![]() In addition the 5-star hotel belonging to the Fairmont chain includes building houses over 800 apartments, a conference centre for 1500 guests, a prayer hall for 3800 believers, a moon observatory and a Museum of Islam. 16 bands of vertical lights will also be beamed 7 miles into the air on special occasions. Royal Mecca Clock Tower is facilitated by 2 million LED lights on the clock face 21,000 white and green lights above the timepiece flash five times a day to signal the call to prayer. Big Ben is facilitated by original gas light each dial is lit by 28 bulbs. The meaning of ‘Big Ben’ "Domine Salvam Fac Reginam Nostram Victoriam Primam" (Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria I) and the meaning of ‘Royal Mecca Clock Tower' "In the name of Allah". It is the beginning of Dar Al-Handasah and first headquarters was in Beirut. In 1956 the firm began with four professors from the American University of Beirut open a specialized engineering firm in order to meet the raise of regional demand. It is a top design consultants marking five decades of building successful client relationships attracting the best and brightest employees and keeping pace with increasingly complex challenges. It is an international network of globally recognized service firms. The rising numbers of pilgrims have given rise to a positive building boom in Mekkah, which is being literally crowned by the construction company Saudi Bin Laden Group’s Royal Clock Tower.ĭar has consistently ranked among the world’s top 10 engineer and architectural global consultancies for over 25 years. Increasing industrialization in Muslim countries enables more and more believers to undertake the hajj, the holy pilgrimage to Mekkah. The Royal Clock Tower Hotel is to become the new symbol of the Islamic world and is already a sign of change in the region. The wire rope hoists lift between 3t and 6t it is controlled by radio remote and it lifted to maximum height of 120m. The wall mounted travelling cranes worked along, the Jib cranes serve the fringe and move loads around the corners of the building. The huge clock fitted on top of the building with the support provided by the German tower clock manufacturer PERROT.Īs both the dial components and the innumerable sections of building cladding had to be transported right against the walls of the building tower cranes were ruled out for the work and wall mounted travelling cranes and Jib cranes cover the whole area around the tower. Over 2 million LEDs provide illumination the lights are on five times a day at prayer time, the dials flash green and the clock is intended to be seen from a larger distance.įor the installation of the gigantic clock STAHL, Crane Systems supplied 23 wire rope hoists installed on wall mounted Jib cranes at varying heights on the tower facade. Each of the four dials is studded with 98 million glass mosaic tessera. The landmark edifice also carries intricate Islamic decorative artwork. The other two sided clock is 65 meters in height and 43 meters in width while their dial diameter is 25 meters. Two of the clock faces including the inscription is 80 meters in height and 65 meters in width and the dial diameter will be 39 meters. The name of Allah has been inscribed on each of the four clock faces. The clock is placed on the 5 th tower of the King Abdul at a height of 380 meters and can be seen from all four sides. King Abdullah, the head of Two Holy Mosques had ordered the largest clock tower in the world to be built in Mecca. In according to design wise using Islamic architecture, it contains seven adjacent towers with 6,000 housing units and as over SR6 billion ($1.6 billion) in investments. ![]() The project was rated as the largest architectural building in view of the total area in which exceeded 1.4 million square meters. The building was designed by globally operating Dar Al-Handasah Consultants and the prime contractor ‘Saudi Binladin Group’, the kingdom’s largest construction company (Saudi Arabia). Mecca is worshiped as the most sacred mosque site and a world richest seven star hotel in Dubai. Saudi Arabia is not just Islam’s holistic place but also having a set of world recoded structures. The Mecca clock is six times larger than London’s Big Ben Clock. The clock is visible from 17 km away at night and 11 to 12 km away during the day.Ī German owned company, Premiere Composite Technologies has designed the clock and featured accordingly for its popularity chase. The first trial run was done on Jeddah face side during Ramadan. The giant Mecca Clock Tower ticks to be as the highest clock tower in the world. The ‘Mecca Royal Hotel Clock Tower’ is treated as a government owned mega-tall complex building in Saudi Arabia. ![]() The Mecca Royal Clock Tower, Saudi Arabia
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