Developer reaffirms plan to finish world's tallest building in 90 days (China)

Cnet ^ | 11/19/1012 | Cnet

[Dallas59]

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A 220-story Sky City tower in the Chinese city of Changsha could take the crown as the world's tallest skyscraper next March with an astounding height of 2,749 feet, edging out the mega Burj Khalifa that currently stands 2,722 feet over Duba

[Covenantor]

I recall having the same set.

What makes the 11-million-square-foot Sky City so astonishing isn't its height or its appearance but rather the three-month construction plan to create the building that kicks off at the end of the year. Broad Group -- the company responsible for assembling the skyscraper -- plans to achieve these insane building speeds by using 95 percent prefabricated modular pieces that are sort of similar to a giant Lego set to construct the building.

Eleven million sq.ft. is a whopping amount of space to fill. Wonder who the 'developer' has in mind as tenants? Not to mention the vast population unleashed at ground level every evening. It's going to be some special kind of hell climbing down when the power to the elevators goes out.

[freekitty]

I hope no one actually goes into that thing.

[lucid discourse]

I’ll bet this has something to do with SANY (3-1) and CCP. SANY makes concrete pumpers. Its president is CCP crony. Changsha already has tons of vacant high rises. Mao’s old stomping grounds. 100+ degree summers. Uffda.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Hives are wonderful places for epidemics to start.

[Yo-Yo]

Can’t be done in 90 days ... it’ll take that long to dig the foundation and allow the concrete to cure...

Bah, what's the worse that can happen?

[theBuckwheat]

There will be far more challenge to making the project financially sustainable over the lifetime of the building than in the challenges of its original construction. This is a tremendous amount of office, retail and living space to put and keep on the market, not to mention the amount of electricity, sewage and services it will require.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

sewage

Sewage! They don't need no steenking sewage.

[steve86]

Vertical trailer park.

Even living in a trailer park I think that's funny.

[steve86]

Maybe the Chinese will install 5,000 tiny apartments in the lower 20 floors of each of these buildings, so the cubicle workers won't even have to commute. They'll just get out of bed and hit the elevators. Throw up malls inside them, and the tenants/employees will never have to leave.

That's probably a really good description of life in cities in 20 years, if there is any life in cities in 20 years. Throw in the Obamacare clinics, along with the euthanasia booths for the over 40s, and you're good to go.

[Lazamataz]

According to the video, it actually took under 3 minutes.

[theBuckwheat]

Will this massive building be built to the same quality and engineering standards that we see at Harbor Freight? If so, someday its failure will be a substantial disaster.

[OrioleFan]

[fella]

Maybe the Chinese will install 5,000 tiny apartments in the lower 20 floors of each of these buildings, so the cubicle workers won't even have to commute. They'll just get out of bed and hit the elevators. Throw up malls inside them, and the tenants/employees will never have to leave.

That's probably a really good description of life in cities in 20 years, if there is any life in cities in 20 years. Throw in the Obamacare clinics, along with the euthanasia booths for the over 40s, and you're good to go.

Throw in the bottom 4 floors being dedicated to security and requiring all residents to to be RFID chipped so 'Runners' can be located and you have an above ground "Logan's Run".

[clearcarbon]

I wonder if any recycled twin tower steel’s going into it.

[dalereed]

“Wonder who the ‘developer’ has in mind as tenants? “

Maybe a govwernment prison, no traffic problems and no rush hour.

A few floors for guard living quarters so it could be self contained!