Friday, October 29, 2010

Palms Dubai – New Engineering Wonder

Over one of the most astonishing civil engineering Dubai again an attempt to redefine civil engineering wonders.The three artificial islands, the Palm (consisting of the Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira) launched the world's largest man-islands.More as 1 billion cubic meters of dredged sand and stones are being built used to each these.The reclamation project of the Palm Jebel Ali includes the creation of a 4 km long peninsula, protected by a 200 m wide and built 17 km of breakwaters around the island. 135 million m³ of rock, sand and limestone were reclaimed (dredging part of the Jebel Ali-channel input). There are approximately 5,000,000 cubic meters of rock into the slope protection works.



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