Building the Biggest: Skyscrapers
Monday February 26th 2001, Channel 4, 8.00pm
As part of a series of three documentaries, “Building the biggest,” Eddie Pugh, partner, Buro Happold, is followed by a documentary crew on site in Riyadh, during the last hectic months of the construction of Al Faisaliah. The Channel 4 programme explores the issues surrounding the construction of a skyscraper, and captures the pressures, complexities and demanding schedules of the construction management of one of the tallest buildings to ever be built in the Middle East.
Following the broadcast, Eddie Pugh will be available online for a web chat. The chat will be advertised on Channel 4 both before and after the programme and also on the Channel 4 website - http://www.channel4.com/talk
Al Faisaliah, the enormous skyscraper with associated hotel, shopping mall, underground banqueting and car park, is the ambitious joint venture between Foster and Partners and Buro Happold that has changed the Riyadh skyline.
Building the Biggest: Programmes in the series
February 19th Building the biggest : Aircraft
Feburary 26th Building the biggest: Skyscraper
March 5th Building the biggest: Ships
Background information for Editors:
Buro Happold is a multi-disciplinary international practice of consulting engineers established in 1976 offering civil and structural engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, quantity surveying, building services and environmental engineering, infrastructure and traffic engineering, geotechnical engineering, façade engineering, fire engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis, access consultancy, project management, urban design and a range of specialist CAD services.
