China scares me! Complete 15 story hotel built and completed in 6 days!

[LiLWaynE]

WOW is all i have to say. The Chinese REALLY are putting the rest of the world to shame. I was just watching NBC nightly news with brian williams or whatever his name is, and he did a story and showed a time lapse video of this hotel that was just recently constructed in China in 6 days! SIX DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOWOWOWOW!!!!!!

take a look at this, and just be amazed as I was...

http://www.businessinsider.com/15-story-hotel-in-shanghai-built-in-just-6-days-2010-11

imagine how much the building company profited!

"hello mr building company, i would like a hotel built"

"SURE THING, we will have it ready for you in 6 days!"

LOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Im guessing it was a non-union company that did the construction...

talk about "having your shit together!"

 

[spurr]

It's not what it seems, they cheated because the foundation was pre-poured and they used pre-fab building structures. All they had to due was show up and put the pieces together in 6 days; like a huge Lego set!

 

[arcticsun]

wouldnt want to live there tbh!

 

[Stoner4Life]

I'm sure it's just like all the other substandard shit they make today.

 

[LiLWaynE]

It's not what it seems, they cheated because the foundation was pre-poured and they used pre-fab building structures. All they had to due was show up and put the pieces together in 6 days; like a huge Lego set!

still though dude, that is a pretty remarkable feat.

I have a gas station near my house that was just recently built in my area... its a simple brick building that is no bigger then 1000sq feet... I was blown away by how quick they had it complete, and it was probably around 2 months....

then i see this video and i cannot help but to think WOW.....even IF the foundation was pre-poured and pre-fab'd. The fact that they had the intelligence to do this is fair and still counts in my book...

I am sure there are some builders who have excellent operational and logistical management skills in America with the ability to have structures built pretty quick, but after seeing this video, I cannot help but to think that the Chinese are more educated and superior to Americans when it comes to operational and logistical management....

what is it going to take for America to start competing on a global scale??? where did we go wrong??? poor schooling?? video games?? television?? too many extra-curriculars?? too much focus on who's fucking who??

I know I would NEVER be able to contribute to the uprising of america, but I am sure that there are millions of potential geniuses out there in the US who would help us compete on a global scale IF
they were forced (like the chinese) to focus on important and productive things, instead of wasting their time and energy on getting first place in a video game, watching how well famous people dance, obsessively keeping tabs on their friends' photos and information on facebook, and welll.... i can go on and on with examples but i am sure you get my point....

what the hell has to happen in order for things to start to change [for the better] around this beautiful, privileged country?



Affectionately Stoned,

Wayne the Little....

P.S. S4L, NICE TO SEE YOU BACK POPS! ITS BEEN A MINUTE OLD MAN!

 

[ibjamming]

what the hell has to happen in order for things to start to change [for the better] around this beautiful, privileged country?

We need to be FREE again...free to do what WE want...not what the government TELLS us we have do.

You want a building put up in 6 days? Let the construction company hire the people it WANTS to hire, no quotas.

You want our schools to excel? Stop the affirmative action.

You want the best? Then let the "geniuses" free to be a genius! Don't constrain them with political correctness.

"Equality" is what destroyed this country.

 

[SCROG McDuck]

still though dude, that is a pretty remarkable feat.

I have a gas station near my house that was just recently built in my area... its a simple brick building that is no bigger then 1000sq feet... I was blown away by how quick they had it complete, and it was probably around 2 months....

then i see this video and i cannot help but to think WOW.....even IF the foundation was pre-poured and pre-fab'd. The fact that they had the intelligence to do this is fair and still counts in my book...

I am sure there are some builders who have excellent operational and logistical management skills in America with the ability to have structures built pretty quick, but after seeing this video, I cannot help but to think that the Chinese are more educated and superior to Americans when it comes to operational and logistical management....

what is it going to take for America to start competing on a global scale??? where did we go wrong??? poor schooling?? video games?? television?? too many extra-curriculars?? too much focus on who's fucking who??

I know I would NEVER be able to contribute to the uprising of america, but I am sure that there are millions of potential geniuses out there in the US who would help us compete on a global scale IF
they were forced (like the chinese) to focus on important and productive things, instead of wasting their time and energy on getting first place in a video game, watching how well famous people dance, obsessively keeping tabs on their friends' photos and information on facebook, and welll.... i can go on and on with examples but i am sure you get my point....

what the hell has to happen in order for things to start to change [for the better] around this beautiful, privileged country?



Affectionately Stoned,

Wayne the Little....

P.S. S4L, NICE TO SEE YOU BACK POPS! ITS BEEN A MINUTE OLD MAN!

I agre with you, mostly LilWayne...

Where are we going wrong? Govt support of Union participation!

Look at the american automobile.. UAW management..
Bail them out? BS. Unions lost nothing.
Drunks and drug adicts (OOPS!) (not 'all' UAW workers) building our automobiles.. how comforting..

Education? Educational unions keep 'deadbeat' teachers,
teaching at a deadbeat evel and we wonder why.
Unions loose nothing.

Reality shows... turn off the TV and go the fuck out there
and have your own reality show america.

High; watching FOX news (my favorite) and pissed off at
government in general.

American Unions require 6 days just to get everyone at the worksite.

 

[BudToker]

I like to watch the time lapse video and imagine that the structure is being built by robot-machines 50 years in the future!! Woohoo...

-BT

 

[BrainSellz]

We need to be FREE again...free to do what WE want...not what the government TELLS us we have do.

This reminded me of a "cut" someone took from a comedian and put it in there track:


"Go back to bed America, your government is in control again

Here you are America
You are free to do as we tell you
You are free to do as we tell you"

Cant remember his name however the guy who spoke that went missing years ago, dunno why or whatever. It came from a track "called we want your soul" by adam freeland jic fyi

Something cool about Adam Freeland's name is: "A-dam Free-land" in other words it says a damn free land...brainsellz

 

[Jaymer]

Please for the love of anyone do not detour any of the limelight of this entertaining feat into anything competitive, I can already hear the lean in the youtube comments, props goes to China very quick, and I saw an Expo logo at the end there so any affiliates get congrats on all the recent works and exhibits put together for that too, more often also.


another video from Broad (also a 2010 Shanghai World Expo partner) [QUOTERome wasn't built in a day, but a Shanghai Expo pavilion can beQUOTE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnexQyMtaQU&feature=share

Here is more info on the Pavilion from China Daily

Expo pavilion built in 24 hours
By WEI TIAN (China Daily)

Broad pavilion, one of 17 corporate pavilions at the Shanghai Expo, was completed within 24 hours. provided to china daily

Group builds 6-story energy efficient Expo pavilion in less than a day, presenting a model for the future of residential communities, offices and hotels

Rome wasn't built in a day, but a Shanghai Expo pavilion can be as contractors proved this month by having the Broad pavilion up and running in just 24 hours.

The Broad pavilion was the 17th and final corporate pavilion at the Expo site.

"We've been preparing for two months, but producing the prefabricated parts took us less than a week," said Fu Lixin, the man in charge of the six-story, 3,200-sq-m pavilion.

"This is the way to build houses in the future. The building itself will be the largest exhibit at Expo," Fu said, adding that most of the floors were completed within 30 minutes and the job finished by 10 pm the same day.

Broad, the world's largest producer of non-electric (lithium bromide) air conditioners, wanted a structure to exemplify its trademarks of innovative technology and sustainable development.

Pavilion plans were delayed after Broad was named the official global partner of the Shanghai 2010 Expo in January 2009, but were finally realized in a race-against-the-clock construction project on March 6.

The finished product is an L-shaped, brick-and-steel structure that rises 20 meters. The bricks were delivered from the group's home base in Hunan province.

Designed to save energy and be environmentally friendly, the pavilion will only consume 20 percent of the materials used by other pavilions of a comparable size, while consuming just one-sixth of the energy of similar-sized pavilions.

It is also designed to minimize site waste. With construction waste accounting for 20 to 30 percent of urban refuse in modern cities, the pavilion uses prefabricated materials brought directly from Broad's factories to trim its waste to 1 percent. As the entire structure is assembled from prefabricated parts, it can also be dissembled and reused after the exhibition.

Expo pavilion built in 14 hours

This is the fourth building of its kind the group has built over the past eight months, including an apartment block, hotel and office. Broad president Zhang Yue said the company is planning to construct 30 more buildings overseas and another 15 in China, including a 50-story hotel in Beijing, using the same construction methods.

Zhang is also deputy president of the sustainable building committee of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and is part of a UNEP team working to decrease energy and materials consumed by construction projects worldwide by 80 percent.

"We're still looking at lowering the energy consumption in our buildings," Fu said. "Our next goal is to totally rely on non-fossil fuels, by which I mean clean energy such as solar and wind power."

The earthquake that devastated parts of Sichuan province in May 2008 put China's construction industry in the spotlight, especially its use of shoddy materials and thin walls lacking steel support beams. Similar tragedies in Haiti and Chile in recent months have again drawn attention to the importance of building safety.

Sustainable buildings, although built more quickly and with fewer materials, are safer than regular concrete buildings, said Fu. On Nov 11 last year, Broad produced a 1:4 scale model building that could withstand a 9-magnitude earthquake, according to tests conducted by the China Academy of Building Research.

"There were two reasons for the building's success. First, the components were connected by screw bolts, which gave it more flexibility than traditional steel structures, which are welded together," Fu said.

"Another key point is the weight. Normal concrete weighs about two tons per square meter, whereas sustainable buildings only weigh 500 kilograms per square meter."

Chinese buildings are usually designed to last from 50 to 100 years. However, steel structures such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, built for the 1889 Paris Expo, have proven they can stand the test of time. Given the proper maintenance, sustainable buildings can last for up to 1,000 years, Fu said.

Not bad considering such structures only cost an average 20 percent more to build.

Visit

differentenergy.net for more photos
broad.com for company information

 

[ddrew]

That looks like the death trap of the century.

What are those support beams made of that one guy can lift them like that?
Heavy duty Aluminum foil is my guess

 

[tonto]

I like to watch the time lapse video and imagine that the structure is being built by robot-machines 50 years in the future!! Woohoo...

-BT

or that those red vans are meth labs handing out supplies, then is really does make sense

 

[compost]

lets see if its still there after the first typhoon.

 

[KharmaGirl]

Major damage from typhoons is largely in coastal areas and mountainous soft earth areas. My sister just went thru the big one, passed thru her city but she isn't on the coast so all that happened was she lost power for a bit.

 

[BigSwifty]

I heard a statistic about a year ago that China was completing a coal-fired power plant EVERY SINGLE WEEK! That is even more impressive. These pre-fabbed buildings go up pretty easily as mentioned earlier... it's like a giant tinker toy set. We could probably pull that off in the US. But a large coal-fired power plant is like a 3-5 year construction project. Pretty fuckin' amazing to be completing construction on one every week.

http://www.economist.com/node/10145492?story_id=10145492

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6769743.stm (BBC is even saying 2 coal-fired plants a week!)

 

[Guywithoutajeep]

Let me know when their cities aren't completely riddled with pollution, when 8 middle class men don't have to share a single apartment to afford a roof over their head, and the countryside isn't completely dissemated by poverty.

Yeah when they fix all those things and stop subsidizing all their manufacturing I'll be scared of them. For now they're a pathetic third world country.

I'd love to see the quality on these pre-fab projects. Chinese quality is by far the lowest in the world. The roof will fall in on their heads guaranteed.

 

[robbiedublu]

I can see the next headline. 3.5 EARTHQUAKE COLLAPSES CHINESE HOTEL !! THOUSANDS CRUSHED IN THE RUBBLE!!

Life is cheap in places like China. Not sure thats what we should be trying to emulate.

 

[headband 707]

I don't know if I would call that remarkable lol More like dangerous as shit when the shit hits the fan lol Kinda like their plastic toys,, fun to look at but once you start playing with them they break! lol....Sure you can make ants work fast but the question is should you? LOL There is a reason they say "Rome wasn't built in a day"....peace out Headband707

 

[ddrew]

I can see the next headline. 3.5 EARTHQUAKE COLLAPSES CHINESE HOTEL !! THOUSANDS CRUSHED IN THE RUBBLE!!

.

Apparently you think that thing's a lot sturdier then I do.

Headline
STRONG BREEZE COLLAPSES CHINESE HOTEL!!

 

[HippyJohnny]

Ever play Command and Conquer?