symp. in Honor of Prof. J.K. Mitchell, August 2008, Arlington, Usa, Paper No. 1.47, pp. 1-16).
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