Chinese Build 15-Story Hotel In Just Six Days, Rest On Seventh

[John Hinds]

Is this really going ahead though?
Last I heard they hadn't got approval from the local authorities to build it.

http://www.constructionweekonline.co.../#.UKtc-LtpiPB

Broad Sustainable Building (BSB), a subsidiary of the Broad Group based in Changsha in Hunan province, China, insists that it will deliver its 220-storey Sky City within the targeted 90 days, rather than in 210 days as rumoured by the media.

Designed by engineers that worked on the Burj Khalifa, Sky City will achieve the target by using BSB’s 95%-prefabricated modular technology at the astonishing construction pace of five storeys a day.

Juliet Jiang, senior VP of Broad Group, has said that the company’s plan to construct its 838m skyscraper by the Xiangjiang River in Changsha city “will go on as planned with the completion of five storeys a day.”

Broad, which has built a total 20 structures in China, demonstrated its rapid construction method to a wider audience in January, when the company constructed a 30-storey hotel in just 15 days.

Work on the foundations is expected to go ahead by the end of the month, while the planned three month construction period runs from the end of the year to the end of March 2013.

[Tom In Chicago]

^That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. . .

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[M II A II R II K]

China To Build Tallest Skyscraper In 90 Days

Read More: http://news.sky.com/story/1014603/ch...per-in-90-days

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From the foundations upwards, the whole construction will be erected within three months at a rate of five floors a day. Work will start at the end of this month and it should all be finished by the end of February.

- The building will be called Sky City and its statistics are quite remarkable. It will be 838 metres high, with 220 floors and a construction area of one million square metres. To achieve that, 200,000 tons of steel will be used. There will be space for 31,000 people inside, who will be able to move up and down with the help of 104 high speed lifts.

- Some 83% of the building will be for residential use, with room for 17,400 people. It will also contain a hotel with a capacity for 1,000. There will be schools educating up to 4,600 children and a hospital which will treat 1,400 patients. Only 3% of the building will be for office use. Any remaining space will be shops and restaurants. The building will be just a few metres taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai but will be constructed at a fraction of the cost.

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[speedy1979]

India is joining the prefab party.

http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/CHD...94400-PHO.html

[WestCoast]

This is awesome.

Hopefully in the future there will be the ability to have varying options on the exterior (colors, textures, contours, etc).

Too bad the US doesn't try stuff like this on a grand scale!

[beaver12]

My latest info (from someone in the know over there in a related field) tells me this one is definitely a 'goer'.

Will be interesting to watch.

Completion date does not include fitout, but even so, pretty impressive, and its meant to be ecologically friendly. ie low carbon footprint.

[Surrealplaces]

Not related to the tall tower they want to build in China, but there have been rumors that a company in China wants to use this technique in my hometown of Calgary. There's a site that has been built to grade, and has been sitting idle for a couple of years now, and that's where they would want to build.

Just wondering if anyone knows if this method is significantly cheaper? It's definitely faster.

[dchan]

Faster = cheaper. Building faster means you drive down labor costs. Pre-fabricated sections also drives down labor costs for those sections.

[mrnyc]

brooklyn is in on it too. forest city ratner of cleveland is building prefab apt bldgs around the new barclays center arena over and around the atlantic rail yards.

[scalziand]

I'm not sure if the Barclay's center towers are supposed to use the same flavor of prefab that Broad Group is using, since I thought that Barclay Center was proposed before Broad developed there technology.

[amor de cosmos]

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