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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fire01234over 13 yearsthats awsome- AsianBuffaloover 13 yearscool
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gothicelmoover 13 yearsThat looks hard- sfqw34gvaxbfover 13 yearsawesome
Nabiah Khanover 13 yearsThats pretty fast. Do you think they would take just as long, longer, or a shorter length of time do build a homeless shelter or a library?
gracewover 13 yearsthe building one thingy mabob built in 15 days thats pretty cool- gracewover 13 yearsthe building one thingy mabob built in 15 days thats pretty cool
- kitkatover 13 yearsi live in this awsome hotel'
- kateover 13 yearswow
- Jaylenover 13 yearsthat is awesome i cant believe they they built a 30 story hotel in 360 hours that seems impossible