CVU Gold Member

Dar

About

Member Since: 1994

Member Offices: Amman, Beirut, Cairo, London, Pune

Website: http://www.dar.com/

For over 60 years, Dar Al-Handasah (Shair and Partners) - Dar - has served the public and private sectors, working on projects with a total investment of $300 billion.

Dar is the founder of Dar Group, an international network of professional service firms, comprised of over 19,000 staff members assisting clients in over 100 countries around the world.

They are dedicated to planning, designing, engineering, and project managing facilities, installations and structures that contribute to the sustainable advance of communities worldwide. Dar has consistently ranked among the world’s top 10 engineering and architectural global consultancies for over 25 years.

Fields of Expertise

Architecture; Engineering, Multi-discipline; Transportation / Urban Infrastructure

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Jeddah Tower

1,000 m / 3,281 ft
2 Makkah Royal Clock Tower

601 m / 1,972 ft
3 Iconic Tower

394 m / 1,292 ft
4 Abraj Al Bait ZamZam Tower

279 m / 915 ft
5 Abraj Al Bait Hajar Tower

276 m / 906 ft
6 Abraj Al Bait Maqam Tower

232 m / 762 ft
6 Abraj Al Bait Qibla Tower

232 m / 762 ft
8 Abraj Al Bait Marwah Tower

232 m / 761 ft
8 Abraj Al Bait Safa Tower

232 m / 761 ft
10 MAG 218 Tower

232 m / 760 ft

Building Completions Timeline

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Jeddah Tower

1,000 m / 3,281 ft
2 Makkah Royal Clock Tower

601 m / 1,972 ft
3 Iconic Tower

394 m / 1,292 ft
4 Abraj Al Bait ZamZam Tower

279 m / 915 ft
5 Abraj Al Bait Hajar Tower

276 m / 906 ft
6 Abraj Al Bait Maqam Tower

232 m / 762 ft
6 Abraj Al Bait Qibla Tower

232 m / 762 ft
8 Abraj Al Bait Marwah Tower

232 m / 761 ft
8 Abraj Al Bait Safa Tower

232 m / 761 ft
10 MAG 218 Tower

232 m / 760 ft
11 Abraj Kudai T6A and T6B

230 m / 755 ft
12 Al Fardan Tower 1

178 m / 584 ft
13 Al Fardan Tower 2

140 m

459 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 32 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 6,728 other buildings of the same Office function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
14 Four Seasons Hotel

120 m / 394 ft
15 PPA 30 Parcel 2.11

55 m / 180 ft
16 Abraj Kudai T1A

-
16 Abraj Kudai T1B

-
18 Abraj Kudai T2A

-
18 Abraj Kudai T2B

-
18 Abraj Kudai T3A

-
18 Abraj Kudai T3B

-
18 Abraj Kudai T4A

-
18 Abraj Kudai T4B

-
18 Abraj Kudai T5A

-
18 Abraj Kudai T5B

-
26 PPA 30 Parcel 4.01

-

Statistics

Average Building Age*

16 Years

Most Common Function*

Residential (55%)

Most Common Material*

Concrete (82%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Based on 11 buildings over 150 m height with a function
 
Based on 11 buildings over 150 m height with a material
 

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.

Designated Experts

Tarek Hassan

Principal - Head of Design Unit, Dar
Cairo, Egypt

Charles Malek

Director of Structural Design, Dar
Beirut, Lebanon

Ashraf Osman

Principal, Dar
Cairo, Egypt

Aziz Mattar

Director of Structural Engineering, Dar
Giza, Egypt

George Marj

Head of structural and bridge design department, Dar
BEIRUT, Lebanon

Shekhar Palshikar

Associate, Head of Design Unit, Senior Structural Engineer, Dar
Pune, India

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