There's a 200 yard bridge outside Providence RI (Pawtucket River Bridge) that is 160 past due and now has to be taken down and started over because the ibeams didn't line up. USA - USA!

Later that day...

How much time did it really take if you include the making/delivery of the pre-fab pieces?

Sure you might be able to build a 30 story earthquake resistant building in 360 hours but can you have Hooters girls with bra sizes bigger than an A-cup?

Didn't think so.

Yes, China seems like a reliable source of information.

These guys previously did this one:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiog9a_chinese-build-15-story-hotel -s ix-days_lifestyle (new window)

lohphat: Doesn't concrete take time to cure properly?

Hoover dam blows my mind.

/farkin romans

Don't believe every claim the Chinese make, especially as it regards to quality.

/sorry Chinese farkers, your folk built their own reputation for cheapness.

BKITU: Was it cheap and fast, or was it good and fast?

There's no such thing as good and fast. Also, CHINA. It's probably made from cardboard and the bones of executed criminals, held together with watered down paste.

Mentat: You're welcome to book the first room subby. I'll take my chances in this rickety hut over here.

They can accommodate that.



Photo take five minutes from my old apartment.

I'll bet they don't even have a refrigerator. The poor int he US are so lucky.

I hope they bought their sheetrock from the USA.

FYI - you can't build a five-star hotel. The building itself is a relatively minor part of the rating.

Do they deliver?

This thing is actually just a proof of concept for the main course, which will be a 660 meter (or so) skyscraper that will hold like 100,000 people, that they say they will build over the course of six months. Of course everyone was laughing about that until a couple of months ago when they did the 15 story and then the 30 story one. Now there is a bit of a tendency to not doubt them.

I saw the video of the earthquake test...it looked surprisingly solid.

it didn't take 6 days. It looks like most of that was prefab. it took six days to stack it all up and connect all the prefab units. not saying the work is shoddy or quality work, just that it didn't take 6 days to build if you actually consider all the "pre-work" done prior to the work done in the video.

They're just faster because they have smaller hands, so they work faster.

Let's set the place on fire and see what happens

Calling your building "earthquake-resistant" seems like a good way to jinx it.

trippdogg: FYI - you can't build a five-star hotel. The building itself is a relatively minor part of the rating.

You can build a business from the ground up.

Will it be abandoned within a matter of years like so many of China's massive testaments to conspicuous capitalism?

MaxxLarge: This just in:

[ih2.redbubble.net image 375x360]


You are correct sir!

Built in 360 hours.

Burns to the ground in 3.

Man thats just amazing.... this is why china owns the world...

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: Let's set the place on fire and see what happens

OK

Icetech3: Man thats just amazing.... this is why china owns the world...

But only on paper. LMAO

But seriously, moduler construction is rather good at two things, being cheap to put up and beaing cheap to take down.

THIS (new window) was my experience in a "4 Star" hotel in China.

I'd be surprised if one built in 360 hours actually remains intact after a further 360 hours.