The show organized at the Burj Khalifa to say goodbye to the year is once again a Guinness record

El ‘Light Up 2018’ has been the spectacle that took place, on New Year's Eve, in the Burj Khalifa skyscraper. An event that covered an area of 109.252 square meters and captivated an audience of more than 2.500 millions of people through live broadcast on television and social networks.

The Arab Emirates have once again surprised the world with the show that was organized in the center of Dubai to welcome the new year. In it Burj Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper in the world, The 'Light Up 2018' show was offered, which welcomed more than a million visitors from all over the world and had an audience of more than 2.500 millions of people through live broadcast on television and social networks.

This show, organized by the real estate company Emaar Properties has also secured a place in Guinness World Records (the Guinness book of records) as the 'largest show of lights and sounds in the same building', covering an area of 109.252 square meters, more than double the previous record.

“The show 'Let's light up 2018'’ It is a tribute to the nation, celebrating their achievements and putting the UAE on the world map as the place where inspiring minds converge and connect”, comments Mohamed Alabbar, president of Emaar Properties.

With the show 'Light Up 2018’ The achievements of the United Arab Emirates have been praised and tribute has been paid to the founder of the nation, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, on the occasion of the 'Year of Zayed’ in 2018. The show also included the flight of a falcon and the representation of the next Emaar icon, Dubai Creek Tower, in Dubai Creek Harbor.

This event has involved the installation of lights, spokes and accessories with a total weight of more than 118,44 tons and 28,7 kilometers of cables. The spectacle transformed downtown Dubai into one of the brightest places in the world with a luminosity of 76,3 million lumens. Carefully choreographed laser beams were set up (certified as one hundred percent safe for the human eye) and energy/efficient LED bulbs using 25,3 km of ropes with the support of special steel equipment 20 tons for assembly.

More than 40 special outdoor lasers, 230 high voltage xenon projectors and 280 moving light beams, outdoor, all of this underlined by the installation of projectors and lasers located at 828 metros, the height of Burj Khalifa. More than 300 professionals worked on site, even a hundred expert cordistas.

Powerful laser beams and the new LED panel 1,1 million pixels of the Burj Khalifa came to life with inspiring themes and drawings in a myriad of colors. The laser show, lights and fountains was a tribute to the UAE and Dubai and included abstract descriptions of the forces of nature.
The entire show has been choreographed with music made by the company Dhabiwood Studios. More than 80 Musicians from the United Arab Emirates have come together for the musical composition which has been recorded in studios in Dubai and Cairo.

This is not the first time that a New Year's Eve show organized in the Burj Kalifa skyscraper in Dubai has entered the Guinness Book. As already published in Digital AV Magazine, the event celebrated for the New Year of 2015 It earned him entry into the Guinness World Record.. On this occasion it was to achieve the “Largest LED-illuminated façade in the world” that covered an area of 32.467 square meters, surpassing the previous record held by the Taman Anggrek shopping center in Indonesia.

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