Dubai tower tallest building in the world

A building developer in the United Arab Emirates has claimed the record for the world’s tallest building. Emaar Properties says its Burj Dubai tower, still under construction, has reached a height of 512.1 metres and 141 storeys. The current record holder, Taiwan’s Taipei 101 building is 508 metres and 101 storeys. The Burj Dubai is expected to be finished in 2008 and will reach nearly 700 metres in height, with approximately 160 storeys. The exact final height is being kept a closely guarded secret by the developer, presumably to prevent other constructers from challenging the record. Taipei 101 will keep the official "tallest building" record until the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which sets the criteria for achieving height records for buildings, evaluates the Burj Dubai in late 2008.

Dubai is currently undergoing a construction boom and the Burj Dubai is the centrepiece of a $20 billion residential and commercial project, which will boast the world's largest shopping mall. However, there have been many criticisms of the working conditions for builders in Dubai. In 2006, a Human Rights Watch report on the treatment of migrant workers, entitled "Building Towers, Cheating Workers", documented labour abuses. It highlighted "extremely low wages…the withholding of employees’ passports, and hazardous working conditions that result in apparently high rates of death and injury." The salaries of migrant construction workers in Dubai range from $106 to $250 per month, while the national average wage is over $2,000 per month. Trade unions remain illegal in the UAE.

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