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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- cupcake45over 12 yearswooooooow! i cant belive they made such a beautiful hotel in only 360 hours i cant belive that!
- Suhaover 12 yearsWow they must be really hard workers!
- Suhaover 12 yearsWow they must be really hard workers!
- jd8527over 12 yearsCOOL AND ALL THE XTRA STUF ON IT LOL WOW
voldermort1over 12 yearsWow that is really fast! i can't even build a one story shack in 360 hours- jeromeover 12 yearsreal cool
swirlylollypopsover 12 yearsawesome!- lingoover 12 years200 super SKINNY cotruction workers
- Antonover 12 yearsthat was aaaawsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
ghostly17over 12 yearsthose people must be working rrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyy hard. Just imagine not sleeping and working for 360 hours. Impossible, right?
