How high is Building 101? How fast is the elevator? 10 super interesting facts about Taipei 101
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2021/10/15The United States has the Statue of Liberty, the United Kingdom has the Eiffel Tower, and France has the Louvre Museum. Just like these landmarks with the characteristics and cultural heritage of each country, Taipei 101 also has an unshakable importance to Taiwan. Taipei 101 was once the tallest building in the world. The buildings are an indispensable blend of culture, art, engineering, geography and technology, creating one of the most representative projects in Taiwan's history. In addition to super-tall buildings and shopping malls, do you know enough about the 101 Building? ? How many of the following ten questions can you answer correctly?
1. How tall is the 101 building?
The building is 508 meters high. When it was completed in December 2004, it won three world firsts: the world's highest roof - 448 meters (1,474 feet); the world's highest floor - 101 floors. It won three world firsts: The tallest building - 508 meters, this record has been maintained for 5 years; Taipei 101 is also the first building in the world over 500 meters high.
2. How fast is elevator 101 and how long does it take to get to the 89th floor?
Taipei 101 Observation Deck is equipped with two ultra-high-speed elevators, with an ascending speed of up to 1,010 meters per minute, equivalent to a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. It only takes 37 seconds to go from the 5th floor to the 89th floor observation deck. When the elevator rises and falls rapidly, the human body will cause tinnitus due to pressure imbalance. Therefore, both fast elevators are equipped with constant pressure control equipment, allowing passengers to ride the high-speed elevator comfortably. .
3. What does the color that the 101 Building lights up every day mean?
Since the completion of Taipei 101, lights have been lit up every night to make Taipei's night view shine brighter. From sunset to 11pm every day, the lights will be lit up in the spectrum of the rainbow - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. They will be lit up in turn from Monday to Sunday. Want to know today? Just look up at Taipei 101 to know what day it is on the week!Little knowledge +: In fact, sometimes the lights do not follow the colors of the rainbow. The colors are adjusted according to various activities or festivals. For example, in order to respond to the "World Premature Infant Day", the purple lights were turned on on Thursday. So next time you look up, if the color of the building is different from the corresponding day, it means today is a special day! !
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4. A room as big as Taipei 101, do you spend a lot of money on air-conditioning every year?
In fact, the air-conditioning system is the most energy-consuming device in the 101 Building, so a chilled water host air-conditioning system was installed from the beginning. Every night, the ice water host will make 5°C ice water and send it to the air-conditioning boxes on each floor to reduce the temperature of the air-conditioning air. Not only does it save money and electricity, the most important thing is that it is environmentally friendly, which is also the reason why 101 becomes a green building. One of the main reasons.
5. With so much glass in Taipei 101, will it reflect heat and make Taipei even hotter?
Taipei 101 is the first building in Taiwan to use double-layer insulated low-e glass curtains. Inert gas is poured into the double-layer glass to reduce the impact of heat sources on the interior; the building uses low-e coating glass. , effectively blocks more than 50% of heat and ultraviolet rays, and can also effectively reduce sunlight reflection from glass curtains.Tips +: The double-layer glass curtain can effectively block 38-40 decibels. No matter how noisy it is outside, you can go shopping and work in 101 with peace of mind.
6. How many pieces of glass are there on the exterior wall of Taipei 101? How to clean it?
A total of 48,000 pieces of glass are used in the exterior walls of 101; in addition to using machines for cleaning, high-altitude operators are also asked to clean the exterior glass regularly. If the wind speed exceeds 10 meters per second, work must be stopped. Rainy days and typhoons also None of them are suitable, so it will take three months to clean each wall, and the entire building will be cleaned just enough to welcome the new year.
7. With so many floors in 101, how should the garbage be disposed of?
Taipei 101 uses a garbage delivery system, with a total length of 370 meters from B2 to the 84th floor, and a total of 64 delivery doors. Cleaning staff will sort the garbage before delivery. After the garbage is put in, it will be stored in the gravity chute. When the amount of garbage in the tank reaches a certain amount, the emptying process will be started. Crusher reuse negative pressure technology is installed at B2F, 17F, 42F and 66F, which can reduce the volume of garbage by 25% to 40%. Reducing waste volume also reduces labor costs.
8. Where does the water in 101 come from?Is it enough for the people inside the building?
The Taipei 101 building looks like a bamboo, and its rising "bamboo joints" hide environmental protection secrets. Above the 34th floor, the "bamboo joints" of every eight floors and the gaps in the platform floor are connected to pipeline devices. Whenever rainwater flows down the pipeline device from the gaps, it will fall into the large storage room. After passing through the filtration system, it will be completely reused, with a reuse rate of 100%. In 2016, the system saved more than 18,000 tons of water, which was used to water outdoor plants, clean exterior signs, and flush shopping mall toilets.
9. Is the top of 101 a lightning rod? What should I do if lightning strikes the 101 Building?
In fact, the top of 101 is the communication tower. The entire building uses a total length of 3,800 meters of lightning protection copper tape, and 110 small lightning rods as long as an arm, which are set on the terrace of each bucket and surround the entire building to prevent lightning on all sides. The lightning strike phenomenon that occurs in the eight rounds, if it is really struck by lightning, will conduct the lightning strike to the ground through the lightning protection copper tape, just like the golden bell cover of 101.
10. What are the Taipei 101 dampers used for? How did they transport such large dampers to the 101 building?
One of the most important facilities in Taipei 101 is the adjustable mass damper, also known as the wind damper. The main function is to generate reaction force to balance the entire building, which can effectively reduce the shaking of the building by 40%. After all, Taiwan has typhoons and Earthquake and wind damping balls are absolutely indispensable.
The wind damping ball weighs 660 metric tons. Careful calculation shows that the wind damping ball is composed of 41 layers of steel plates. When the building was originally built, the trucks and tower cranes that were transported could not bear the weight of the wind damping ball, so they were It was dismantled piece by piece, divided into several sections and transported to the 87th floor for assembly, and today's wind damping ball was born.
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