The foundation is supported by 200, five-foot (1.5m) diameter concrete piles for the core tower and 650 concrete piles for the tower's wing sections. As fireworks adorned Burj Khalifa from top to ...

There’s more than 600 deep piles involved in the whole Burj Khalifa project, although the majority hold up the podium complex, with 194 used for the tower itself. Bauer Spezialtiefbau with Middle East ...

weighing more than 110,000 tonnes were used to construct the concrete and steel foundation, which features 192 piles buried more than 50 m (164 ft) deep. Burj Khalifa’s construction will have used 330 ...

Dubai has renamed its new skyscraper, the tallest in the world, the Burj Khalifa, state news agency WAM reported, in a surprise move apparently intended to honor the United Arab Emirates' president.