Dubai-based freezone operator DMCC has announced that the foundation works for the first super tall tower at its Uptown Dubai district have been completed. The construction of the Uptown Dubai ...

There's a long way to go yet, but the project is off to a fine start and its foundations were recently ... the 1,007 m (3,303 ft)-tall Jeddah Tower will likely dwarf both buildings in height ...

When finished, Salesforce Tower will be the tallest ... It took eight iron workers to lift each 45-foot segment into place. That cagework will act as the foundation’s skeleton, but during ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- San Francisco is calling for stricter building safety codes focusing on making high rises safer during earthquakes. The new guidelines, formally known as the Tall ...

The 555-meter-tall ... Tower, in Paris; and the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. Boasting twice the capacity of a conventional elevator – each cabin holds 52 passengers – the tower’s lift directly ...

Then construction of the actual lift began. First, using the rock crusher, they crushed rock at each tower location, mixed cement and built the tower foundations. The lift was designed by Bob Heron ...

At its maximum speed the state-of-the-art lift travels at 18 meters a second. The Shanghai Tower is set to be 632-metre tall, second only to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai which stands at 829.8m.

The National Lift Tower in Northampton has been lit up in red, white and blue to mark 30 years since its official opening by the Queen in 1982. The tower is 127m (416ft) tall and is the UK's only ...