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How the World's Next Tallest Building Will Be Built

Posted February 23, 2014 2:08 PM

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A crucial step towards building the next tallest building on Earth is underway: Engineers on the Kingdom Tower, a proposed 3,280 foot tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, are beginning tests to figure out how to pump wet concrete more than half a mile into the sky.

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02/24/2014 2:15 AM

From the ground up, most likely.

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02/24/2014 5:59 PM

I'd like to see them build it the way bridges are built - start at each end and work toward the middle.

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02/24/2014 6:17 AM

Gizmodo...

I bet the exact height is 3,280.839895 feet, not less.
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02/24/2014 9:13 AM

Welk, if they've got the gear to pump it up half a mile, then they just need to bring that gear up when they're at that level, and then they're all set.

That gear is too big and bulky? You can only transport something that pumps the concrete five stories? Then after the half-mile point, you set up one of those every five floors as a 'repeater,' problem solved.

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03/01/2014 4:09 PM

I would like to see them build one horizontally!

Or vertically going down would be good too!

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03/03/2014 10:41 AM

"Or vertically going down would be good too!"

Don't they call that a mine?

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