Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days

[DesiGuy]

As the United States and China battle over the finer points of currency manipulation at the G-20 summit, American negotiators may want to take note of this startling testimonial to the productivity of Chinese workers: A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha has completed a 15-story hotel in just six days. If nothing else, this remarkable achievement will stoke further complaints from American economic pundits that China's economy is far more accomplished than ours in tending to such basics as construction.

Meanwhile, it's easy to imagine the disorientation of Changsha residents who'd gone away, or who just hadn't recently ventured into the downtown neighborhood of the new Ark Hotel: "Honey, I don't remember a hotel there, do you?"

The work crew erected the hotel -- a soundproofed, thermal-insulated structure reportedly built to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake -- with all prefabricated materials. In other words, a crew of off-site factory workers built the sections, and their on-site counterparts arranged them on the foundation for the Ark project.


Despite the frenetic pace of construction, no workers were injured -- and thanks to the prefab nature of the process, the builders wasted very few construction materials.

Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days | The Upshot Yahoo! News

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

I have this experience in Hong Kong all the time.

I visit an area and see a construction site for a building which has just started, with the bamboo scaffolding and everything. Then after a month or so, I come back to the same area, and the building is finished!

Six days is MUCH faster than usual though. Perhaps engineering and construction is just a natural advantage that most Chinese cities have.

 

[1000VA]

 

[cross1993]

http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMjIzMTEwNzU2/v.swf

 

[somebozo]

That might be the Guinness World Records holder as fastest constructed hotel!

 

[scuthan]

Hope these workers can take a rest at the seventh day.

The company built this hotel is Yuanda(Broad). They had an tech demo pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, which was built within one day.

it is environment-friendly and safe (endure earthquake with intensity IX)

 

[ao333]

As the United States and China battle over the finer points of currency manipulation at the G-20 summit, American negotiators may want to take note of this startling testimonial to the productivity of Chinese workers: A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha has completed a 15-story hotel in just six days. If nothing else, this remarkable achievement will stoke further complaints from American economic pundits that China's economy is far more accomplished than ours in tending to such basics as construction.

Meanwhile, it's easy to imagine the disorientation of Changsha residents who'd gone away, or who just hadn't recently ventured into the downtown neighborhood of the new Ark Hotel: "Honey, I don't remember a hotel there, do you?"

The work crew erected the hotel -- a soundproofed, thermal-insulated structure reportedly built to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake -- with all prefabricated materials. In other words, a crew of off-site factory workers built the sections, and their on-site counterparts arranged them on the foundation for the Ark project.


Despite the frenetic pace of construction, no workers were injured -- and thanks to the prefab nature of the process, the builders wasted very few construction materials.

Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days | The Upshot Yahoo! News

I think ppl want to thank you, but it'll have to wait till that banned status reverts.