"Goooooooooooood morning Changsha!"
Yeah, like I’d want to stay in a 15-story hotel built that quickly. One good sneeze could bring it down.
Amazing what you can accomplish without labor unions and environmentalists.
See how much you can get done when you don't have union goons and city hall bureaucrats to deal with?
How soon before its’laying on its’side?
"Goooooooooooood morning Changsha!"
Note that it was a pre-fab steel structure, and the site was already fully prepared and all materials were in position.
Regardless, it DOES point out - China has been able to take the most useful aspects of modern technology and productivity, and apply it to manufacturing without the union/bureaucratic/regulatory/tort/ BS that we in the USA add to it.
Is this anything like Dear Leader scoring 11 holes in one the first time he played golf?
“I’m so roanree...Fore!”
I would have paid good money to watch this
ANYTHING is possible with an unlimited supply of slave labor.
—Petersburg, Russia
—Great Wall of China
—Roman Aquaducts
—Egyptian Pyramids
—etc. etc. etc.
1 billion slaves helps.
There’s no way I’d stay in that hotel. I understand they don’t have the unions and environmentalists but that’s just a little too fast for a 15-story building.
I hope they got to rest on the seventh day.
This isn’t all that impressive. There’s a business leadership video out there called “The Two Hour House” where people in San Diego actually built an entire house in less than two hours. Of course it was preceeded by months of planning, extensive pre-fabrication, and a team of hundreds that had planned and practiced ahead of time. But it shows how almost anything can be accomplished if the prep work is comprehensive enough.
No city restrictions. Maybe no building codes?
No lawsuits, inspectors and so forth.
28-day breaks?
What the heck are those?
;-)
“Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days “
Sure they weren’t Amish?
Pure unadulterated tripe.
And here we are almost 10 years after 9/11.
News flash: they can also build warships, aircraft, and missiles really quickly (and cheaply).
They may not be as good as ours — yet — but they definitely have the capability to overwhelm with sheer numbers.
Defeating the Japanese in WWII was a foregone conclusion, once the first shot was fired; the Japanese could not match our industrial output and the more sophisticated Japanese (e.g. Adm. Yamamoto, educated in the US).
Fast forward seventy years. It’s the Chinese with the industrial might. They can replace war materiel as fast as nearly anyone can destroy it. Personnel too.
Very sobering, if you ask me.
Empire State Building took one year and 45 days or 410 days.
Completed ahead of schedule.
102 floors.
7,000,000 man-hours.
3,400 workers at one time.
Five workers were killed: one worker was struck by a truck; a second fell down an elevator shaft; a third was hit by a hoist; a fourth was in a blast area; and a fifth fell off a scaffold.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/a/empirefacts.htm