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Saudi Arabia to begin building world’s tallest skyscraper
The Telegraph ^ | 18 Apr 2014 | Ben Lazarus

Posted on 04/18/2014 4:55:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Saudi Arabia is scheduled to begin building the world’s tallest tower next week, which will soar 1km in to the sky when completed.

The Kingdom Tower in the coastal city of Jeddah will measure 3,280 feet (1km), some 568 feet (173 meters) taller than the current Guinness world record holder, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2,716 feet (827 metres).

At an estimated cost of $1.23bn, the tower in Saudi will require approximately 5.7 million square feet of concrete, 80,000 tonnes of steel for its 200 floors and will take five years to complete, according to The Saudi Gazette.

The tower, overlooking the Red Sea, will feature a five-star Four Seasons hotel, apartments, office space and an observatory.

But constructing the tower is not without its many challenges.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burjkhalifa; dubai; fourseasons; jeddah; kingdomtower; redsea; saudiarabia
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To: PieterCasparzen

Doesn’t matter who is building it, we’re not the ones having it. The arabs and Chinese are leaving us in their dust.


21 posted on 04/18/2014 5:06:02 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: molson209

LOL!


22 posted on 04/18/2014 5:06:26 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: MinorityRepublican

23 posted on 04/18/2014 5:06:49 PM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: molson209

You think they’re trying to compensate for something?


24 posted on 04/18/2014 5:06:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican
All this muss and fuss over Saudi Arabia building a skyscraper with our oil money. Instead of congratulating Saudi Arabia for their achievement, we instead make catty comments like a coven of jealous schoolgirls after the star quarterback walks away with the homecoming queen on his arm.

How pathetic!

25 posted on 04/18/2014 5:13:54 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: mrsmel

nearly twice as tall...


26 posted on 04/18/2014 5:19:18 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: MinorityRepublican

Great lets wait until they’re finished and crash an airliner into it.


27 posted on 04/18/2014 5:21:53 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Monty22002

Dollars go to SA in exchange for oil.

Those dollars have to come BACK somehow.

This is one of the ways.

European and American companies sell TONS of stuff to the mideast.

Trucks, powerplants, management consulting, airplanes, heavy equipment, engineering services, etc., etc.

Then dollars go from SA back to US companies as sales.

We have to sell them something in exchange for buying from them.


28 posted on 04/18/2014 5:24:16 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: SamAdams76

They knocked down our 2nd tallest buildings and we’re supposed to cheer them on when they build taller than we can now? Uh huh


29 posted on 04/18/2014 5:26:50 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Semper911

by the time they finish it,most of us here on free republic will be between 100 and 125 years old.


30 posted on 04/18/2014 5:27:34 PM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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To: Monty22002

No, but instead of sitting around and whining about it, we should go ahead and build a few of our own.


31 posted on 04/18/2014 5:28:23 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

We can’t. We’re too poor and too afraid cause they’ll be targets for the Saudis to knock down anyway.


32 posted on 04/18/2014 5:29:10 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Monty22002

Well, then we get what we deserve then.


33 posted on 04/18/2014 5:33:07 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: MinorityRepublican

The problem is they have to build it on sand


34 posted on 04/18/2014 5:34:54 PM PDT by BRL
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To: Semper911

Its missing the call-to-prayer loudspeakers.


35 posted on 04/18/2014 5:44:36 PM PDT by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: doc1019

Why?

Maybe to make it easier for their wahabbi folks to knock down a building with an airplane


36 posted on 04/18/2014 5:46:50 PM PDT by Figment
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To: PieterCasparzen

Absolutely right. Engineering company I work for has been doing preliminary foundation testing on this site for a year. And we don’t work cheap. If the Saudis have penis envy or whatever the reason for building this monstrosity, I’m happy to help them get over it at $1,500/ day.


37 posted on 04/18/2014 5:53:25 PM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Half-brother is Watching You!)
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To: SamAdams76

“No, but instead of sitting around and whining about it, we should go ahead and build a few of our own.”

For what?


38 posted on 04/18/2014 5:54:00 PM PDT by Figment
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To: MinorityRepublican

They can use it to train the next group of Saudi one-way, 9/11, terrorist pilots.


39 posted on 04/18/2014 5:54:01 PM PDT by Iron Munro (NSA reports Malaysia Flight 370 black box signals detected in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: MinorityRepublican

40 posted on 04/18/2014 5:56:22 PM PDT by upchuck (Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
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