China to build world's tallest building - in just 90 days

[cronus]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 40870.html

China to build world's tallest building - in just 90 days

When completed by the end of next March, Sky City in Changsha will be the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at 2,749ft (838m) high, over 220 floors. And remarkably, they’ve not started building it yet.

It took Dubai more than five years to build the world’s tallest building, the 828mBurj Khalifa, but architects and engineers at Broad Sustainable Building (BSB), a unit of the air conditioning maker Broad Group, are confident they can beat that record.

Critics have pointed out that BSB’s construction company has never built anything taller than 30 storeys before, but the builders seem unworried.

BSB senior vice-president Juliet Jiang told Construction Week Online that the company’s plan to construct the skyscraper “will go on as planned with the completion of five storeys a day.”

Designed by engineers who worked on the Burj Khalifa, Sky City will achieve the target by assembling BSB’s 95 per cent prefabricated modular technology at a breakneck construction pace. Nine of the world’s newest tallest 20 buildings are being built in China.

Adrian Smith, the Chicago-based designer of the Burj Khalifa who is working on the Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia, said at a meeting of the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Shanghai last month that rapid urbanisation in China would fuel major expansion in tall buildings.

“There are 179,000 people moving into urban areas every week. Do they go into a horizontal or a vertical city? It’s a question of economics,” said Mr Smith. BSB, currently responsible for 20 modular structures in China, demonstrated the construction method to a wider audience in January, when it constructed a 30-storey hotel in 15 days.

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[pErvinalia]

bloody hell.

[redunderthebed]

Nothing surprises me with china the ambition of china (as it always has being) is endless.

[rasetsu]

We've seen this sort of thing before. Not to worry. God will sort 'em out. Ain't no thang.

[Tyrannical]

Critics have pointed out that BSB’s construction company has never built anything taller than 30 storeys before, but the builders seem unworried.

So they are building something eight times taller than anything they have ever built before? Not sure that is such a good idea

Oh well, ironic how the Chinese Communists have Western capitalists to thank for the technology and patents that took them out of the seventeenth century.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

They're going through the cycle much faster than the US did. The fall will be greater.

[FBM]

We've seen this sort of thing before. Not to worry. God will sort 'em out. Ain't no thang.

What are you Babel-ing about?

[Svartalf]

That record breaker, it's supposed to remain standing how long?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

That record breaker, it's supposed to remain standing how long?

Long enough to make a killer Youtube.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

That's gonna use an awful lot of bamboo.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

That's gonna use an awful lot of bamboo.

Won't somebody think of the pandas!

[FBM]

That record breaker, it's supposed to remain standing how long?

You're not paying attention to China. Sign contract. Immediately bribe inspectors. Build with cheapest shit available in the shortest possible amount of time while employing the fewest legal number of trained personnel. Collect pay. Run.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Here's hoping that they can get everyone to move out of wherever they want to build it.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/we-shall-not-b ... 27115.html

[Svartalf]

Here's hoping that they can get everyone to move out of wherever they want to build it.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/we-shall-not-b ... 27115.html

They were not ofrcefully relocated to Laogai? What is China becoming?

[Mysturji]

All these so-called "sky-scrapers"... Pfft!
They can't be all that tall. I mean, god hasn't smited any of them, unlike the Tower of Babel.
That fucker must have been REALLY tall.