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The tower at Canary Wharf (One Canada Square) has 50 floors and is 800 feet (244 metres) high. It is the tallest building in Britain. |
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The tower is an occupied office building and is not open to the public. |
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90,000 square feet of Italian and Guatemalan marble have been used in the 36-foot lobby. |
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The tower has 3,960 windows and 4,388 steps, divided into four fire stairways. |
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The tower has 32 passenger lifts divided into four banks, each serving a different section of the building. It also has two freight lifts and two firemens lifts. |
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Lifts travel from the lobby to the 50th floor in just 40 seconds. |
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The building is designed to sway 13 and three quarter inches in the strongest winds that might occur once every 100 years. |
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27,500 metric tonnes of British Steel and 500,000 bolts were used in the construction of the tower. |
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The exterior walls are clad by some 370,000 square feet of Patten Hyclad Cambric finish stainless steel. |
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Average floor size is 28,000 square feet. |
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On most floors, there are 13 feet 6 inches floor heights, permitting a minimum 9 feet height from raised floor to dropped ceiling. |
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Four floors have an additional 6 inches for extra raised floor height for computer and heavy mechanical use. |
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Four floors have an additional 1 foot allowance for use as a trading floor and the top floor has an additional 2 feet. |
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The aircraft warning light at the very top of the tower flashes 40 times a minute, 57,600 times a day. |
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Over 108,000 deliveries are made to the loading bay of the tower every year. |