The first skyscraper to integrate a wind turbine with a building

Bahrain World Trade Center, standing on the shores of the Persian Gulf, is the world's first skyscraper to integrate a wind turbine with a building, and in theory, the combination of various ideas is a great innovation, but it is also an unprecedented attempt, in the world's richest oil region, designers and engineers turned the vision into reality, looked to the future, and used renewable energy to achieve this great project
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The Bahrain World Trade Center is a 240-meter-tall building
with twin towers.
The building is located on King Faisal Avenue in Manama, Bahrain's capital, with unobstructed views
of the Gulf of Bahrain.
The 50-storey building towers off the King Faisal Road and is adjacent to numerous landmarks such as Bahrain Financial Port, Bahrain National Bank, Abraj Al Lulu and the famous Pearl Tower
.
The height of the building is the second highest in the country, after the Bahrain Financial Port Tower
in Bahrain Financial Harbor.

The main body of the Bahrain World Trade Center consists of two 50-story twin towers, at the base of which is a three-story base, and its two triangular towers reach a height of 240 meters
.
Three wind turbines
with a diameter of 29 meters in diameter are installed horizontally supported between the two towers.
The sail-like building forms a convection of the sea breeze before the two buildings, speeding up the wind speed
.
Wind turbines are expected to support 11%-15%
of the building's electricity needs.

ON NOVEMBER 27, 2008, THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWER IN BALAIS WON THE 2008 BEST TALL BUILDING AWARD IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA BY THE CHICAGO-BASED COUNCIL ON TALL BUILDING AND URBANHABITAT
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The Bahrain World Trade Center is the world's first skyscraper
to integrate a wind turbine with a building.

The designers set up a 75-ton span bridge on the 16th (61m), 25th (97m) and 35th (133m) floors between the twin towers, on which three horizontal shaft wind turbines with a diameter of 29m and connected generators were fixed to
the three bridges.
Completion is scheduled for April 2008
.

The Bahrain World Trade Center costs US$96 million (35 million Bahraini dinars, about 700 million yuan), has a total floor area of 120961 square meters, in addition to office space and business facilities, as well as hotels, shopping malls, coffee houses, restaurants and health clubs, and 1,700 parking spaces
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Bahrain World Trade Center consists of two identical-looking towers, the twin towers are more than 240 meters high, a total of 50 floors, the plan is oval, the shape is sail-shaped, the lines are smooth, it has a strong visual impact, deep emerald color glass and white skin make the building blend in with the surrounding desert landscape and sea scenery
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Even more remarkable is the installation of three horizontal axis wind turbines between the 50-storey, 240-meter-high office towers, making the World Trade Center the world's first skyscraper
to continuously supply itself with renewable energy.
The three turbines can provide about 1,200 megawatt-hours (1.
2 million kWh) of electricity per year, which is equivalent to the electricity
consumption of 300 households.

The wind turbine has a rotor speed of 38 revolutions per minute at full load and generates electricity
through a series of gearboxes housed in the engine compartment that allow the generators to run at 1,500 revolutions per minute.
The optimal power generation state designed is about 225 kW
at wind speeds of 15-20 m/s.

The rotor of the fan has a diameter of 29 meters and is made
of 50 layers of fiberglass.
When the wind is strong, or when it is necessary to turn into a standstill state, the tip of the foil will push outward, increasing the total torque of the rotor and achieving the purpose of
deceleration.
The maximum wind speed that the wind turbine can withstand is 80 meters per second, and it can withstand a category 4 hurricane (wind speed above 69 meters per second).