An awe-inspiring engineering feat, Dubai Palm Islands is definitely the
largest artificial islands on earth. These Islands are three man made
islands in the form of massive palm trees connected to the beaches of
Dubai. The first island is the Palm Jumeirah, Jebel Ali Palm second and
the third is the Palm Deira which is the biggest of them all. This
artificial archipelago located off the coastline of United Arab Emirates
in Persian Gulf.
Dubai islands project was commissioned by
Sheikh Mohammed in an effort to maximize beachfront property. Dubai's
palm tree-shaped resort island on land built from the sea will
contribute 120 km of beaches. Aside from the construction of the
ambitious expansion, there is also the problem of constructing a mini
city, which consists of 4,500 high-end residential homes, miles of
roads, luxurious hotels and many amenities that will require basic human
resources including electricity, safe drinking water and many more.
This enormous project will position Dubai as one of the top tourist
destinations in the world.
I will tell you why these islands
have appeared and that they must satisfy. Dubai is an emirate that open
sea about 50 km (an estimate) and the sites required for building
projects are on the beach. To view course and especially to "park" in
front of the yacht's property or even assembly.
Well when the beach
was not available, and demand persists, the beach had invented. And it
appeared artificial islands. Hence so sophisticated forms of the
islands: they had to provide a larger opening to the ocean.
This new
concept quickly caught on. 'Only a' product 'high-end, the latest
wrinkle in the most creative developers metropolis. A new source of
land, location of the trick of the planet Earth! The job went, the two
islands were settled immediately, with mixed development, spectacular,
exorbitant, and finally in Dubai's specific style ... In parallel to the
World archipelago started building and other projects are still on the
drawing board Nakheel, developer. But crisis compels us to winter a
little ...
Where is the dream of similar islands: In Lebanon,
wants to build a cedar shaped islands, the symbol of this country.
Russia wants to try an island / an archipelago in Black in Sochi at the
2014 Olympics, at least that is speaking through the past years. Also in
Japan there are several large airports built on artificial islands.
The
Palm Islands are artificial peninsulas constructed of sand dredged from
the bottom of the Persian Gulf by the Belgian company Jan De Nul and
the Dutch company Van Oord.
The sand is sprayed by the dredging
ships, which are guided by DGPS, onto the required area in a process
known as rain-bowing because of the arcs in the air when the sand is
sprayed. The outer edge of each Palm's encircling crescent is a large
rock breakwater. The breakwater of the Palm Jumeirah has over seven
million tons of rock.
Each rock was placed individually by a
crane, signed off by a diver and given a GPS coordinate. The Jan De Nul
Group started working on the Palm Jebel Ali in 2002 and had finished by
the end of 2006. The reclamation project for the Palm Jebel Ali includes
the creation of a four-kilometre-long peninsula, protected by a
200-metre-wide, seventeen-kilometre long circular breakwater.
210,000,000
m3 of rock, sand and limestone were reclaimed (partly originating from
the Jebel Ali Entrance Channel dredging works). There are approximately
10,000,000 cubic metres of rocks in the slope protection works.
The
Palm Islands are an artificial archipelago (islands) in Dubai, United
Arab Emirates. Major commercial and residential infrastructures will be
constructed by Nakheel Properties, a property developer in The UAE. The
Belgian and Dutch dredging and marine contractors, Jan De Nul and Van
Oord, some of the world's specialists in land reclamation, were hired to
complete construction. The islands are the Palm Jumeirah, the Palm
Jebel Ali and the Palm Deira.
Each settlement will be in the
shape of a palm tree, topped with a crescent. The settlements will have a
large number of residential, leisure and entertainment centers. The
Palm Islands are located off the coast of The UAE in the Persian Gulf
and will add 520 kilometers of beaches to the city of Dubai.
The
first two islands will comprise of approximately 100 million cubic
meters of rock and sand. The Palm Deira will be composed of
approximately one billion cubic meters of rock and sand. All materials
will be quarried in The UAE. Among the three islands, there will be over
100 luxury hotels, exclusive residential beach side villas and
apartments, marinas, water theme parks, restaurants, shopping malls,
sports facilities and health spas.
The creation of the Palm
Jumeirah began in June 2001. Shortly after, the Palm Jebel Ali was
announced and reclamation work began. The Palm Deira is planned to have a
surface area of 46.35 square kilometers and was announced for
development in October 2004
