Fun Facts for VTP

Roll over other great landmarks of the world to see how they compare to the VTP200

In 2010 VTP200 will be...

  • the world’s first purpose built VerTiPlex
  • the highest observation tower in the UK
  • the highest building in Birmingham by 48m (a whole Colosseum of Rome)
  • the 4th tallest building in the UK
  • one and a half times the height of the London Eye
  • over twice the height of Big Ben’s clock tower
  • as high as the Victoria Falls is deep
  • just over four times the height of Rome’s Colosseum
  • almost four times taller than the Taj Mahal
  • three and a half times the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  • equivalent of the highest sand dune in the Gobi Desert

and will have...

  • an amazing viewing distance of 33 miles
  • 1175 steps to the summit
  • a usable base area of 20,000 sq. m. and 3,000 sq. m. for the tower

VTP200 will be equivalent in height to:-

  • 45 double decker buses
  • 33 of the world’s tallest giraffes
  • nearly 114 average British men; or 78 of the world’s tallest man, Leonid Stadnyk, and nearly 274 of the world’s smallest man, He Pingping.
  • 142 Mini Coopers
  • 10 Angel of the North statues
  • 4 Olympic sized swimming pools laid end to end
  • nearly 2 soccer pitches laid end to end
  • over 2.6 times higher than the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon
  • over 2.6 Boeing 747 airliners in length

and finally - amazing but true...

  • Marco de Gasperi of Italy, who holds the record for the world’s fastest vertical kilometre climb, could climb the tower in 6 minutes 58 seconds.