Chinese manufacturing company Broad Group has constructed a 10-story apartment building in just over a day.
Called the Living Building, the structure is located in the company’s headquarters location of Changsha, China. A timelapse released by Broad Group shows the apartment block being erected in just 28 hours and 45 minutes with the help of three cranes and a large team of workers.
Video via Broad Group on YouTube.
Broad Group specializes in manufacturing a range of air conditioning, heating, and prefabricated structural units. As stated in the project’s publicity video, the company has been developing factory-made steel buildings since 2009. Additionally, Broad Group claims that this is the world’s shortest construction period.
The Living Building was constructed using modular units that were made off-site in a factory. It was designed to be easy to transport and install. The structure is made of pure stainless steel, with each module sized at forty feet long, eight feet wide, and ten feet high. On-site, the components are bolted together and then connected to the factory-fitted electric and water systems.
The apartment building used Broad Group’s stainless steel B-Core slabs as structural elements, which the company claims are 10 times lighter and 100 times stronger than conventional alternatives. They are also supposedly resistant to mega earthquakes and typhoons. The slabs are formed by two stainless steel plates separated by hundreds of stainless steel tubes.
The company claims that the Living Building “is endowed with the world’s highest quality in construction,” with the lowest cost, including energy consumption and construction costs. Broad Group also believes the construction method could be used to create buildings of up to 200 stories, along with public buildings.
In 2012, the company unveiled plans to build the tallest building in the world in Changsha, which would have been made using prefabrication techniques. Named Sky City, it was planned to be completed in just nine months. The project was never realized due to safety concerns and lack of government approval. Sky City’s vacant foundations have since been repurposed by local villages as a fish farm.
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wow. i hope this is real. low rise communities of these prefab modules could work very well.
Yet another reason whay the communist threat must be eradicated.
What you can accomplish with slave labor amiright!
The way the bay windows swing into position is pretty cool! Lots of interlocking transformer moves, not just independent modules.
Paper architecture.
I'm impressed.
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