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PEOPLE FLOW |
The Shard
306 m, London
Q1 Tower
323 m,
Gold Coast
Makkah Royal
Clock Tower Hotel
601 m, Mecca
Princess Tower
413 m, Dubai
A Megatall building
is over 600 meters
in height
2
megatall
Buildings in
the world
A Supertall building
is over 300 meters
in height
71
supertall
Buildings in
the world
770
200+ meter
Buildings in
the world
2788
150+ meter
Buildings in
the world
We can likely
expect the
world’s first
kilometer-tall
building as
well as the
completion of
at least eight
megatalls by
2020. That’s
double the
height of a
supertall!
Trump International
Hotel & Tower
423 m, Chicago
taLL tEsting
There’s no tower poking out of the landscape
at KONE’s high-rise elevator laboratory site in
Lohja, Finland. So where is the world’s tallest
elevator test shaft? Deep underground – well
below sea-level, in fact.
The Tytyri test site was opened in 1998,
adjacent to a limestone mine that has oper-
ated there for over 100 years. It remains the
only elevator testing facility where travel dis-
tances exceeding 200 meters can be tested
in action. The shaft itself is 350 meters long,
enabling a travel distance of 317 meters.
The maximum speed that can be tested at
Tytyri is a whopping 17 m/s – that’s equal to
whizzing past four floors in just one second.
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