The Wasl Tower is a 302m super-high-rise structure in downtown Dubai, surrounded by the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the World, and the new City Walk Development.

The tower will have the world’s tallest ceramic façade which will help regulate the internal temperature of the building as well as reducing the surrounding noise.

Moreover, vertical gardens and several shading and cooling design innovations are going to further minimize the overall carbon footprint of the building.

The project will comprise offices, residential areas, service apartments, a 5-star Mandarin Oriental hotel, along with bars, restaurants, a spa and a swimming pool.

With its structural concept of three 300m-high core shear walls connecting to four large outriggers, high-performance rebar couplers are required to reinforce and connect concrete beams and columns.

More than 280,000 Bartec standard couplers, weldable couplers, headed bars and RepairGrip swaged couplers were delivered for that purpose.

The project is anticipated to be completed in 2021.

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