Skyscraper in 360 hours (Only in China)
 

Now that's efficient :thumbsup

Thank the good lord for the Chinese

Kim Hong Il could have done it quicker but he's busy breaking the world record for who can sleep the longest.

Impressive.

Well, the Chinese have a experience building buildings that no one will ever live in.

All kidding aside, in Vegas on year at a show once summer I had to sit in a booth all day long and they were building a new tower at the hotel. I was a bit surprised to notice that they were adding in two floors a day.

Kim Jong Hung III ftw !!

Thats insane, and its built to code, earthquake resistant and energy efficient. Insane.
WG

Yeah, do you really want to be in it during an earthquake? If what I buy that was made in china is any indication, I wouldnt want to be in it if theres even a fucking breeze outside.

Was it a concrete building? How does the concrete support the weight when it has not had timeto cure properly?

don't worry, it's "Made in China" :1orglaugh

Not a chance. It's all made with counterfeit lego - "made in china"

Cool :thumbsup

Won't be able to do that one... Adam is currently the winner by far.

that is crazy..

All hail our new chinese overlords.

erection of a building isn't the hard part if all the parts fit properly. that takes a very good steel fabrication shop and a very good detailer (the person who makes the detailed plans and drawings). considering it went up that quickly i'm assuming they had both. they also preassembled everything before it even reached the job site. you can see them doing the ducting, wiring, and lighting in the shop. lets not forget that this building was a monotonous box as well. it's not like they were putting up a dome or radius beams in some sort of extravagant lobby or something.

so what i'm trying to say is there was a fuck ton of work done on that building that took a lot longer than 15 days to get it to go up that smoothly. either way it's always cool seeing the finished product of hard work.

I wouldn't come within 100 meters of it...China, land of exploding office chairs and cell phones...lol

There is all sorts of cement mixes. And I'm sure they don't remove the supports for a day or two after pouring.

A number of dictionaries have provided different suggestions as to the origin of chink, there is similar cloudiness about the name China so the discussion reduces to guesswork.
Although some of these suggestions are that it originated from the Chinese courtesy ching-ching, or that the word evolved from the other meaning of chink, which is a small crevice, being a simile for small or slanted eyes (Sometimes, the word is indeed employed as an adjective, as in chink-eyed).

Earthquake-tested too. Sick. China's amazing.

very cool.

bro i worked in the steel biz for years and my dad has been the president at several steel fab shops. chinese steel is the biggest piece of shit on the planet. our steel providers used to try and slip in a few beams and tubes and shit like that here and there because it was cheap. they did it to make a few extra bucks and hope we didn't catch it or whatever i guess. but it was fucking dangerous. occasionally id find a beam or some tube steel that you could literally see through the web of the beam or the wall of a stick of tube. aka there were fucking holes in the steel. it got so bad that everyone in the biz now requires mill certs for every single piece of steel that runs through their fab shops. so they can verify whether or not the steel has come from a shitty country like china and they will send it back immediately.

a lot of new buildings now require US steel only for this reason. it's gotten to the point that even the fasteners like TC bolts and studs and shit like that need mill certs to verify they don't come from china or anywhere near there.

whats really scary to me is that the new suspension bridge in San Francisco that connects to Oakland was mostly shipped in from china. think about that for a second with the facts i've posted above. especially in a earthquake prone area right on the ocean and how it spans over salt water it will most definitely have corrosion problems.

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For sure it took many hours preparing, maybe longer as 360 hrs

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crazy!!!

I wonder if it's just sitting there vacant now? There's really no need to slap a building together in 15 days other than to show the world that you can. It reminds me of those aliens in Stephen King's Tommyknockers, they have this limited form of genius which makes them very inventive and efficient, but does not provide any philosophical or ethical insight at all. Kind of like an ant colony.

I'm sure the building standards are top notch, just like everything else in China.

Fast, yes. Quality? Maybe.

its the CHINESE.............Im sure their brochure says "its built to code, earthquake resistant and energy efficient" but my guess is its already got killer mold growing in its sheetrock and 5 works died while building it. Its the CHINESE. (not born n raised in brentwood chinese - born in china chinese) if its one thing the chinese excel at, its making shit as cheap and dangerous as possible.

15 days... no way the quality can be spot on, not a chance. Of all things to rush... a building that will hold hundreds or thousands of people...

nothing like some chinese drywall.

wow, amazing :S

sounds like america as well.

Holy shit!!! Thats fast!

And the point of doing it this fast was ?????

Reminds me of the US tv shows they play like Extreme Home Make Over or something where they built a house in a week lol. Great quality.

off topic Scott - gotta compliment you on your Shay Loren avatar. Thats a girl built for a camera.

Earthquake proof because they topple instead of crumble!
http://s.wsj.net/media/shanghai_buil...0629035740.jpg

No arguments here !!! :thumbsup

It seemed to be mostly steel. The would put up steel beams to hold the floor above it, hundreds of them, and then had two special cranes just seemed to pour concrete - They were like fifteen stories tall and instead of a cable with a hook, it was a flexable pipe that seemed to pour concrete or something similar. Then they would lift up these huge prefab pieces. It was amazing really. I never saw something like that.