The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai is a man-made archipelago built in the shape of a palm tree. It was an audacious engineering project that took over 8 years to complete. To build the massive artificial island, engineers had to overcome many challenges like stabilizing the sandy seabed, withstanding violent storms, and preventing stagnant water. They utilized advanced technologies and expertise from around the world. By compacting the island's base and adding openings to the breakwater, they ensured the structure could withstand earthquakes. Once stabilized, over 40,000 workers constructed the infrastructure to form an entire city with homes, hotels, shops, and amenities. When completed, the Palm Jumeirah had increased Dubai

1. PALM JUMEIRAH
Wonderful and Audacious Project of the Globe

2. Correct Resources
The 6th ‘M’
Engineering
A summary on how this audacious project came into
existence by utilizing the:

3. The 6th ‘M’:
MANAGEMENT
Effective Utilization of
Resources to ACHIEVE
Business Objectives.

4. 5 Important Resources for any Business:5
M’s
Man
Material
MachineMoney
Market
5 M’s
A resource is a source or supply from which
benefit is produced.
For any Business,
there should be
the right innovations,
and these 5M’s are
important for the
overall achievement
of innovations.
+ 6th M

5. PALM
JUMEIRAH:
THE MAN-MADE ARTIFICIAL
ISLAND
• DUBAI : Stretching 5 1/2 kms from the Arabian
Gulf lies the most Audacious Engineering Project the
world has ever seen.
Palm Jumeirah is so vast it can be seen
from Space.

6. PURPOSE:
• Middle East, Dubai :
Jewel of the Arab World.
• Richest places built on
the Profit of its Oil
Reserves.
• Problem on the Horizon:
Oil Run Out.
• Disaster for the
Economy.
• New Source of
Income.

7. VISION:
• $2 Billion Plan – to save his
country.
• Ordered his Kingdom to
transform into Worlds No. 1
Luxury Tourist Destination.
• 5th M : Market
• Perfect Spot – Mass Tourism
• 5 million Tourists Annually
• Triple it to 15 million.
• 4th M : Money

8. OBJECTIVE
• Building a CITY at SEA.
• Covered with – Luxury Villas,
Apartment and Town homes,
Entertainment Areas,
Shopping Malls,
Restaurants, etc..

9. PROBLEM
• Coastline of Dubai –
72 kms long
• No enough space
– for extra 10 million
people

10. SOLUTION
• Extend Coastline
• Task – Nakheel
Constructions (held by
government of Dubai)
• Circular Island –
Increases Coastline by
7kms

11. HIGHER VISION
• Circular Island – extra 7
kms
• Why not 70 kms?
• Back to Drawing Board
• Prince works on Design- to
increase beachfront

12. THE DESIGN
• Paradise Island – shape
of a Palm Tree with
Crescent shape
Breakwater
• Coastline – Increased by
56 kms
• 9 times more than
circular island.

13. THE CHALLENGE
• To Blend with surroundings –
island must be entirely made of
natural materials, SAND and
ROCKs.
• Engineers must race against
time and battle constantly
against nature
byearthquakes, violent
storms and erosion from
the sea.
• Every day, engineers tried to
prevent the destruction of what

14. Project
Timeline
1st Stage
2000: Project
Announcement
2001-03:
Breakwater
Construction
2nd Stage
2003: Land
Reclamation
Completion
2004-06:
Constructing City
3rd Stage
2006: Partial
Completion
2008: Final
Completion

15. Breakwater Construction:
Man
• Coastal Researchers and Environmentalists
• Experts in Land Reclamation – The Dutch Team
• Developers - Nakheel Properties and Project Manager – Robert Berger
• Engineers – Best from Northern Europe and Holland
• Laborers – All over the globe
Materials
• Sand - 94 million cu. Mts.
• Rock - 5.5 million cu. Mts.
Machines
• Barges, Tugboats, Dredgers, Heavy Land based Machine, Floating
Cranes, etc
• Satellite
• GPS Technology

16. Coastal Research Team
• The Arabian Gulf: Perfect place to build this
mega structure.
• 160kms wide : too short
• 30m deep : too shallow
• Final Calculations : Breakwater must be 3m
high above the waves and 11 ½ kms long
For catastrophic waves

17. August 2001: Beginning
• Massive island is being
constructed out at sea, using
only natural materials, sand and
rock.
• Water causes erosion of sand
and rock..
• Every day, engineers were trying
to prevent the destruction of
what they built.
• They've only 2 years to build this
massive 11 ½ kms sea wall.

18. • 1st step: Build up the Sea
Floor.
• Machines required :
9barges, 15
tugboats, 4dredgers, 30
heavy land-based
machines and 10 floating
cranes.
Barges
Tugboats
Dredgers
heavy land
based
machines

19. • 3 massive dredgers take
up a thin layer of sand
from the barren sea bed
nearby.
• Dump the sand in a
layer up to 7.4 mts thick.
• This is done while the
sea is at its calmest.

20. To keep it in place, barge-loads of rubble are dropped on top of this.
This bed of rock will raise the breakwater from 4m below sea level to 3m above.

21. Need of Rocks:
• Sourcing Rock - blasted out of the
mountains.
• Rocks are piled onto barges and
shipped to the construction site.
• Each Rock - 6 tons.
• 40,000 tons of rocks are delivered per
day.
• The density, size, strength and
permeability of each boulder is crucial.
• Positioned by cranes, each rock must
interlock with the next to withstand the
full force of the sea.
• This stone wall must last for centuries.

22. Constant Check:
• Breakwater is in the right
place and the rocks are stable.
• Send in divers to pinpoint and
check every meter of it.
• A detailed study of the
breakwater rocks below the
water is noted.
• Every 27 mts, a diver surfaces
to record the location of the
rocks they're checking.
• The reading is taken from a
man based on land.

23. April 2002: Need for Sand
• Desert sand - wrong material,
too fine particles to cling
together.
• Sand: coarse, packs densely and
is more resistant to wave impact.
• Sand found at 6 miles out at sea.
• Pumped through a pipe and
sprayed into place at 10 mps.
• This process is called
Rainbowing.
• The rainbowed sand builds into a
sandbar, rising up to 4mt out of
the water.

24. The Fear: Is the Palm going in shape?
• Doubt on construction
- Dubai has a trick 676
kms up in space.
• Access to the only
privately-owned
satellite in the world.
• The satellite, IKONOS,
orbits the Earth, taking
pictures that prove the
island is totally on
track.

25. August 2002: Mould Palm Shape Accurately
• Shaping Accurately – using
state-of-the-art technology.
• Team of five men - walks
the perimeter of the island
every day as it takes shape.
• Heavy packs strapped at
back, these mobile
receivers create a grid
reference for the island.

26. GPS Technology:
• Receiving signals from
space and a fixed
position on land, the
height and position of
the sand bars is
recorded.
• With these coordinates,
dredgers can sail into
the exact position and
rainbow the sand with
pinpoint accuracy.

27. October 2002: Water Stagnant
• Sea not circulating
around.
• Tides are not flushing
the system properly.
• Clean water is not
moving fast enough
round the inner
waterway.
• The water is in serious
danger of becoming
stagnant.

28. A Small Change:
• 2 Breaks in sea wall.
• 2 four-lane bridges link the
sections of the breakwater.
• 2 openings - enough fresh
flowing water can get into
system.
• Twice a day, the tide enters
the structure, pushing
clean water around the
fronds.
• 2 weeks - the entire
waterway is replenished.

29. Testing Water
• Environmentalists - test
the water every day to
check that the system is
working.
• The return of algae and
stagnant water is
something they can't
allow.
• With the water quality
assured, the project is
back on track.

30. August 2003: Breakwater Completed
• The island reclamation
is finished.
• Palm Island has 3 major
parts : The
Crescent, The Trunk
and The Fronds.

31. Long Way to Go
• Stage 1 is only
completed.
• Now to fulfill the
crown prince's
dream.
• This sand island must
support an entire city.

32. December 2003: Wake-up Call
• Bam in Iran - earthquake
measuring a massive 6.6
• Multiple quakes hit Dubai
480 kms across the
Arabian Gulf.
• It's a wake-up call to the
palm island project.
• If the epicentre hit Dubai,
it could spell disaster.

33. Liquefaction
• Lateral forces of an earthquake can
make the island disappear.
• This terrifying phenomenon is called
liquefaction.
• It happens when a quake shakes the
Earth's surface, causing sand particles
to move.
• As the sand compacts, it pushes the
water between the particles
upwards, making the ground liquefy.
• It means the island would sink back
into the sea.

34. Strong Base:
• Support this city at sea.
• Before any houses can be built,
Island must be made strong
enough to prevent it from
liquefaction.
• The engineers work out, they need
to compact a layer of sand 12 mts
deep, too deep to compact by
normal road roller.
• The only solution is a process
called Vibrocompaction.

35. January 2004: Vibrocompaction
• 15 machines - to firm up the land.
• Probes drill over 200,000 holes
into the ground across the surface
of the island.
• High-pressure water and air drives
each probe deep into the earth.
• This shaft then vibrates, shaking
the ground around it.
• The earth is compacted.
• As the sand compacts and
sinks, more sand is poured in until
the area around the probes is rock
solid.
• It takes the team 8 months to
stabilize the 17 palm fronds, but it
has to be done to ensure the
safety of 120,000 people who will
live and work here.

36. March 2004: Building Site
• Thousands of trucks
and cranes, tons of
supplies, and 2,000
labourers descend on
the island.
• This is the most
complicated part of the
project, the installation
of the infrastructure.
• Gas pipes, electricity
cables, water supply
and buildings.
• In two years, they must
build an entire city at
sea.

37. January 2005: Critical Stage
• Now engineers turn their
attention from sand and rock
to concrete, glass and steel.
• 850 buses ferry the 40,000-
strong Asian workforce on and
off the island in two 12-hour
shifts. They'll work in gruelling
temperatures of up to 48
degrees Celsius.
• As well as thousands of people,
millions of tons of concrete
and steel are shipped in from
around the world and driven
onto the palm.
• Fifty-one different contractors
build houses, roads, canals,
shopping centres, sewage
plants, and each part of the
jigsaw must meet the next
perfectly.

38. August 2006: The First Release
• The 3rd stage of the Project.
• When the palm was first
released to the public, all the
houses were sold in just 3
days.
• The most expensive go for
$1.2 million.
• David Beckham and the
England football team are
amongst the owners.
• There are over 1800 villas still
to build on the palm fronds.
• The deadline of 2008 should
be met.

39. 20th November 2008: Grand Opening

40. The Palm
Island has 3
major parts:
the trunk,
the fronts
and
the crescent.

41. The Trunk: The
trunk consists
of many
shoreline
apartments,
2 major
roads, bridges
and monorail
at its centre.

42. Trunk : 8,000 Apartment Complexes

43. Monorail

44. The 17 Fronts: These
are leaf shaped part
of the island
consisting thousands
of villas on the two
sides with private
beach and a road in
the middle.

45. 17 Fronts - 8,000 Villas

46. The Crescent: It
is the curved
shape around the
palm island
whose total
length is of
12kms. The
famous hotel
ATLANTIS is
located at the
middle of the
crescent.

47. Hotel Atlantis

48. Interior of Atlantis

50. Jumeirah Zabeel Saray

51. 220 Shopping malls and Restaurants

52. 36-storey Palm Tower

53. Artificial Coral Reef : House to Many new aquatic
species

54. • The palm island puts DUBAI on the MAP.
• So far, the palm island is completely SOLD OUT.
• The island stands here against the nature, proving
that engineers can and will continually push the
boundaries of engineering technology, and how a
perfect management and effective utilization of all
resources can create wonders in world.
• The palm island is truly an awesome mega
structure the world have ever seen.

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