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
- girlover 12 yearswow
- ihatepinkover 12 yearswhy does everybody say awesome and cool? I know it is but can't you change it up a little.
- Briover 12 yearsThat's cool
- beruover 12 yearsawsome
- Enover 12 yearsThis is soooo cool i dont know how they do it but its AWESOME
- Nathan over 12 yearsWow! A 30 story hotel in China! It took 360 hours to build this!
- Entover 12 yearsCool
- kelly kellyover 12 yearswell u guys r mean!
- p.s over 12 yearsi dont even like this !!!!!!!!! it is so boring
- graceewaover 12 yearsi think that the building would have lots of mistakes because it was done to fast i think that those workers worked day and night
