Construction to Begin Next Month on New World’s Tallest Building
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia—Construction of Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower, which will become the world’s tallest building upon completion, is set to begin in Jeddah next month. Above-ground work on the project is set to start on April 27. It is estimated that construction will take 63 months, with the project to be completed sometime in 2018. The developer, Jeddah Economic Company, has not publicized the precise height of the tower, other than that it will eclipse Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest in the world. The tower is reportedly planned to be around 3,200 ft (1,000 m) tall. The original planned height for the building was reportedly 1.6 km, just short of one mile. However, the geology of the area proved unsuitable for a tower of that height.
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