A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world’s fastest builder after erecting a 57-storey skyscraper in 19 working days in central China.
Broad Sustainable Building, a prefab construction firm, put up the rectangular, glass and steel Mini Sky City in the Hunan provincial capital of Changsha, assembling three floors a day using a modular method [...].
The company now has ambitions to assemble the world’s tallest skyscraper, at 220 floors, in only three months.
— The Guardian
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Chinese prefab company did NOT build a 57-story skyscraper in 19 days...
Nice clickbait title. In fact, the first twenty floors were built LAST YEAR, and the remaining 37 floors were built in the 19 day timeframe between January 30th and February 17th, 2015. The building's prefabricated elements took four and a half months to build offsite, so therefore this entire process or physical production took about a calendar year. Maybe that's still impressive, but whatever.
"The company now has ambitions to assemble the world’s tallest skyscraper, at 220 floors [838m; 2,749ft], in only three months" - LOL, yeah, okay...
Just what we need, ways to produce more shit faster and cheaper than ever before.
Good, they should make it the new HQ of the Communist Party.
Or CCTV
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