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Old Posted Nov 20, 2012, 10:35 AM
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Is this really going ahead though?
Last I heard they hadn't got approval from the local authorities to build it.

http://www.constructionweekonline.co.../#.UKtc-LtpiPB

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Broad Sustainable Building (BSB), a subsidiary of the Broad Group based in Changsha in Hunan province, China, insists that it will deliver its 220-storey Sky City within the targeted 90 days, rather than in 210 days as rumoured by the media.

Designed by engineers that worked on the Burj Khalifa, Sky City will achieve the target by using BSB’s 95%-prefabricated modular technology at the astonishing construction pace of five storeys a day.

Juliet Jiang, senior VP of Broad Group, has said that the company’s plan to construct its 838m skyscraper by the Xiangjiang River in Changsha city “will go on as planned with the completion of five storeys a day.”

Broad, which has built a total 20 structures in China, demonstrated its rapid construction method to a wider audience in January, when the company constructed a 30-storey hotel in just 15 days.

Work on the foundations is expected to go ahead by the end of the month, while the planned three month construction period runs from the end of the year to the end of March 2013.
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China To Build Tallest Skyscraper In 90 Days

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From the foundations upwards, the whole construction will be erected within three months at a rate of five floors a day. Work will start at the end of this month and it should all be finished by the end of February.

- The building will be called Sky City and its statistics are quite remarkable. It will be 838 metres high, with 220 floors and a construction area of one million square metres. To achieve that, 200,000 tons of steel will be used. There will be space for 31,000 people inside, who will be able to move up and down with the help of 104 high speed lifts.

- Some 83% of the building will be for residential use, with room for 17,400 people. It will also contain a hotel with a capacity for 1,000. There will be schools educating up to 4,600 children and a hospital which will treat 1,400 patients. Only 3% of the building will be for office use. Any remaining space will be shops and restaurants. The building will be just a few metres taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai but will be constructed at a fraction of the cost.

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Old Posted Dec 1, 2012, 3:39 AM
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India is joining the prefab party.

http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/CHD...94400-PHO.html

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Old Posted Dec 1, 2012, 5:48 AM
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This is awesome.

Hopefully in the future there will be the ability to have varying options on the exterior (colors, textures, contours, etc).

Too bad the US doesn't try stuff like this on a grand scale!
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Old Posted Dec 19, 2012, 4:17 AM
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222 storey skyscraper

My latest info (from someone in the know over there in a related field) tells me this one is definitely a 'goer'.

Will be interesting to watch.

Completion date does not include fitout, but even so, pretty impressive, and its meant to be ecologically friendly. ie low carbon footprint.
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Not related to the tall tower they want to build in China, but there have been rumors that a company in China wants to use this technique in my hometown of Calgary. There's a site that has been built to grade, and has been sitting idle for a couple of years now, and that's where they would want to build.

Just wondering if anyone knows if this method is significantly cheaper? It's definitely faster.
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Faster = cheaper. Building faster means you drive down labor costs. Pre-fabricated sections also drives down labor costs for those sections.
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brooklyn is in on it too. forest city ratner of cleveland is building prefab apt bldgs around the new barclays center arena over and around the atlantic rail yards.
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I'm not sure if the Barclay's center towers are supposed to use the same flavor of prefab that Broad Group is using, since I thought that Barclay Center was proposed before Broad developed there technology.
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Been to China. Things MAY look nice but up-close it all crap construction. And they use substandard parts in everything and pay off the building codes people to look the other way. So they are all death traps also!!
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The future will tell if all of these code violations and corruption induced projects survive. It would be sad to have several thousand dead if one of these is to collapse. Just look at the indonesia building collapse.
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The future will tell if all of these code violations and corruption induced projects survive. It would be sad to have several thousand dead if one of these is to collapse. Just look at the indonesia building collapse.
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Been to China. Things MAY look nice but up-close it all crap construction. And they use substandard parts in everything and pay off the building codes people to look the other way. So they are all death traps also!!
What the hell are you guys talking about? Do you guys have any background to engineering? These buildings are prefabricated. It's a technology that dates way back. There are plenty of buildings in the United States that were prefabricated. This includes the former World Trade Center. It's made like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and assembled on site. If what you guys said is true than a quarter of the buildings in the United States aren't structurally sound because they are prefabricated. Don't be ignorant..........
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A prefab building collapsed in the UK in the 1970s. A gas explosion in a kitchen brought down an entire corner of a 25 storey building. They rebuilt it, it still stands!
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What the hell are you guys talking about? Do you guys have any background to engineering? These buildings are prefabricated. It's a technology that dates way back. There are plenty of buildings in the United States that were prefabricated. This includes the former World Trade Center. It's made like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and assembled on site. If what you guys said is true than a quarter of the buildings in the United States aren't structurally sound because they are prefabricated. Don't be ignorant..........
I was just simply implying that the building codes aren't as strict in some of these developing nations. Maybe I came across as saying that it will collapse but I didn't mean that, just saying and implying that lack of proper codes can lead to accidents or increase the chances of it happening down the line.

The indonesia building collapse was mentioned because I was saying how in the lust for money, often safety goes unchecked.

"Rana Plaza's architect, Massood Reza, said the building was planned for shops and offices – but not factories. Other architects stressed the risks involved in placing factories inside a building designed only for shops and offices.
Other architects stressed the risks involved in placing factories inside a building designed only for shops and offices."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...factories.html
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China builds complete 57-story skyscraper in record 19 days







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Sploid reader Xian Min Zhang sent us the latest time-lapse video of the construction of his latest building: A 57-floor 2-million-square-foot (180,000-square-meter) skyscraper fully built with energy-efficient, factory-produced Lego-like blocks. He claims that they are now building these at a record three floors per day!

The company keeps increasing their building speed and size of these buildings at an impressive rate. It is still not the 220-story skyscraper they claimed they were going to build, but it is amazing nonetheless.

This building has 19 10-meter-high atriums, 800 apartments, and office space for 4,000 people. Zhang claims that the use of modules reduced the use of concrete by 15,000 trucks, which he says almost eliminated all the release of dust in the air, an important advantage in pollution-ridden China. Talking about pollution: He claims that all of the air inside is 99.9% pure thanks to the tight construction and built-in air conditioning system. The building has quadruple-pane glass and, he says, is so energy efficient it will save 12,000 tons of CO2 emission compared to a building of the same size and use.
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