Cleaners in the sky !

A little bird told me..........

Petronas Twin Towers

Question:.. How do you keep the world's tallest twin buildings gleaming bright and clean in the Malaysian sky, especially if there are 32,000 glass panes from pavement to peak, always waiting to be soaped and wiped ....

Let's do some mathematics here...

With 65,000sq metres of stainless steel cladding and 77,000 sq metres of vision glass, the external maintenance of the 452m towers- designed by Cesar Pelli & Asociates of the US- must be a nightmare of a job !
There are 14,873 wall units per tower, not including the 56 units on each pinnacle, 302 units at the Sky bridge and support columns, and 950 units at the podium facade.

Each tower takes 5 months to clean, which is undertaken twice a year.Cleaning hours are from 7am-11pm for the towers, and 7am-6pm for the skybridge and columns,Suria KLCC links and the podium facade. Frontage area are from 10pm -6am
The cleaners covers eight (8) floors a day.
All surfaces are to be washed with a neutral detergent and scrubbed with a soft 3m nylon pad. Scrubbing must be done in the direction of the grain of the surfaces, which is vertical. Drying is with soft lint-free cloth (like the "good morning"
towels)

Those contracted to work in the KLCC premises have to attend a compulsory 45min briefing every 6 months.
The emergency procedure allows for the 2 towers to be evacuated within 31minutes. It takes only about 90sec by the utility lift to get from P1(Parking Level 1 at the Suria KLCC side) -to the top of the tower.

With so much calculation involved, if you are not a maths wizard, just go for the KISS formula (KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE) .. It certainly is an enormous job just keeping both the towers spick and span-


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