Not that impressive as the amount of workers and equipment they had on staff was more than 6x what most us crews use for anything.
It looks like they had 6 cranes which is exactly 6 times the amount of cranes they have on a 500,000 square foot, 3 story high school I just finished.
Throw enough money at anything and you can finish it in an amazingly short time.
The fact that they had 6x the people does not make this less impressive… It took 6 days, even if you paid US wages, it would be fucking cheap. It takes MONTHS for this to happen in the US.
Those are very efficient workers. It must be awesome to know you have these kinds of reasonably skilled workers to throw at a project like this for next to no cost.
China is getting good at what they do. They’re many, many times more efficient at everything than the US. Sure, it may not be engineered as well, or last as long… But its CHEAP, and thats what counts to most people.
The US should be very worried about China taking over…
Wait until they reverse engineer one of the Westinghouse plants and there’s a meltdown.
LOL
i see what you did there…
The other end of the spectrum…copied from an email I was forwarded
(1) An underground garage was being dug on the south side, to a depth of 4.6 meters
(2) The excavated dirt was being piled up on the north side, to a height of 10 meters
(3) The building experienced uneven lateral pressure from south and north
(4) This resulted in a lateral pressure of 3,000 tonnes, which was greater than what the pilings could tolerate.
Thus the building toppled over in the southerly direction.
First, the apartment building was constructed
Then the plan called for an underground garage to be dug out.
The excavated soil was piled up on the other side of the building.
Heavy rains resulted in water seeping into the ground…
The building began to shift and the concrete pilings were snapped
due to the uneven lateral pressures.
The building began to tilt.
They built 13 stories on grade, with no basement, and tied it all down to hollow pilings with no rebar.
Yes because that is what counts to me when I think about being stories up in a BUILDING…
We do great things, not reckless.
Most people, that are paying for a building to be built, act based on cost.
Generally, cheaper is better, given the fact that it PROBABLY wont fail. The majority of buildings don’t fall. If they did, one would think something might be done about it. The people inside are generally blissfully unaware of the structure surrounding them.
I don’t see where this comment is going. Clearly they don’t feel the building is going to fall. If it does, its a total loss. They obviously want the building to be safe enough, along with being cheap. This is purely logic.
the one next to the satans building is my new work. supposed to be in it fall 11
I knew the steel from “cash for clunkers” would be put to good use… in China.
That construction looks great until it turns out like that pink one, or this.
SHANGHAI, China — Flames engulfed a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai on Monday, killing at least 12 people, injuring more than 90 and forcing some residents to jump from their windows to escape, according to reports.
The building in the Jing’an District of the Chinese city was being renovated when a fire broke out at 2 p.m. local time (1 a.m. ET), the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Xinhua said the flames quickly spread from scaffolding to the skyscraper. The building housed many retired teachers, Xinhua added.
The fire appeared to have been put out about six hours later, and firefighters could be seen removing bodies from the building.
Citing hospital officials, Shanghai Daily tweeted that 12 people had died and about 50 others were injured. Shanghai Daily said that about 90 people had been rescued from the site.
A firefighter told The Associated Press that people were still trapped in the building, but he did not know how many. He would not give his name, as is common with Chinese officials.
A witness said building materials caught fire, then spread to scaffolding and then to the building, Xinhua reported.
‘The glass of the windows was scalding’
Survivor Li Xiuyun, 61, told the AFP news service that she, her husband, son and a granddaughter had fled from their home on the 16th floor.
“The smoke was very strong and the glass of the windows was scalding,” she told AFP. “My son took off his socks and soaked them with water, and we used them to cover our noses. I stumbled on people on the floor when walking.”
A building resident identified as Mr. Zhou told Hong Kong broadcaster Phoenix TV that he and his wife were napping in their 23rd floor apartment when they smelled smoke.
He said they climbed down the scaffolding four stories before being rescued by firefighters.
At one point helicopters could be seen hovering over the building, and witnesses said at least one resident was rescued by a helicopter, but thick smoke hampered further efforts. By evening the helicopters were gone.
More than 80 fire trucks and hundreds of firefighters were called to battle the blaze, Shanghai state television said, and streams of water could be seen flowing into the building, which appeared to be gutted. A doctor at Shanghai’s Jing’an Hospital surnamed Zhang said more than 20 seriously hurt people had been admitted for treatment.
State-run website Eastday.com cited a construction worker surnamed Qian who escaped from the 28th story as saying crews were installing energy-saving insulation when the fire occurred.
Qian said she was working when thick, rolling smoke clouds surrounded the building and the room she was in filled up with smoke, making it difficult to breathe.
Qian said she called the city’s emergency hotline and then used a wet towel to cover her mouth and nose as she ran down a fire escape.
Yeah, I know when I finish things in a hurry it’s my best work, too :tup:
Correct, and it’s logic like that that allows for such failures.
Speaking of concrete, I am thinking you can add 30 days to that build. Although in China they probably don’t care aboot cure time. lol
Add: … or rebar, or solid concrete.
Hell, I’m sure the architect was a 12 year old boy who drew the plans up in crayon.
^Asbestos filled crayon.
Lead crayon.
Lead crayons full of industrialization on a scale the world hasn’t seen since America circa 1820-1870.
“Now in all your favorite colors and heavy metals”!
No…No it wouldn’t, You can build a prefab building in a weeks time with adequate amount of people, which is what they did there.
And when they finished, they all celebrated with shots of melamine formula. Mmmm.