The Jumeirah Palm Islands

Presented to -Prof Bins Mathew

GNIMS

Group Members

• Priya Mohapatra – A 37• Dhanashree Mankame – A 33• Neha Rambhade – A 48• Faalgun Mehta – A 35

• The Palm Islands are on the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

• They are three planned islands - Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and

Palm Deira which would have extended into the Persian Gulf,

increasing

• Dubai's shoreline by a total of 520 kilometres.

Purpose • Middle East Arab: Jewel of Arab

World• Profit by its Oil Reserves. Problem:

Oil Run Out• $2 Billion Plan – to save his country.• Ordered his Kingdom to transform

into Worlds No. 1 Luxury Tourist Destination.

• Perfect Spot – Mass Tourism• 5 million Tourists Annually

• Triple it to 15 million.Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

• Coastline of Dubai – 72 kms long• No enough space – for extra 10 million

people• Paradise Island – covering area of

7million sq.mt and extending 6.5 km shape of a Palm Tree with Crescent shape Breakwater

• Coastline – Increased by 56 kms

• 9 times more than circular island.

)Area 5.6km2

The breakwater 11.5km

Construction Started 2001

Completion First phase 2006

Client Nakheel

Total coast until 2007 USD 6.5bln

Consultant Hill International (USA)

Coastline added 78.6km to the country's 72km

Employees working on the project each day 40,000

Reclamation 94 million cubic metres of sand and seven million tonnes of rock.

Hotels 40 five-star

Guests Expected to become 30,000

Visitors per day Predicted to become 20,000, with 15 million visitors by 2010

Residents 60,000 from more than 70 nations round the globe

Project Timeline

1st Stage

2000: Project Announcement

2001-03: Breakwater

Construction

2nd Stage

2003: Land Reclamation Completion

2004-06: Constructing City

3rd Stage

2006: Partial Completion

2008: Final Completion

Pre Construction Tests

• Dubai based Emirates Nortech conducts survey to test shape and volume both above and below the projected high and low waterlines.

• Dubai based Sorgreath Gulf created a 3D physical scale model of the crescent to perform exhaustive tests in laboratory using a 12m random wave generator.

• Massive island is being constructed out at sea, using only natural materials, sand and rock.

• Water causes erosion of sand and rock..

• To keep it in place, barge-loads of rubble are dropped on top of this.

• Sand found at 6 miles out at sea.

• Pumped through a pipe and sprayed into place at 10 mps. This process is called Rainbowing.

Breakwaters

Environmentalists - test the water every day to check that the system is working.

The return of algae and stagnant water is something they can't allow.

Vibrocompaction • Bam in Iran - 6.6. If epicentre Dubai will

lead to liquefaction

• As the sand compacts, it pushes the water between the particles upwards, making the ground liquefy.

• This shaft then vibrates, shaking the ground around it, the sand compacts and sinks, more sand is poured in until the area around the probes is rock solid.

Controversy

• Extended delays to the completion of the project.• After launching the project, Increase in number of residential units on

the island.• Miscalculating the actual cost of construction.• Doubts about the quality of the construction.• Environmental impact.

Environmental Problems • Erosion, caused by winds and water

currents.• Due to the shape of the island right outside

the coast of Dubai, there is loss of coastal shape along the seashore of Dubai.

• Disturbances in the reproductive cycles of the species of fish

• Newly-born fish were not able to survive

• Damage to the marine ecology marine habitat, burying coral reefs, oyster beds and subterranean fields of sea grass

• Profound underwater changes- The typically crystalline waters of the gulf of Dubai have become severely clouded with silt

Economic Development

• Developing at a crazy pace averaging around 10% economic growth per year.

• Dubai has grasped the attention of the whole world due to its flourishing tourism and freehold property sectors.

• The economic scenario has grown dramatically in the short span of under a decade and the UAE has proved to the world to be a perfect business hub.