The solar panels are expected to cover the roof and the top of each floor. Fisher said that they could generate up to 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours of energy each year. The turbines would be located between each of the rotating floors. Enough surplus electricity should be produced to power five other similar sized buildings in the vicinity. The entire tower is proposed to be powered from wind turbines and solar panels. The core would serve each floor with a special, patented connection for clean water, based on technology used to refuel airplanes in mid-flight. Kitchen and bathroom fixtures would be pre-installed. The majority of the workers would be in factories, working under safer conditions. Fisher said that the prefabricated portions would decrease the project's cost and the number of workers, and that construction will take 30% less time than a normal skyscraper of the same size. The core of the tower must be built at the construction site. This would allow the entire building to be built more quickly. Fisher said that 90% of the tower could be built in a factory and shipped to the construction site. It was proposed as the world's first prefabricated skyscraper with 40 factory-built modules for each floor. Each floor is designed to rotate a maximum of 6 metres (20 ft) per minute, or one full rotation in 180 minutes. Similar to the Suite Vollard completed in 2001 in Brazil, each floor is designed to rotate independently, resulting in a changing shape of the tower. The Dynamic Tower (also known as the rotating tower or the Da Vinci Tower) is a cancelled 420-metre (1,378 ft), 80-floor moving skyscraper, designed by architect David Fisher. Hotel, Residential, Office in United Arab Emirates Dynamic Tower
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