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The Skyscraper Museum and The New York Academy of Sciences present: World’s Tallest Building: Burj Dubai Lecture Series William F. Baker, PE, CE, SE, FASCE Partner in Charge of Structural and Civil Engineering Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP May 23 2007: SUPERTALLEST Structural engineer William F. Baker, a partner in the Chicago office of SOM, and a specialist in supertalls, has designed several exceptionally slender skyscrapers of nearly 2000 feet or higher. Only Burj Dubai, though, has found financing and moved forward... or upward! In this lecture Bill Baker made clear the innovative form and structural system of Burj Dubai and explained how the tower was "virtually designed in the wind tunnel." Learn more: http://www.skyscraper.org/PROGRAMS/BURJ_DUBAI_LECTURES/bd_intro.htm To view the Introduction and other videos of this series go to: http://www.skyscraper.org/PROGRAMS/BURJ_DUBAI_LECTURES/01_supertallest.htm