Burj Khalifa
About Burj Khalifa
The Burj Khalifa is a megatall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it is the world's tallest structure, with a total height of 829.8 m and a roof height of 828 m (2,717 ft). It has also been the tallest building in the world since its topping out in 2009, surpassing Taipei 101, which had held the record since 2004.
On the show — 24 mentions total
The main company that does Burj Khalifa, which is the highest building — if you want to get a job there, they show you a video nasty before you are allowed to apply. They show you really awful examples of people who almost fell and stuff.
from 465: No Such Thing As An Itching Powder Guild, 2023-02-10 at 00:24:48 · read transcript
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Sorry, because it sounded like you were describing a modern architect's dream, like, you know, beautiful glass everywhere, spiral stackers. It's built around a slowly growing core of poo. According to my memory of this fact, the Burj Khalifa is not 100% dissimilar to that in that there's no sewerage underneath it. So the poo collects at the bottom of the building. Every day at the end of the day, trucks have to take the poo and the wee out away from the building and go to a dumping ground and put it there.
530: No Such Thing As A Throbberthrob, 2024-05-09 · listen
Oh, definitely. I couldn't find many examples of Neolithic housing, but Jericho is interesting. Supposed to be the oldest city in the world. Did you know that? No. On the Palestinian West Bank. The Tower of Jericho is the oldest stone building in the world, 8,000 years old. How interesting. Wow. The Neolithic housing in Jericho, they had the doors were in the roof. Did you know that?
522: No Such Thing As Monet's Bog Cottons, 2024-03-14 · listen
That's very clever. The first department store in New York City to have a lift, it promised customers it would take them to the second floor in 26 seconds. OK, today, the lift in the Burj Al Khalifa goes 2038 feet in 35 seconds. That's how far we've come in that time. Do you know in 1989, the guy called Nicholas White got trapped in his office for 41 hours after there's a power cut and he got stuck between two floors and no one noticed him.
66: No Such Thing As A Robotic Margaret Atwood, 2015-06-19 · listen
It produces a lot of carbon dioxide, the manufacturing. Yeah. Because I didn't realize it is the most widely used material in the world, concrete, which is kind of extraordinary. They do this amazing thing with it. I was reading about the building of the Burj Khalifa, which is still the tallest building in the world, isn't it, the Burj Khalifa? Yeah. That is six. That's almost entirely made of concrete.
279: No Such Thing As A Backflipping Doctor, 2019-07-26 · listen
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