Burj Dubai update
February 5, 2008
Today, Emaar Properties PJSC realeased a construction update about the Burj Dubai, the centrepiece of their flagship project, the AED 73 billion (US$20 billion) Downtown Burj Dubai. The Burj Dubai’s height is now 604,9m and construction is taken place at level 159. With that height, the Burj Dubai is taller than Taipei 101 (508 metres) in Taiwan and CN Tower (553.33 metres) in Toronto, Canada.
More than 5,000 consultants and skilled professional workers are employed on-site at the tower. However, there has been points of interrogation in the past about living standards of Dubai’s loanworkers. Journalists declared that construction workers work long days with no day of rest, earning meager wages (Dubai doesn’t have a minimum wage system) that may be withheld or unpaid altogether.
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