BURG DUBAI
will be officially opening its doors in
january 4,2010.

13 November 2009, 7:19 AMJanuary 4, 2010. The city will have a new global icon. Burj Dubai. Work on the world’s tallest building had started in January 2004.

Six years later, having used a record-breaking 330,000 cubic metres of concrete, 39,000 metric tons of steel rebar, 142,000 square metres of glass and 22 million man hours, the tower will be officially opening its doors.

The opening date has been chosen to mark the Accession Day of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of
Dubai, said Emaar’s Chairman Mohamed Alabbar.

The opening of Burj Dubai to mark Shaikh Mohammed’s accession anniversary is, in fact, a fitting tribute to the leader. Emaar has always maintained that Burj Dubai was inspired by
Shaikh Mohammed.

Alabbar, in an earlier interview, said that when the company initially conceived Burj Dubai, it was only a 90-storey structure.

“Why stop there,” Shaikh Mohammed had asked when he was presented with the blueprint, recalled Alabbar.