LEGO Architecture Burj Khalifa Building Instructions page 7

encounters a different building shape.

This structural system enables the building to support itself

laterally and keeps it from twisting.

At the top, the central core emerges and transitions to

a special steel framed structure which is sculpted to form a

finished spire. The spire of Burj Khalifa is composed of more

than 4,000 tons of structural steel.

The building utilizes high-speed, non-stop shuttle

elevators to sky lobby floors where passengers transfer to

local elevators serving the floors in between.

Burj Khalifa wind.jpg – © SOM

Inside the high-speed elevator

Burj Khalifa has 57 elevators

and 8 escalators. Travelling

at 10 meters/sec (33 feet/

sec) per second, they have

the world's longest travel

distance from lowest to

highest stop. The building

service/fireman's elevator

will have a capacity of 5,500

kilograms (12,000 pounds)

and is the world's tallest

service elevator.

To achieve the greatest

efficiencies, the mechanical,

electrical and plumbing

services for Burj Khalifa

were developed all together

during the design phase of

the tower in cooperation with

the architect, structural