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The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is known for being the world’s tallest building. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, or just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 223 m spire) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world since its topping out in 2009, supplanting Taipei 101, the previous holder of that status.[1]

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The Burj Khalifa is featured in Home Wrecked Home.

It was introduced in 10 years after people when the tallest home on Earth is no exception to the struggle against the returning wrath of nature, The show gave information that it when it was completed in 2010, it became the world's tallest skyscraper and it's home to over 1,000 private apartments with some as high as the 108th floor. Travis Taylor provide information stating that it is over 2,700 feet tall, twice the height of the Empire State Building, and the building can be seen over 95 kilometers away.

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The bucket machine break loose.

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The bucket machine swan dives.

The show continues that the building is in desperate need of bath in a humid, salt drenched land before explaining that in the time of humans, bucket machines weighing 13 tons were used to wash the exterior in a desperate race to prevent corrosion from Dubai's dense salty humidity. Without people, it is dangling hundreds of feet in the air and were never used to scrubbed the building for a decade. Steven S. Ross stated that the bucket machines are suspended by cables and are potential point of failure especially if they're filled with fluid. He also stated that the machines are very heavy and the cables would fail over 5-10 years. The show continues on the fate of the bucket machines when one of it breaks loose causing it to swan dives 2,000 feet to the desert below. It crash lands in a former area for a carpark and a small plantation of palm trees.

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The Burj Khalifa leans.

The fate of Burj Khalifa is revealed in 250 years after people. While it still towers nearly half a mile above the desert, sandstorms and ocean humidity have shredded the exterior, revealing a towering skeleton quaking in the wind. Tanya Komas stated that larger wind gusts would stress the building causing cracks to open up. The show then ask a critical question whether the column of the building top or bottom would fail first before Tanya Komas states that the lower area of the building have a lot of stress due to being subject to the corrosive environment next to the salt water, and as concrete cracks and becomes stressed, it became a potential for the collapse at its connection at the base. The show then continues, showing the final moments of the Burj Khalifa with a huge sandstorm blows into Dubai from the desert, causing the bottom column to break off and the base to fail following the 'largest building collapse the planet has ever seen', with the top of the Burj Khalifa breaks off before landing into the desert floor causing damage to the surrounding areas.

Trivia[]

  • The bird's eye view of the Burj Khalifa in 250 years shown no sandstorm blowing/forming on the left side of the structure, but it suddenly appears when the scenes are switch back to the collapse sequence, another error also happen with the bottom left being empty initially but was filled with buildings that is duplicated from the right afterwards. It could also be an oversight.

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