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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- coolioover 12 yearscool
- coolioover 12 yearscoolio
- Enter your nameover 12 yearsI WOULD BE SCARED NO WAY I SMART
- Mikaover 12 yearsWow! I do not know if I would trust staying in that hotel!
- person over 12 yearsman, if i worked there it would be more like... i don't know but more than that!!!!!!!!!=-)
- mikaylaover 12 yearsits quite interesting to see all this but i like the 350 story hotel cool
- hoboover 12 yearsi LOVE it
- snowover 12 yearsi am so doing this article
- blakeover 12 yearsi wonder if it would take more/less time to take it apart.
- blakeover 12 yearsthat is so cool
