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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rageandl0valmost 13 yearsThat's awesome! And it's energy efficient, too- A Personalmost 13 years@Sophie if you think it is "soooooooo boring!!!!!! :)" Then why did you read the whole thing?
vegetaabout 13 yearsAWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i thought that it would take a year!!!!! :)- callieyghabout 13 yearsUsually it dosen't take 360 hours it usually is a month or two.
- Sophieover 13 yearsi think this is soooooooo boring!!!!!! :)
- Sunay Tinnover 13 yearsthat was so rad... and it saves energy too!!!!
applejaxover 13 yearscool- lover 13 yearswow I bet tehy had like two breaks a day and that is it.
- Marvinover 13 years360 hours WOW! They Must be tired
- Dover 13 yearsIN 360 HOURS WOW