Hello readers, In this presentation, i am sharing Concept & Construction of Palm Island. The following parameters are discussed in the presentation: Where? Why? When? Construction Machinery Construction Steps Conclusion.

1. Concept & Construction of
PALM
ISLAND

2. Things behind it, are as follows…
Where?
Why?
When?
Construction Machineries
Construction Steps
Conclusion

3. WHERE ?
1. The City of Dreams: DUBAI

4. 2. Location

5. WHY?
Dubai is famous for its GOLD & OIL RESERVES.
By 2018, its main income Oil Reserves will get over.
To over come this problem, the Crown Prince
“SHAKE MOHAMED BIN RASHEED AHAMAD”
has a 2 billion dollar plan to convert Dubai into a
luxurious tourist destination.
To put Dubai in map, he had constructed one of the
luxurious hotel, top class golf, race coarse and was
planning for world’s tallest building.
The crown prince idea was to increase the tourism
from 5 million to 15 million.

6.  Dubai's tourism mainly depends upon the coastal area but there was no enough space for
15 million people. So, he decided to construct an island on Persian gulf.
 By the following ways, the formation of Palm Island had got the shape.

7. WHEN?
 World's best engineers were needed for the
project. Dutch, who have increased Holland's
land by 35%. They were booked.
 To blend in with surroundings crown prince
wanted the island to be built only by using sand
and rocks.
 Which is 94 million cubic meter of sand and 5.5
million cubic meter of rocks.
 Hence, The Palm Jumeirah was started on
AUGUST 2001 and crown prince idea was to
finish it by 2006.

8. CONSTRUCTION MACHINERIES
HEAVY LAND BASE MACHINES (30)
DREDGERS (04) BARGES (09)
CRANES (10)
DUMPERS (15)

9. CONSTRUCTION STEPS
Step-1 Estimation of WAVE STRENGTH
Step-2 Construction of BREAKWATER
Step-3 SAND FILLING and COMPACTION
Step-4 Construction of BUILDINGS

10. Step-1 Estimation of WAVE STRENGTH
To estimate the strength of the waves, Research team worked out that Arabian gulf and declared that
Breakwater has to be constructed having height up to 3 m & 11.5 Km long.

11. Dredgers would collect sand from the sea and dump it where break water was to be constructed.
For the construction, 5.5 million cubic meter of rock was needed. They were taken from quarries of
UAE. Each piece of rock weighed about 6 tons which is excavated from 16 quarries across UAE.
Step 2 Construction of BREAKWATER

12. Step 3A SAND FILLING
94 million cubic meter of sand was needed for the construction of this island .

13. Step 3B COMPACTION
 The sand was just sprayed but was not compacted .
 First they thought of Roller compacting later they considered earthquake effect and allowed Vibro
Compaction method.

14. Step-4 Construction of BUILDINGS
By march 2004, Phase 1 was finished and by 2006 the whole construction of the buildings must be done.
Before it was estimated for 60,000 people but later it was made double because of demand.
BEFORE
AFTER

15. CONCLUSION
By this, success of Palm Island the Crown Prince planed for another palm shaped island which is three times
bigger than “PALM JUMEIRAH” and named it as “PALM JEBEL ALI” & constructed the islands which looks like the
world from space and named it was “THE WORLD”.
PALM JEBEL ALI THE WORLD

17. THANK YOU
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