Palm island ppt

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The Concept and Construction of PALM ISLAND

Presented by :- Preetham.H.P 4GL11CV036

GEC Kushalnagar

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What are the things behind it…??

• Where??• Why??• When??• How and Problems faced..• Possible or not??• Can it ??• Is it??• Final Conclusion….

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Where???

The City of Dreams DUBAI

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Palm Island ( Palm Jumeirah )

• Location

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Why???

• Dubai is famous for its GOLD,TRADE and OIL RESERVES

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• 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 billon 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 and

race coarse and was planning for world’s tallest building.

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• The crown prince idea was to increase the tourism from 5 million to 15 million• But Dubai's tourism mainly depends upon the coastal area but there was not

enough space for 15 million people so he decided to construct an island on Persian gulf.

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When??• The Palm Jumeriah was started on AUGUST 2001 and crown prince

idea was to finish it by 2006.

• 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.

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 Construction Machineries Used 9 barges, 15 dumpers, 4 dredgers, 30 heavy land base machines and 10 cranes were used.

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Steps Involved in the construction

Step 1 : Estimation of WAVE STRENGHTStep 2 : Construction Of BREAKWATERStep 3 : Sand Filling and Compaction Step 4 : Construction of Buildings

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How and problems faced ??Step 1 : To estimate the strength of the waves , the rise in water level due to global warming .• Research team worked out that Arabian gulf is only 160 Km wide and only 30

meters deep, hence too short and too shallow for catastrophic waves to built up. • Breakwater was to be constructed having height up to 3 meters and 11.5 Km

long.

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Step 2 : Construction of Break water :-• 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.

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• Each piece of rock weighed about 6 tons which is excavated from 16 quarries across UAE.

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• Break water constructions was started from august 2001 .• But on September 2001 WTC was attacked .• Suddenly the tourism to middle east stopped. • Over coming the problem the break water was made to rise.

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Step 3 : Sand Filling :• 94 million cubic sand was needed for the construction of this island .

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Position of Palm Island :• There were only two straight lines in the Palm Island rest of them were curve.• On land it was impossible to tell the shape of the Palm .• By the help of GPS it was made easy.

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Possible or Not ??• Suddenly the constructed was stopped • The water was appearing to be stagnate by this design.

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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.• Liquification would have happened if vibro compaction was not done.

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Can it??• 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.

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Erosion :• Due to wave action there will be sand erosion.• Due to the construction of the Palm Island the beach sand is eroded in

someplace and deposited in someplace.• This is checked by using dredgers.

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Is it??• The environmentalists were worried about the carol reef and the aquatic life

which was another source of income.• But the studies proved that the break water had given shelter to many type of

fishes and the carol reef is created by itself , hence it was planed to improve.• Thus, the environmentalist had no objection to the project.

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Final 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”.• And constructed the islands which looks like the world from space and named

it was “THE WORLD”

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REFFERENCE

1. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalmIslands 2. www.civility.wapka.mobi/civil_seminar/plamisland3. www.howstuffworks.com/dubai4. www.palmisland.com 5. www.aboutcivil.org6. www.youtube/plamisland/

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