Jeddah Tower : The Engineering Secrets Behind the World's tallest Tower 

I hate when people count antennas and spires as height. Doesn't count to me.

Marvelous work of engineering. What's the point? Are they running out of space in Jeddah? Ego? Bragging rights? So you have the tallest building in the world. So what? Does that make life better for the average Saudi citizen? "Since my country built Tower X, my marriage has improved, my children are doing better in school, my company is more profitable, I've lost weight and my cholesterol levels are down." /s

Seems really bizarre to call it a 1km Tower when there is a literally empty spire uninhabited the height of the Eiffel tower stuck on the top. My opinion is that the tallest building should be based on the highest point at which people can go (Residents, Office workers, Staff etc)

I'm glad they started work again

Such a vanity project. There's not even a lack of land necessitating a skyscraper. There's empty land around it as far as your eyes can see LMFAO.

Nice video by the way. Well detailed. Great narration too.

the tower looks so bizarre without a skyline around it

Politics/corruption/views on displays of wealth aside, this is really exciting. As someone who is very into architecture and skyscrapers, I’d dream of visiting this one day if it was completed.

There was this famous hadith regarding the signs of end time by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) “you shall see barefoot, & penniless shepherds vying in constructing high buildings.”(Sahih Muslim) This hadith describes people who become rich all of a sudden and then build not for need but only in competition.

Mark my words - soon the Dubai Creek Tower will also resume construction. This is just a big dick competition.

1:26 - - *STABILITY:* 1:40 - - Height = 3 Eiffel towers 1:43 - - Weight = 900,000 tons (= Golden Gate Bridge) 2:45 - - Footings = 270 pillars (high performance concrete); 2:52 - - Depth = 164 ft to 360 ft deep footings. In contrast: 3:04 - - Empire State Building = 56 ft deep footings; 3:11 - - Burj Kalifa = 164 ft deep footings 3:19 - - 1st phase (foundation) = 6 months (100 workers; 24/6)

This time last century Empire State Building was set to hold record tallest building for 40 yrs

Wonderful elocution and very informative.

Sucks that a huge top section of the tower will be completely uninhabitable. I wonder if it will even be considered as the tallest habitable building.

So, when the tower is finished, they will invite all the journalists in to visit, BUT, will the journalists be seen leaving the building?

You can still pump the concrete up if you pump it to another pump that is placed higher up.

Thats just pure madness

Finally! I thought Jeddah Tower would never be finished!

Excellent factual video Keep them coming please!!!

Will the building have a functional sewage system?

Another issue with these megatalls is getting the units sold/leased/rented. Many of these skyscrapers are mostly empty due to lack of demand.

Finish this up!! 👊

The Jeddah tower was not meant to be taller than 1 km, but 1 km is still very very tall!!!

The return of the Jeddah

The thought of having to evacuate from such a structure gives me the screaming meemies. Very low likelyhood, extreme consequence.

The weight of hubris required to reach 1 km has not yet been calculated.

Back in the 1800s the height of building was determined by the available technology. Then Otis invented safe elevators and buildings got much taller. At the end of your video your said basically that we've reached height limits due to spiralling costs. I'd hazard a guess that these are limits set by current technology. Don't underestimate mankind's ability to overcome obstacles. More efficient designs and technologies will come along to continue our instinctual exploration of what is possible.

This was a very good and informative video and let me clarify some updates regarding the project :- 1-The tower is the main part of a 5,000,000m2 project called "Jeddah Economic City" which will also include residential neighborhoods, schools, businesses and shopping areas, a canal, etc. 2-Electrical substation is done also the main infrastructure i.e roads, electrical and communications works and etc. 3-14 companies across the world will send their bids by the end of this year and hopefully construction will resume in 2024. 4-Jeddah will not just have this tower also another 432m spiral skyscraper is under construction called "Diamond Tower" which will be the 3rd tallest residential building in the world. 5-Let's not forget that Jeddah will have the longest canal in the world

wow this is crazy

One of the questions that the Archangel Jibril (‘alayhis salam) posed to Nabi ﷺ was, ‘Inform me of the signs of Qiyamah’. In response, Nabi ﷺ said: _“…And you will see barefoot naked poor shepherds/Bedouins vying with one another in the construction of buildings…”_ (Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 1)

If you build with energy efficiency in mind, you do not build a tower...

Humpety Dumpety's law: Just a matter of time and these "tower of babels" will all come tumbling down.

They are crazy.

Realy I like this video

I hope it has a "dumping system", unlike the khalifa (about the dumping system, i forgot how was it called)

If you could launch a 100 thousand pound steel ball into space with a tether from the roof of the building it could stabilize it but I don't think the steel cable has been invented yet

They should get rid of that bloody helipad!

Dangerous on earthquake prone,,, wonderful project 😍👌👍

nice ai

Surely after such a long interruption one can not immediately continue with the construction. As the existing concrete had years to cure; how would the cure rate to the newly poured affect the building?

There is no economic rationale, only ego.

any idea on how they will build the sewage infrastructure for this huge tower?

I’m happy that they continued

Amazing. Can you please tell me which are the softwares uses for making this kind of construction phasing animation. I am very much eager to learn.

For the sake of human ingenuity I hope this project gets completed

I have to believe they will lower their ambitions with this monster given all the delays.

What about the sewage, and the drinking water both significant issues?

The Effel Tower is made with wrought iron, which is an ancestor of steel. If the top part of this tower is not going to be habitable (massive cheat!), might as well make it a lattice structure to cut down on the bending moment at the base on windy days.

You have that super high observation deck, but what is it looking out on? Jedda is not pretty.

This might be a stupid question but if the best pumps available can only lift concrete 500 m, why couldn't you just install a second pump when you get that high? I assume there's a reason why not or they probably would have done it.

Finally... Can't imagine they could build NEOM THE LINE which is probably 1000 times bigger.

This iconic structure is a behemoth of its own structure when it comes to skyscrapers , miraculous architectural marvel and jaw dropping human ingenuity congrats to Saudi Arabia

I hope someone builds a Siff tower to take the tallest building title.

Why a tripod shape at it's base ? Wouldn't a quad-pod shape act as a better anchor ?

110 meter deep piles, wow.

a similar tower will be built on the Florida island, Key West

That’s quite a bit of money to pour into this structure. I don’t know if they will get their money back from it.?

I got the feeling that this tower will never build 100% don't matter what

The floor space will be very small for the majority of floors. The design is mediocre.

4:20 For the part where pumps can only push concrete up to 500 meters, why not make a special area that contains another pump at the 500 meter mark to then be able to pump concrete up another 500 meters??? Or you could modify a tower crane to have the pump on the top instead of the crane part. With two such modified crane sections you could have one set at 500m and the next one set at 1000m to give you a pump height of 1500m. Now I don't know what the total capacity of the tower crane box sections are, nor do I know how much the concrete itself would weigh in a pump line going up, but you could anchor the line to the building and only have it curve out to the pump on the tower then curve back to a anchored section on the building again. That would limit the weight on the tower crane...

If a second pump is installed after 500 meters. That is, when it reaches 500 meters, the concrete from the 1st pump will be transferred to the 2nd pump.

Glad I'm paying almost $7.00 for a gallon of gas!

Many skyscrapers in Victoria Australia have piles going down 100mtrs, with a diameter of 1500mm not unusual. Nothing new.

I have heard that waste elimination at the Burj is a problem requiring hundreds of trucks a day. Is this true?

First tower in gcc countries was Kuwait towere 1977

Is it taller than the Oblisco in egypt?

costing 1.2 billion dollars or 43* less than twitter 💀

Sometimes i have nigthtmares about the burj khalifa, something is wrong with the wifi at the upper levels, and they require me in person to fix it, but once i get there, the building is swaing from one side to another, everyone acts like this is normal, some furniture breaks the window and fall, i am walking on all fours trying to hold myself in place, everyone there is calling me a pussy, i end up failing my mission.

350m spire? sheeeesh

How stable will it be if a big earthquake hits.(sand maynot be stable)

I should hope so as petrol prices are massive!! They may as well be spending their disgusting and immoral profits from the little guy on something.

very impressive statistics, but can it withstand the impact of a fully loaded, fully fueled Boeing aircraft?

Multi-talented man is Adrian Smith. Architect - and guitarist for Iron Maiden.

9:12 There is no fast reachable limit if the foundation is bigger.Propably over 3km

All of these mega tall towers that get built are actually just huge ego prizes! Who can outdo the other guy/country! It’s all about pride. Bragging rights. It is. Truly. I know that the Arabs are always trying to prove to the world what they can do. In a way it’s a lack of self confidence that causes them to think this way. I lived in the Middle East. So I know. Plus in Asia too they do this. Especially in China. I lived there too. Saw them always trying to build tall buildings with some having wild designs. Again, it’s about who can outdo the other guy. Country. Then having those bragging rights. Humans!!!

Not gonna hold my breath.

That is a real idiocy. It will ruin their kingdom and people's life. Who would be willing to live or rent in the building?

I'd like to see this as fast as possible. Yes. 1 km of height for approximatively 900 000 000 kg of weight. I am ready. And you ?

Im impressed dubi didn't go NOOO WE WILL BUILD A 5 MILE TALL BUILDING.

work has not restarted. the conglomerate responsible has put out a request for a new builder, architect etc... to possibly restart building next year. as of now, it's only a press release

Of course no one is considering the charged nature of matter in an electric field, as it reached towards the ionosphere.

0:17 - 1:25 I don't understand, I would assume before constructing any tall building ( especially one that tall ) there would be a massive amount of calculations and planning. Surely there would have to be a at least a team of engineering/material experts who all independently approved the schematics/plans before they even started digging foundations? The way the narrator reads it almost seems like they started building it and after reaching 500 meters they went "hang on, are we sure this thing isn't going to collapse itself if we keep putting more weight on top?"

عز يا مال العز

Sounds like a taller Millennium Tower in SF. Just a bunch of huge egos.

2:33 the Jeddah soil is made up of *Fryable* limestone?!

Another question is who will buy these beyond expensive homes?. Saudi is not as liberal as UAE and thus Westerners might refrain from investing.

Reminds me of the monorail episode in The Simpsons. A useless ego project.

What a great thing it is to go to parts amd heights unknown the perfect example of ghe human need to do the unthinkable to do what others would not do to go to those unknowns and look tgem rigt in the face..and suspend construction indefinitely

Imagine they let trees grow big and not just there egos

Will this one have a sanitation system, burg kalifa does not. The shit is taken away by trucks daily.

Yay!!!

I'm so happy to continue again the best tower in the world

Yeah but it’s in Saudi-Arabia, no one wants to live there voluntarily

Good to know that they are resuming

Okay let its

I think that the economic corridor project from India to Europe is very special, but what is most distinctive and most important is that Saudi Arabia wants to once again be a leader in clean energy, and this will address the problem of global warming in Europe by supplying Europe with all types of clean energy. 5% of Saudi Arabia’s territory can produce solar energy sufficient for all... the world Saudi Arabia wants to build the world's largest project for green nitrogen and produce 11 million barrels of blue ammonia in the Jafoura field, which is rich in laurel fields. As well as the abundant availability of uranium minerals in Saudi Arabia and its plan to manufacture yellow cake to sell in nuclear power plants to produce electricity. I think it is a good opportunity for European countries that want to benefit from the continuity of generating electricity from nuclear power plants, but with the ongoing military coups in Africa, the continuity of the flow of uranium from Africa cannot be trusted, but Europe can be confident of obtaining uranium from Saudi Arabia and politically stable Central Asia. As well as Saudi Arabia’s distinguished location in the production of wind energy, etc. All of this is useful in the future for exporting energy to Europe I believe that it is a dream project for Europe to obtain clean and sustainable energy to address the problem of global warming. I believe that it is an opportunity for Saudi Arabia to be a leadership partner in addressing the problem of global warming and diversifying its energy economies to ensure the sustainability of exporting the energy mix to countries of the world instead of losing oil due to production intensity. The energy production mix is ​​the most realistic solution to address the problem of global warming as well as ensuring the sustainability of energy production. If oil-producing countries move away from investing in the oil industry, we may see an economic collapse in some industrialized countries. Perhaps the world’s biggest challenges are how to benefit from energy with strong, sustainable production that does not affect the environment.

Cont wait to see when they gonna finished the project Insha Allah(God’s willing). Too long hearing about this skyscraper going to be tallest in the world. Come on crown prince Muhammad of saudi finished this Damn Project ha ha.

But remember guys, watch your carbon footprint!

But ... Will it be connected to the sanitary sewer?

I’ll never up in this building, it’s never going to be safe