Inside Burj Khalifa during thunderstorm swaying making noise like a ship calmly sailing the seas. 

There's nothing calm about that noise when you realize you are not in a ship.

Now that I think about it... The lower levels are probably more expensive. XD

Imagine just sleeping at 3am and hearing that creaking in the middle of the night. God that’s my worst nightmare.

The amount of trust y’all have. I’d run for my life

I did carpet tiles on 60th floor in Boston in a storm and that swaying was creepy, not to mention cargo elevator that's 40 yrs old is haunting. I can't imagine a building 3Xs taller

i would have lost my shit and left dubai

Exactly the same sound at 601 Lexington in NYC, during Friday's windy downpour/sleet. You could feel your feet wobbling a bit the whole day. The sound is actually from the metal studs shifting against the iron beams. In some places you could hear the creaking directly coming from a junction in the beams. And this building is decades old.

You couldn't give me a free condo at that height!

...These are strong winds, hitting a large and tall tower that has a huge mass footprint. It's going to sway.

OK...that would be scarey....to be that high up and swaying like that. Really does remind me of a ship..the noises and the rocking.

This is the power of engineering

Scary stuff, I would have moved the next day!! lol. But, really, I wouldn't be able to live up that high in the first place. Blessings and safety to all who do.

Yeah no thanks. Swaying a little in the wind is one thing, I understand that what skyscrapers are designed to do. This is something else. This much movement in a lower floor is pretty concerning. Especially considering the building is still pretty new. The Burj Khalifa is designed to sway almost 5 feet at the top but damn, I wouldn’t hang around long.

The baby felt it! And It didn't sound like it enjoyed it!

I've always believed that tall buildings are built that way in order to get as much as possible within the building's footprint. What I would like to see is a huge space scraper built that has the same amount of square feet directly below the above-ground building. A "mirror" of itself directly below it, doubling its floor space on the same sized piece of real-estate.

I'd rather hear creaking than cracking. Sway is a part of their design, provided the design *and construction* is properly executed. I'd be much more worried if it didn't move, but instead heard popping sounds and felt the floor rumble.

taller the build, the greater the torque through the top of the building, downward. the micro stress fractures that result over time on the concrete will be something to watch for.

Omg, that's insane, and you're on a lower floor (I'm judging from the tower beside you), just imagine what is was like on the top floor? Weren't you scared? Sounds like a wooden ship, but sounds like it's about to crack! I love skyscrapers, been fascinated with them all my life, I'm in Toronto so we don't have the amazing heights you do in Dubai, but I have been in the CN Tower Skypod, the highest observation deck in North America, during 100km/h winds. I had to leave, I got sea sick! That bloody tower rocks like you wouldn't believe! Hard to believe a concrete structure that old and tall, doesn't snap with a 5 foot sway either way. I've never been back there since, yet I see it from my balcony every day (I'm only on the 29th floor, quite low even by Toronto standards). No way I could live with that, but cheers to you guys, it's a gorgeous tower to live in, which I'd love to visit one day!

Bro just imagine it starts tilting towards one side

Metal fatigue from pushing and pulling will cause cracks and ripps on metal . laws of physics never lie

Imagine being part of the construction crew

That's crazy. I understand it was meant to sway, but you think they would've developed some way of keeping down the acoustics/sound of the swaying, getting rid of the creaking as much as possible. Maybe they did, but that is pretty damn loud.

If I have a house in that building. I'm sleeping in a hotel during monsoon.

That is nightmare fuel

They'd have to pay me to live there

I wonder what would happen if one of the beams actually broke. Once they find out would they have everybody evacuate? Would one beam snap lead to many other beam snaps? Also if it collapsed would it collapse on itself or would it fall over on its side? Super scary man.

I dreamed i was in a tall tower and its shaking... really anxiety to me never could live in that height

Hey mate, thanks for your video. I also experience with this sound in my highrise apartment in Sydney. I thought it was ghost or from next door. It just a typical thing for skyscraper

The structural design of Burj s such that there wont be a big sway as in the case f a square skyscraper.. Vortices formed around the building cannot exert identical pressure on the sidewalls resulting in breaking down of the harmonic resonance that could have generated had the building been a square structure!!!

Sounds like the gentle rocking of a ship. Skyscrapers are supposed to move.

The building is gonna collapse one day...

I would love this feeling falling asleep at night. :)

WTF?!?! And you're supposed to be able to SLEEP THROUGH THAT RACKET?!?! PHUCK NO!!!

The swaying is normal for that height, Burj Khalifa is built to be able to sway to up to 6 degrees.

I wish this went on longer, and glad I wasn't up there lol!

A lot of plaster, gypsum, plates, pins, screws, hinges, lockers, doors, windows, cabinets, etc, the last thing susceptible to make noise is the structure of a building like that...

I wondered what that sound was I didn’t read the title properly

Sounds like the Titanic sinking

Imagine if it snaps

Wait until you see Neom in a storm

You should wear parachute at all times. Just in case, you know...

Sleeping on a Navy ship is very unsettling especially waking up being thrown into your hurricane straps because the ship is rocking so bad. Seeing this and being that high up, I wouldn’t be able to sleep one night in there comfortably.

I live in a 2 story frame house built in 2004. When it's very windy here in the Midwest my house creaks and moans just a little. In a tornado this place is bye bye.

I don't believe this building has any active or even passive dampening, does it? Anyone know?

I live at a height of 25 meters and I'm scared of a storm 😂😂😂

They should find a way to silence those noises

That creaking Lol that’s freaky...

I think the last thing I would do, is look down. lol

This would terrify me, I have a phobia of being indoors what should be a secure structure and it moving and swaying, I have that same feeling on cruise ships.

To be honest that would probably make me sleepy. I don’t know why but the noise makes me tired, lol. Plus I love the wind.

i dont understand peoples fascination with actually living in skyscrapers..fires,earthquakes, pilots making mistakes..cant relax on your own grass under a tree...

that's fricking scary

really cool ❤

no damn way all that working back and forth for years eventually something's going to give. its like taking a thin piece metal you can bend by hand and do it back and forth until it breaks .

The description says no, he can only hear wind.

It’s just the sound of steel beams bending. You want to live high in the sky this is the price. Concrete makes no noise when it’s windy, but it cracks😊

I thought it'd be chill up there during the recent storm

that noise wouldn't make me feel calm

Uh uh. NO! NAH!

during my visit to Dubai few years ago i noticed that the quality of construction in dubai is not good .

The swaying, while creepy, is actually what prevents the building from collapsing. If it did not sway in the wind, it would topple. By the way, all tall skyscrapers sway, they just don't usually make this noise. You cannot feel it sway.

My worst nightmare

omg! did you manage to sleep?

The problems arent the noises.. the problem is when you have noises and you realise that you are at 80th floor..😮😮

Maybe you could get a ball and put it on the floor. It may move back and forth. Just a thought. How high up were you anyway?

I'd be calling for an elevator just about then.

I'll take a unit on level 1 please. Stuff the view!

Scary !!

People - “wow it’s really high” Engineers - “oh it’ll sway every now and then” Me - Zoom im out “ 🤦‍♂️

To the people comparing the building to American skyscrapers, Yes it's a similar experience. The building was design and built by an American firm to American standards. Same experience

I'd be all "FUCK THIS, I'M OUT"

Wonder if they could feel it moving.

I could never live in there.

That would get annoying. Can you actually feel the building swaying?

The tipy top sways about 6 feet.

Even the dog is concerned!

I cant believe it rained. Dubai? What rains like once every five years? That cracking is from the swaying messin up the mosaic glass tiles they have in restrooms.

WE HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED!

his floor is not swaying, 30 percent of them too if the building is built with steel and not concrete, it is made that way so it can sway up to 6 feet. the sound ur hearing is probably the sound of the vibrations traveling through

Feet where made for the earth... ego's are made to fall from the sky

Nightmare fuel. 100% pure unadulterated nightmare fuel.

How on earth can you sleep with those cracking noises?

i love that

I'd shit my pants just hearing that cracking noise..

What floor was this on?

Can somebody suggest any journals/writings with reliable indications/discutions about this structure noise?

Doesn't it have mass dampers to prevent this kind of swaying ?

This guy films school fights

a view to die for

I hear a baby and some creaking!

Ah the sound of millions of $$$$ :D #burjkhalifa #dubai

What if lightning came in from the window. 😳

I'm sure it's engineered to withstand storms. That being said I wouldn't live there.

Someone should wash the windows there.

is nice do you have a flat in that building ..

too high WAAAAAAAAAY too high

That sound is swaying

sounds like a million bolts getting stressed

Id be thinking about how its built in sand.

It's a show piece.. You're not supposed to go inside 🤣