China Builds 30 Storey Building In 15 Days

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdpf-MQM9vY&feature=player_embedded

China’s latest boast is a 30 floor hotel built in only 15 days and supposedly able to withstand “magnitude 9″ earthquakes.

The builders boast that they erected the 30-storey, 183,000 square foot hotel on a pristine Hunan province site in only 15 days, using prefabricated parts.
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Unbeliable. Even if they used prefabricated parts its not possible to build so fast.
 
^^ 2.6 billion "hands" can build it I am sure, in less than 15 days.

Pun intended.

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The 15 days period shows just the assembling part and not the construction part .They have done at least 1 to 1.5 years of ground work which includes pre fabricated part of work.

My factory was built in 48 hours flat , that doesn't mean they constructed in 48 hours
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^^ With China you never know, if they could bring up a fully functional 3,500 bed hospital, fully staffed with military doctors and with all the associated hardware for treating SARS during the SARS-crisis [c. June 2003] under a month.

You seriously can't say anything about the speed at which their bureaucracy and labor unions can mobilize if prodded at the right moments for the right needs [say world records and attention grabbing publicity stunts, catastrophic disasters et al].
 
Longetivity might be an issue since it Was built using prefabricated components. But maybe they do not want it to last long.

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Lets see-

The foundation is made of prefabricated concrete pillars.

The building's slabs are made of prefabricated and assembled units just screwed together. Since its screwed/bolted together, hence it is earth quake resistant to a very high degree. Its not concrete.

Since it is not concrete, it leave scope for a lot of other things mentioned there like air filtering etc.

All they had to do was just put it all together.
 
If the building has proper plumbing/electricity/furnishingsetc then the 15 days period is seriously impressive even if that made it from prefabricated parts.
 
chiron said:
If the building has proper plumbing/electricity/furnishingsetc then the 15 days period is seriously impressive even if that made it from prefabricated parts.
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If you look at the video, electric and plumbing were already built into the pre-fab panel at the factory itself. But even assembling the pre-fabs at this speed is phenomenal. Most of the flyovers built in Delhi are made of pre-fab concrete blocks but they still took more than a year to erect them.
 
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