cool stuff…
""Constructed in Dongting Lake in Hunan province, the hotel is 170,000 square feet and can withstand a 9.0 earthquake reports Treehugger.
According to the International Business Times, the prefabricated modules were put together in a factory and then placed on steel structures at the construction site.
The Chinese company behind the speedy design and building is Broad Group, a firm which previously built the 15-story Ark Hotel in Changsha, China, in just six days.""
The chinese should be scaring the shit out of the rest of the world…
How many people died, and how many villages were destroyed in the making of all the materials at what cost to the environment? Anything is going to go quicker without regulations or safety. My friend told me production of coil windings and castings for one of the products he developed was on hold for production b/c 200k people were killed b/c of chemicals being dumped in the water unfiltered and killed an entire population of a village down stream b/c the government said it was okay to stop filtering runoff b/c it was too expensive and not profitable to do so.
Live video of that same building from 2 months later:
i wonder if the chinese say “but its built in china” when they pick out the materials needed for the building.
Ikea skyscrapers?
Didn’t I see this many months ago or is this a new one?
I don’t know about the materials production but regulations and safety concerns? I didn’t see them building that thing out of sticks and adobe. It doesn’t seem all that complex but you have to give them a certain amount of credit for the accomplishment.
Definitely credit where credit is due, but with upstanding corporations always looking out for employees… I’m sure they’re upstanding Osha and 9001/9002 compliant like this: http://www.nyspeed.com/showthread.php?228321-Mass-Suicide-Threats-at-Xbox-360-Plant-(Foxconn)&highlight=xbox+suicide
the significant social costs are assumed… even in spam16v’s example that was a different company, different place, maybe a couple years ago… the technical achievements here are harder to overcome than correcting those social costs. the dollar cost of building the thing will simply go up (by addressing the social issues) but money is no issue for China. they can just print more of it while holding their currency artificially low anyways 
Just like the Trade Towers… :ugh:
You talking about America or China?
Was it just me, or were they working non-stop 24hrs a day?
Compare that to the North American norm of maybe 10 hours a day? and no work on weekends?
the US is the reverse… printing endless money and holding their currency artificially high 