An expert claims that skyscrapers or high buildings are a disaster for the environment, the economy, and society. Isaac Meir, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, claims that high rises as they are being built now are a threat.
The 500-meter-tall, 163-story Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the world’s tallest structure, but only for the time being. Saudi Arabia plans to construct a kilometer-tall 0.62-mile-tall skyscraper with more than 167 floors.
Skyscrapers’ Danger
Several causes: There is an atmosphere of success and eroticism surrounding skyscrapers. For developers, they are lucrative. Moreover, they conserve space in ever-more-dense metropolitan environments.
In March, Meir, a member of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s department of civil and environmental engineering and School of Sustainability and Climate Change, will deliver the keynote address at the International Council for Research and Innovation in Buildings and Construction’s SBE23 Sustainable Built Environment conference in Greece.
According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a building with 14 or more floors and a height greater than 50 meters (165 ft) is considered tall.
A supertall building exceeds 300 meters in height (984 feet). A megatall structure is 600 meters tall (1,968 feet). There are currently 115 finished supertalls and three completed megatalls, with more in development.
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Burj Khalifa
The Burj Khalifa tower is much more than the highest building in the world. For many, it represents the unlimited potential of the human mind.
Who could have imagined in the stone age that one-day mankind would construct a structure that would soar above the clouds? With a breathtaking height of 2,717 feet (828 meters), a foundation 164 feet (51.2 meters) deep, and the highest outdoor viewing deck in the world, Burj Khalifa is nothing short of an architectural marvel.
The building has an average of 35,000 occupants per day and requires around 36 mW of electricity and 250,000 gallons of water per day.
The quantity of concrete poured into the base of Burj Khalifa alone could fill 18 Olympic-sized swimming pools. In addition, five Airbus A 380 airlines would be required to store all the metal from the Burj Khalifa, which is the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
The 31,500 metric tons of steel needed to construct this 206-story skyscraper can be utilized to create a steel route extending to one-fourth of the Earth’s surface.
Some countries are recognized for their people and others for their culture, but for Dubai, it’s the Burj Khalifa a magnificent tower that represents the pinnacle of human imagination and ingenuity.
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