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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- CRAFTASICabout 13 yearsi dont like time lapse
popalacaabout 13 yearscool!
agentoover 13 yearsowwwt standing
izzysk8erover 13 yearsamazing and cool- Eragonover 13 yearsthat is just amazing!!!!
- .......over 13 yearsAmazing Hotel
- Paris Loveover 13 yearsThis is soooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not sure how this can be done in that short amount of time.
- Anileighover 13 yearsthat is weird, but funny and cool at the same time
- dazmanover 13 yearsboring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
crystal66over 13 yearswow so amazing!