How Everything Is Made on Instagram: "The engineering that keeps the Burj Khalifa stable on soft desert sand. More than 190 steel piles, each driven over 160 feet into the ground, anchor the tower deep below the surface. Above them sits a massive reinforced concrete foundation — nearly 12 million gallons of concrete forming a slab about 12 feet thick. This base connects the building’s main support columns and spreads the immense weight evenly across the ground. As the tower rises to nearly 3,000