If this is not a hoax, then America is in for a steeper decline than anyone expected
Aaaaaaay. So this is what the Chinese do with America's money.
No word on quality control. But if the Chinese can pull this off, then Ñooooooo !!! We are toast, and so is the rest of the world.
Unlesss China manages to anger radical Muslims and they then start ramming their hijacked planes into Chinese pre-fab hyper-skyscrapers.
For the original article and an incredible time-lapse video of a previous project by this architectural firm, go here.
From Gizmodo
China Will Build the Tallest Building In the World -- 220 stories -- in Just 90 Days
Jesus DiazAccording 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 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."
Record numbers
Unlike the Burj Khalifa, the tower will be mostly habitable. Its final height will be 2,749 feet high (838 meters). Compared that to the Burj's 2,719 feet (829 meters), which include the spire at the top resulting in a total of 163 floors.Sky City will use an astonishing 220,000 tons of steel. The structure will be able to house 31,400 people of both "high and low income communities". The company says that the residential area will use 83-percent of the building, while the rest will be offices, schools, hospitals, shops and restaurants. People will move up and down using 104 high speed elevators.
The record figures don't stop there: in addition to the 90-day construction time—as opposed to the 210 days initially reported by the Chinese media—the company claims it will cost $1,500 per square meter as opposed to the Burj's $15,000 per square meter, all thanks to the prefab technology.
They also claim it will be able to sustain earthquakes of a 9.0 magnitude and be resistant to fire for "up to three hours," as well as be extremely energy efficient thanks to thermal insulation, four-panned windows and different air conditioning techniques that were already used in their previous constructions.
To be honest, it all seems like a tall tale to me—no pun intended. Although the credentials of the company seem to be quite serious, one thing is to build a 30-story hotel in 15 days and the other is to built the largest skyscraper in the world in 90 days. It just boggles the mind. Maybe it was April's Fool in China yesterday.
Whatever it is, we will discover it in March. If it's confirmed, the time-lapse videos are going to be epic.
Update: These are the company headquarters in China. They call them Broad Town. Yes, that's a huge pyramid at the bottom.
It seems like an incredible feat, but then again, I went to the time-lapse film and they had people working day-and-night, so they can pack at the very least two-days worth of work into one day. Still, even if it's really 180 days worth of work, instead of 90 days, its still amazing. Very often, constructions made so quickly are faulty and cheaply made. As the old adage goes, "haste makes waste," and when it comes to such a large building, haste could be deadly.
I live in NYC and they've been building the new skyscraper where the World Trade Center used to stand for years now, and it's still not completed. What a contrast!
Exactly, I was going to make the same point regarding all the time that has taken to reconstruct the World Trade Center do to all the over-regulations and bureaucracies that exist, it reflects the present reality of this nation and where it is headed. Granted, the Empire State and the Chrysler Building were both build in about a year back in 1929-30.
Even if the Chinese don't make this building, the fact still remains that they have constructed and reconstructed entire cities in a time frame of 20 years while most of USA's cities have been stagnant at best or decaying at worst.
Why all this? Because while the communists of China are become fascists the capitalists of USA are becoming socialists.
Here is a then and now of Shanghai withing a 20 year time frame.
http://twistedsifter.com/2011/01/picture-of-the-day-shanghai-1990-vs-2010/
All that said, besides New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Boston, and Houston most other American cities have lost significance and status. Simply put, they have decayed (some of them into nothing more than 3/4 ghetto).
Tampa, Baltimore, Detroit, Los Angeles, Phoenix, New Orleans, Philadelphia, they all had better days. Then comes the more stable cities, all secondary for that matter, the likes of Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Columbus, Denver, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, which are not expecting a boom either.
Impressive as it sounds, keep in mind that the 90 (or 180 or 270) day headline number is just for the stacking and assembly of pre-fabricated units. Who knows how long the manufacturing of the 1000s of pre-fab units took.
Designed by the same firm that engineered the Burj over in Dubai, correct?
An American firm.
In other words, once again a bunch of posturing, tyrannical jackasses are crowing the glory of something regarding which they had to hire outsiders to do all the heavy thinking.
But hey, at least in China the laborers will probably be payed something, and be kept in conditions at least vaguely fit for human beings, unlike the miserable mass slavery that Dubai is dependent upon.