Discover five fun and lesser-known facts about the Burj Khalifa, from its record-breaking construction to its unique design ...

Otis elevators are in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building at 2,722 ft. Image © Emaar properties. But it was Otis' elevator that would allow for ...

A stunning addition to the Middle East skyline, the new Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates stands more than 2,700 feet high and features a sophisticated security management system developed ...

At the heart of the Burj Khalifa's engineering success was also its innovative structural system: the buttressed core. “The core is an irregular hexagon, torsionally stiff like an axle.

Churbuck visited the skyscraper in 2011 with her dad, and took what she described as the “very fast” elevator to the 148th floor, one of the two observation decks at Burj Khalifa.