hope it stays up for a number of years...


















Chinese builder puts up 57-story skyscraper in 19 days

By PENG PENG and DIDI TANG, Associated Press
Updated 5:49 am, Thursday, April 30, 2015



CHANGSHA, China (AP) — A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world's fastest builder after erecting a 57-story skyscraper in 19 working days in central China.

The Broad Sustainable Building Co. put up the rectangular, glass-and-steel Mini Sky City in the Hunan provincial capital of Changsha using a modular method, assembling three floors per day, company vice president Xiao Changgeng said.

The company, which has ambitions to assemble the world's tallest skyscraper at 220 floors in only three months, worked on Mini Sky City in two spurts separated by winter weather. Its time-lapse video of the rapid assembly has become popular on Chinese video-sharing sites since it was first uploaded on YouTube.

"With the traditional method, they have to build a skyscraper brick by brick, but with our method, we just need to assemble the blocks," company engineer Chen Xiangqian said.

Such modular approaches have been used for high-rise apartment blocks elsewhere, including in Britain and the U.S. Some critics say the method could lead to cityscapes with overly uniform architecture.

Liu Peng, associate director of the engineering consulting firm ARUP Beijing, said the method is worth developing because it could become a safe and reliable way to build skyscrapers rapidly.

"But it is not perfect, and it does not meet all kinds of personalized demands," Liu said. "People nowadays want more personalized architecture."

Mini Sky City, which has 19 atriums, 800 apartments and office space for 4,000 people, goes on sale in May. The structure is safe and can withstand earthquakes, Xiao said.

The Changsha-based company spent 4½ months fabricating the building's 2,736 modules before construction began. The first 20 floors were completed last year, and the remaining 37 were built from Jan. 31 to Feb. 17 this year, Xiao said. The company has honed its technology to accelerate its construction speed from two floors to three floors a day, he said.

"This is definitely the fastest speed in our industry," Xiao said.

The company is awaiting approval for its 220-floor Sky City in Changsha.

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Tang reported from Beijing.

hmmmm... hope say no be on top people e go end

all this things na lie


u know how long it will take for a pillar to dry??

When papa oyegun never finish im 2rooms bungalow in the village for 8years now

Well, I just hope the building won't be a made in china product (chinko things)

jamex93:
all this things na lie


u know how long it will take for a pillar to dry??

Special machines are used in drying pillars in super structures

All I can say is...

It is not of him that runneth...

It isn't how fast...

BUT CAN I ADD THAT THIS IS QUITE IMPRESSIVE

i hope this building will not collapse

himkers:


Special machines are used in drying pillars in super structures

bros.....

na lie

Winch pple

Chinese Are Superhumans. Even America Is As Afraid As You Can Imagine Of Chinese's Technological And Military Might.

jamex93:



bros.....

na lie

Google is ur friend

19 days and sky scrapper?
Impossible pair

OK oo. Maybe I should contract them for my farm construction.

Should I say surprised or not

While Africans build churches.