The Sky Tower is located in Auckland, New Zealand and was completed in August 1997. It is 328 meters tall, making it the tallest structure in the country. The Sky Tower was constructed using high performance concrete and steel and can withstand winds up to 125 mph and earthquakes up to 40 kilometers. It cost $76 million NZ dollars to build and took 2 years and 9 months to construct.

1. Sky Tower
By Michael Li & Callum Bennie

2. Where is it
• The Sky tower was made in Auckland and
was built on the 16th of august one day
later it was released to the crowd.
Construction
• The tower was built by architect Craig
Craig Moller, structural engineer Beca
Group, developer Harrah’s entertainment,
main contractor Fletcher construction

3. Innovative
• The tower is Auckland’s primary FM radio
transmitter and it’s second major terrestrial
television transmitter.
• The towers used for telecommunications
and broadcasting. With Auckland's
peering exchange and tourism

4. Materials
• High performance concrete, toughened
steel, reinforced concrete , reinforced
steel, high strength concrete, 600 tonnes
of structural steel
• (good info. The sky tower can withstand
125mph of wind and can stay undamaged
from and 40 kilometre earthquake!)

5. Interesting Info
• The Sky Tower was 50 million US dollars and 76 million
NZ dollars.
• It took 2 years and 9 months to build the Sky Tower!!
• The Sky Tower is 328 metres tall and it is the 28th tallest
tower is the world.
• Thomas Dold from Germany broke the record fastest run
up the Sky Tower, the time was an epic 4 minutes and
53 second!.
• There are 1267 steps from the base of Sky Tower to the
Sky Deck!
• The Sky Tower consists of 15000 cubic metres of
concrete.