Video Of The Week - A 30-Story Hotel In 360 Hours
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Construction can be a slow laborious process - The bigger the building, the more time it takes right? Apparently not, if you take a look at this time-lapse video of a 30-story, 183,00 square foot T30 hotel that recently went up in China's Hunan Province - It's total construction time? A mere 360 hours!
Two hundred super speedy construction workers toiled round the clock for 15-days, painstakingly mounting the sustainable prefabricated modules onto a steel structure. And for those who believe that this can only result in shoddy architecture, think again.
According to The Broad Group, the Chinese firm behind this hotel, it is strong enough to withstand a 9.0 magnitude earthquake - Or in other words, much stronger than structures constructed in the old-fashioned way! And that's not all - The building is also 'green' - It is five times more energy efficient than similar structures and, generates a fraction of the waste!
Resource: inhabitat.com
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196 Comments
- jeromeabout 13 yearsSounds cool
- Calebabout 13 yearsAwesome i cant belive that it is impossible
- xtraabout 13 yearsawesome
- Breadabout 13 yearsGood job
- Breadabout 13 yearsGreat
- volly-ball531about 13 yearsThat is amazing! And done so fast!
- nadaelabout 13 yearsi can't even write an essay in 15 days!
- voldermort1about 13 yearsthat is very weird.
- nadaelabout 13 yearsha ! and people thought i was tall
- Yazzawsomnesabout 13 yearshey do u guyz thik your eyes will pop if u were in the 30th floor
- jerseygirl3about 13 yearswow! That is AWSOME!