I love playing with my lego sets too.:meeting:

billsy wrote:

Holy Fu.....
only in dubai!

built with slave labour from pakistan,india bagladesh and africa..hope it fall on down...one place on earth i would spend my hard earned coin...scumbags

blak_b4 wrote:

900 ain't shlt.. 

Think I recall seeing a short doco on the building of this. If its the same building, they were using modified GPS units to get the building as straight as possible, to make sure it all lined up straight.
Awesome technology goes in to this stuff :suicide_f

XoN wrote:

Think I recall seeing a short doco on the building of this. If its the same building, they were using modified GPS units to get the building as straight as possible, to make sure it all lined up straight.
Awesome technology goes in to this stuff :suicide_f

That building is being constructed by the same people who did the Q1 here on the gold coast which is 90odd stories....Q1 must have been practice for that building!!

SOO081 wrote:

i wouldn't like to be evacuated out of that building if I was at the top floor, and if there was a fire.

blak_b4 wrote:

Imagine if you left your keys up there an the lift was out of order!!!

I was in Dubai in August for a few days - the whole place is a building site. And the building goes on 24hrs a day, but I felt for the guys doing the day shift in 45 degree heat.

Its amazing what you can build when you have heaps of cash, cheap labour and an unbelievable need to make a statement.

My sister's boyfriend is a surveyor - working on a project that involves tunnelling machines. He was telling me at xmas time that they use lasers to help guide the machines and keep them headed in the right direction. I suppose that this may also be one of the ways they are keeping the building straight...