200 Chinese Workers Erect a 30 Storey Prefabricated Hotel in Just 15 Days (VIDEO)
If we hadn’t seen a video of the T30 Hotel going up in China, we might not have believed that anyone, anywhere could erect a prefabricated 30 storey tower in just over 2 weeks. But according to our friends over at World Architecture News , it’s true that Broad Sustainable Building – a subsidiary of the BroadGroup construction company – has broken their previous record of constructing a 15 storey building in one week with their latest project in Hunan Province. Not only did BSB get the T30 Hotel up in 15 days or 360 hours (with the help of 200 super speedy construction workers), but the company claims that their 17,000 square meter tower is 5 times more energy efficient than the competition and generates a fraction of the waste. It is also said to have the capacity to withstand an earthquake that measures up to 9 on the Richter Magnitude Scale ! Take a look at the incredible time-lapse video of the hotel’s construction after the jump. Read the rest of 200 Chinese Workers Erect a 30 Storey Prefabricated Hotel in Just 15 Days (VIDEO) Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “energy efficiency” , “sustainable architecture” , air purification , Broad Sustainable Building , BroadGroup , BSB , china , eco design , green design , heat recovery , Hunan Province , Pollution , prefab construction , reduced construction waste , solar shading , sustainable design , T30 Hotel Read the original post: 200 Chinese Workers Erect a 30 Storey Prefabricated Hotel in Just 15 Days (VIDEO)
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200 Chinese Workers Erect a 30 Storey Prefabricated Hotel in Just 15 Days (VIDEO)