The Largest Clock in the World and the Second Tallest Building in the World.
As the leading supplier of large, composite components Premier Composite Technologies was the ideal partner to take on the challenge of building the upper cladding and the clock faces for the largest clock in the world that will be installed in Mecca throughout 2010.
The clock tower is an incredible 601m in height, making it the second largest building in the world. Premier Composite Technologies will supply the uppermost 200m of the tower, a project that involves 43,000m2 of cladding made from glass fibre composites.
Premier Composite Technologies will also laminate the Epoxy glassfibre foam sandwich clock faces that each measure 43m by 43m. The massive clock hands, measuring 22m in length, will be produced from carbon fibre prepegs.
The Dokaae Tower will be covered in Italian mosaic titles, 13,000 of which are made from real gold. 700,000 LED lights will also be integrated into the composite cladding to light up the clock face by night.
To date, Premier Composite Technologies has dedicated over 40,000 square feet of their recently expanded facilities to the tiling and LED works for the tower.
Composite Crescent
The Dokaae Tower crescent is a self-supportive composite structure that measures 23m in diameter, making it the largest crescent ever built. The crescent is built similar to a sailing boat, with structural composite frames like bulkheads inside a yacht.