Half million cubic meters of concrete, 80,000 tons of steel to be used in the world’s tallest tower

Half a million cubic meters of concrete and about 80,000 tons of steel are planned to be used to build the 1km high Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that would replace Dubai’s 828m Burj Khalifa as the world’s tallest building, according to Advanced Construction Technology Services (ACTS).

ACTS, which was contracted by Saudi Binladin Group, to carry out quality control tests on the construction materials to be used on the ambitious project of Prince Alwaleed’s investment vehicle, Kingdom Holding, will deploy 100 experts to the project and will build a site laboratory to carry out daily testing of the high performance concrete.

The $1.23 billion- tower is the first phase of the 5.3m square meters Kingdom City development to be built north of the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Kingdom Holding Co, 95 percent owned by prince Alwaleed, controls 33.35 percent stake in the project, while Binladin group holds 16.63 percent.