Did you do anything new to ring in 2012? Well, the Chinese sustainable building company Broad Group did something amazing. It put together a 30-storey hotel prototype in 360 hours flat! That's 15 days, for those who can't convert quickly. The building is energy-efficient and quite a safe structure that can withstand earthquakes up to a magnitude of 9. Once the foundation was laid, the building assembly completed before New Year's Eve of 2012. The fast construction was carried out with the help of pre-fabricated technology, which involved constructing the skeletal structure in factories and transporting them to the construction site for assembly. Check out the full video for yourself.
Builders in China completed a 170,000 square foot, 30-story
prefabricated hotel in just 15 days, ending on New Year’s Eve – and
posted a time-lapse video (above) to show off their impressive feat, the Huffington Post reports.
Construction workers bolted together the new hotel, in Dongting Lake
in Hunan province, from pre-made modules put together in a factory and
then placed them on steel structures at the construction site, according
to the International Business Times. It can reportedly withstand an 9.0-magnitude earthquake.
“It completely changes the way buildings are constructed and, I
believe, is about to change the entire industry,” architect Lloyd Alter
wrote on the blog Treehugger.
The Chinese company behind the speedy process, Broad Sustainable
Building Corporation, has some former success with building quickly.
Once the world’s largest producer of air conditioning equipment, it
previously built the 15-story Ark Hotel in Changsha, China, in just six
days.
The implications of the latest project seemingly go beyond simply
adding to the Dongting skyline in a speedy fashion. “Construction is
just about the only industry that has not been exported,” Alter
explained. “But now the Broad Sustainable Building Corporation has
designed a system that will let them build anywhere, to construction
tolerances of +/- 0.2 mm.”
Which likely means American hotels will soon be added to the growing list of things that come with a “made in China” stamp.
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