Suppliers prequalification – Exclusive Resort construction
January 10th, 2010 by admin
First International
appoints
ICONS FZE – Innovative Concepts & Solutions
to carry out pre-qualification of contractors and suppliers for the development, construction and management of a World Class Exclusive and Unique Resort Complex to be built in the United Arab Emirates.
Dream Island
The destination!
For more information please e-mail info@iconsfze.com
Burj Khalifa grand opening – Dubai
January 10th, 2010 by admin
January 2010
Construction Week Online
Ahead of its opening on January 4, Emaar, developer of the Burj Khalifa tower, has released some of the massive numbers and world records that make up the world’s tallest building
- 31,400 – the amount of steel rebar in metric tonnes used in the structure of Burj Dubai
- 28,261– the number of glass cladding panels making up the exterior of tower and its two annexes
- 15,000 – the amount of water in litres collected from the tower’s cooling equipment that will be used for landscaping irrigation
- 12,000 – the numbers of workers on site during peak of construction
- 5,500 – the capacity in kilograms of the tower’s service lift
- 3,000 – the number of underground parking spaces
- 1,044 – the total number of residential apartments inside Burj Dubai
- 900 – the length in the feet of the world’s tallest performing fountain, The Dubai Fountain, that lies at the foot of the tower
- 605 – the vertical height in metres to which concrete was pumped in the construction of Burj Dubai, a world record for concrete pumping
- 504 – the distance traveled, or ‘rise’ in metres of Burj Dubai’s main service lift, the most of any elevator
- 828 The building’s final official height, in metres
- 22,000,000 Number of man hours it took to build the tower
- 5,670,000 Total built up area of the tower, in square feet
- 330,000 Volume of concrete used to build the tower, in cubic metres
- 39,000 Amount of reinforced steel used to build the tower, in metric tonnes
- 103,000 Volume of glass used for exterior façade, in square metres
- 15,500 Volume of stainless steel used for cladding, in square metres
- 12,000 Number of people expected to live and work at Burj Khalifa
- 10 Maximum speed, in metres per second, at which lifts in the Burj travel
- 192 Number of piles that were used in the building’s foundations
Affordable Wound Healing
October 19th, 2009 by admin
October 2009
Shocking News
All wounds can now be healed. Infection is stopped, new skin is sensitive and elastic and scars are reduced. And at a cost that all can afford. This is not magic. The technique uses sound waves called Shock Waves that are also used to break kidney stones. CellSonic Ltd has launched its CellSonic Medical machine at a price about one third of anything similar on the market. This means that patients who were previously left to suffer can now be treated. A treatment takes about ten minutes and can be repeated once a week according to the severity of the wound. For patients undergoing surgery, the treatment can be before, during or after the operation. Plastic surgeons use shock waves to reduce the scars.
The CellSonic Medical also treats sports injuries such as heel spur, tennis elbow and calcified shoulder. Broken bones are healed and there are other amazing applications such as Peyronies disease.
The CellSonic Medical machine has taken six years to develop. By value, it is three quarters British. The design, assembly and testing to the highest ISO standards are done in India from where it is exported world wide. Research into new applications for shock waves continues and CellSonic are working on killing viruses in the body. It is thus ironic that a last minute hold up of the launch of the machine was caused by the swine flu virus hitting the moulding company making a vital new component for the shock head. Whether CellSonic succeeds in hitting viruses in the body remains to be seen but meanwhile millions of people suffering from wounds, including diabetic ulcers which were never healing, can now be cured.
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