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January 5th 2010 22:44
The company, named Cox Gomyl, designed and built a US$7.35 million window-washing system for the Dubai megatower. It will take about three months to clean the whole building. The cleaners will rely on three things to do the job: state-of-the-art, 16-tonne cages which travel along tracks fixed to the outside of the building; personal electrolyte packs and custom-made clothing which resembles a space suit; and, for the actual cleaning of the windows, a bucket, a sponge, soap and water.
Cox Gomyl spokesman Dale Harding described the 828-metre, 200-storey building as "wide".
"People focus on the height of the building ... but really the breadth and width of the building is just huge when you're standing next to it," he said, still counting windows.
The company will also wipe down the Hubble Telescope, the orbit of which passes close to the higher levels of the building, and provide a crew for the fly-through spaceship cleaning station on the roof.
abc.net.au, telegraph.co.uk; images: Bloomberg (top), AFP/Getty Images
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