The Makkah Clock Royal Tower Hotel can only be described in superlatives: the tallest hotel, the largest indoor space (1.6 million square meters for the total project), and on the list of tallest buildings, it currently holds second place.
Description
Soaring above the clock is a beautiful glass dome that houses the lunar research center and cosmology center with some of the biggest telescopes in the world.
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Building facts
Year of completion: 2012
Clock tower
Height: 601 m
Floors: 120
Podium
Height: 115 m
Floors: 15
Architect: Dar al-Handasah Shair & Partners
Developer: Saudi Binladen Group
KONE solutions
Clock tower
89 KONE MiniSpace™ elevators
5 KONE MonoSpace® Special elevators
16 KONE extra heavy-duty, high-efficiency Transvario escalators
Podium
75 KONE MiniSpace™ elevators
4 KONE MonoSpace® Special elevators
111 KONE extra heavy-duty, high-efficiency Transvario escalators
Adjacent towers
10 KONE MiniSpace™ elevators
2 Helipad elevators
6 KONE extra heavy-duty, high-efficiency Transvario escalators
Makkah Clock Royal Tower
Makkah Clock Royal Tower
CHALLENGES
SOLUTIONS
To provide a People Flow® solution that allows up to 75,000 people to leave the buildings in 30 minutes or less for prayers five times a day
To provide hundreds of extra heavy-duty escalators to withstand outdoor weather elements
To reduce the environmental footprint of one of the largest structures through KONE equipment
Special design team that met regularly with key stakeholders worldwide
Specially recruited project team who were trained specifically for this undertaking
Massive amounts of equipment to handle People Flow as seen nowhere else in the world
Special group control software with artificial intelligence capabilities to learn and track passenger traffic patterns in order to optimize people flow.
Makkah Clock Royal Tower
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