Journal roman_mir's Journal: Chinese Company Constructs 30 Story Building in 360 Hours 10
Chinese Sustainable Building Company, Broad Group, put together a 30 story hotel in 360 hours or 15 around the clock days of work out of structures pre-manufactured on a factory floor. The feat was accomplished in December of 2011. Using a factory floor to assemble floors and side panels allowed for very high precision in fabrication (+/- 0.2mm), better coordination of on-site construction, shorter construction time span, lower construction waste. The building includes various innovative features, such as air monitoring in every room and low energy consumption.
All of the wiring and laying of the pipes, insulation, even floor tiles is done on the factory floor as can be seen in the video. As one of the features, the building is designed to withstand magnitude-9 earthquakes.
This goes to prove a point, that innovation comes out of manufacturing and engineering needs, which means that research and development and basic sciences and need for more education is also pushed by the engineering and manufacturing sectors.
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In US it probably would take 15 days just to start talking about a 30 story building, never mind constructing it.
As to quality of the stuff - you get what you pay for, and a company that is aiming at cornering the market in cheap repetitive construction of 30 story buildings is going to do its best to make sure the quality is not an issue, otherwise they won't get far.
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Every link is corrupt? Really? You started with an assumption, and used it to prop up an example that you have no real data on. Maybe the corruption resulted in higher prices, not in decreased quality of the rivets.
The old adage still rings true: "You can have it good, fast or cheap. Pick two"
If they built it fast, if it was cheap, then it was likely the quality was cut heavily. You might be right.
Yet you started with the assumption that it was "fast and cheap", yet where's your compelling argument t
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actually when talking about engineered solutions like buildings, I think 'fast/cheap/good' are still useful somewhat when talking in proportion to one another, but on the other hand overall costs will go down as speed and quality will increase when these methods become used more and more, this construction project was more of a show, but the concept is very sound: pre-manufacture the bigger parts on a factory floor and assemble the 'lego' like blocks into the final product on site, and this did cut costs an
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very true. even as the balance of speed/cost/quality still remain ...overall efficiencies and tech improve, you end up with cheaper, faster and better.
It's the IKEA Model (Score:1)
Except instead of using the same panels / fasteners for both the Billy bookshelf and whatever bork-bork they call the drawers you have a predefined set of components to build a building.
Meaning this same company could probably whip up a small 5 story building using the same per-manufactured pieces. It's a pretty good idea, and one that American companies use - think manufactured houses. Not everyone wants a trailer for there homes, but a
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I did mark it for the front page submission, but my submissions normally end up voted down, so no dice.
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Further evidence that I've got you nailed, d_r. I'm right about your sock puppets, and that pisses you off.
I sure would like to meet you in person some day, damn_registrars.