Fireworks Light Up for the World’s Tallest Tower ‘Burj Khalifa’

With over 10 minutes of great fireworks display, Burj Dubai which was renamed to Burj Khalifa was inaugurated by H.H Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.

Here is a video from CNN of the Burj Khalifa opening day.

After it opening celebration which was 5 hours ago, I still see until now real time search results in google for the term Burj.

And  for TLD for Burj Khalifa as well as from free hosted blogs were all taken just after an hour the tower was renamed.

The Burj Khalifa in numbers

828m - height
57 - number of lifts
169 - number of floors
1,044 - number of apartments
31,400 - tonnes of steel used
330,000  - cubic metres of concrete used
$1.5bn - estimated cost
95 km - the distance it can be seen from
10C - cooler at the top than the bottom
158 - floor where “highest” mosque is planned
76 - floor of “highest” swimming pool
12,000 - number of labourers who toiled
$5 - daily wage of a labourer
$3m - price of a 80th floor one-bedroom apartment in 2008