Posted on 11/20/2012 7:26:23 AM PST by Hojczyk
According to its engineers, this will be the tallest skyscraper in the world by the end of March of 2013. Its name is Sky City, and its 2,749 feet (838 meters) distributed in 220 floors will grow in just 90 days in Changsha city, by the Xiangjiang river. Ninety days!
It's not a joke. According to the construction company, the skyscraper will be built in just 90 days at the unbelievable rate of five floors per day. It's hard to believe, but they claim the building has been designed by some of the engineers who previously worked at the Burj Khalifa. It is also the same firm that built a full 30-story hotel in 15 days—which yes, is still standing and in perfect working condition.
Foundation work is beginning at the end of the month, once the Chinese authorities give the final go ahead to the project.
Pre-fab magic They will be able to achieve this impossibly fast construction rate by using a prefabricated modular technology developed by Broad Sustainable Building, a company that has built 20 tall structures in China so far, including the that 30-story hotel.
Since they built that hotel, the company has been perfecting their technology, which they are now claiming will turn their project into the world's tallest skyscraper in just three months. That's a whooping five floors per day, which seems just absurd. According to Construction Week Online, the company is very serious about it. The senior VP of the Broad Group, Juliet Jiang, has publicly said that they "will go on as planned with the completion of five storeys a day."
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I was a small-time cable operator in a prior life (haven't watched television for 11 years).
One day I was running a new drop into a Chinese restaurant. Working in the rear of the building, I looked through a window and saw a pan of meat in marinade sitting on a bench just outside the bathroom door.
No more Chinese for this country boy.
Like being in a honey comb.
You mean it ain't been perfected yet and that first building was just a test????
Go figure, how many years did it take just to decide on what to build on Ground Zero........
>> “If it doesn’t fall over.” <<
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I bought some chinese welding rods last year...
Unbelievable crap!
It’ll fall.
No doubt. I’m sure people have plenty of stories about the hygene in asian restaurants. What’s weird to me is no matter how nice the restaurant seems to be the bathrooms are always nasty.
This Chinese boasting is supposed to be impressive.
Instead, it’s just worrisome. No sane person would want to inhabit a titanic of a building built in rapid and slipshod fashion.
The massive corruption in the Chinese economy fuels projects like this: the corrupt loans that will never be paid back, the corrupt officials and contractors all in line for their take of the spoils.
The actual building is an afterthought, a byproduct and symbol of the corruption needed to build it. Anybody who would actually inhabit it is a fool, which is why so many of these buildings remain empty.
No, there are safety standards in force here, thnak God. Have you been keeping up with current events? A multiple sections of a brand new elevated highway collapsed. Hundreds of people were killed when a high speed train left its tracks. It goes on and on.
well played!
Meanwhile, the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge is being built with steel and materials imported from China, and it’s only taken them...hold on, carry the one divided by...since about 1990 to get almost done. New math.
I’m waiting to see the Three Gorges Dam let loose. Surf’s up!
Also keep in mind that many large portions of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge were prefabbed in China and shipped here. Not built here despite complaints from local construction outfits. We don’t really know how they constructed those pieces, but they made them fast.
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