Tech | January 11, 2012 | 3 comments

30-story building built in 15 days

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdpf-MQM9vY

ampersand
Although one is familiar with factory manufactured housing units, this video from China is both a little breath-taking and a little frightening.
If you have two billion people who need housing (and the earth has seven billion now,) this is the likely solution.
The building was built over last Christmas time and finished before New Years Eve of 2012.
For myself, I prefer building slowly, stone-by-stone, with a lot of thought and contemplation between the placement of every stone;--otherwise I fear I'd end up with my projects looking like a Chinese city.


Ah, well, welcome to your future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdpf-MQM9vY
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3 comments // 30-story building built in 15 days // Video

  • ampersand
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • ampersand:

      THANKS for this post! According to this great method you could build a very nice LARGE, TRIPLE-STORY home in 3 days AT A VERY REDUCED PRICE. With full solar on the flat roof. And cleaner air. Slap a converter on it turn the AC into DC and equip with DC appliances I'M IN.

      My computer sound is down right now but when the sound device (USB) gets here I'll watch again.

      Looks like they're working 24 hours a day building crews so in reality we're talking 45 "real days" erection time. That's why I tripled the home time to 3 days.

      I really like what they've done. Two floors a day when those "days" are really 3 apiece 8-hour workdays, PROVIDED YOU HAVE PLENTY OF WORKERS TOO, I would feel completely safe with this building => No Problemo.

      VIVA THE CHINESE! BRAVO THE CHINESE! MASTER BUILDERS!!! THEY WOULD HAVE THE HEYDAY OF THEIR LIVES WITH MY STACKABLE SPACE ELEVATOR DESIGN.

    • 5 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • ampersand:

      My main concern would be water or sewer system leaks... so at some point of construction (before adding all the hanging celings) I would strongly suggest doing pressure checks to confirm all pipe connections are Solid Non-leakers. Wiring Ditto.

      Otherwise you could get the building loaded with Occupants and water dripping somewhere hard to find. Wiring Ditto. I despise surprises. I'm assuming they aren't using the sheetrock that absorbs moisture off the pipes in the walls too.

      If they have those three points taken care of they could rack up.

    • 5 months ago
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