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Stunning Time Lapse Video Of China Completing 15 Story Hotel In 6 Days
Repeat after us - there is no Chinese bubble </sarc>.
Although none is needed, here is some commentary
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.
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.
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as opposed to anti-chinese which i am. i'm one of those odd ducks that shops by label. if it's chinese i put it down.
Hey, didn't the Chinese invent the Laserjet, the PC, the Mac, and a bunch TV?
Or was that those Punjabis, who keep claiming they did it?
I get so easily confused, but then, I am an American.
Who understands arithmetic, math, forensic econ and some other stuff, which is why I wonder about some of the consumertards posting here recently (Ya know, those PalinHeads and Beckerheads)
In related news, Richard Trumka just shit in his pants.
Apparently they work on salary and not by the hour!
New Olympic Sport?
very very funny.... regardless, it's the Chinese version of "rebuild that house" on Cable TV and the reality is that it's pretty impressive to be able to pull this thing off, regardless of details, and the people obviously had a blast putting it up that quickly.
They built it for Obama's state visit, Shanghai ran out of hotel space for his entourage...
China can work on 3 shifts, literally 24 hours a day.
The United Stated? Unions.
damn straight
Looks like the Girder & Panel Building Set I got for Christmas in 1959.
Central planning is inefficient... lol
Wait til the bubble bursts.
Short yuppies....long chuppies
1) Obviously NOT union labor.
2) Instant GDP frontload, just add new empty buildings and cities.
exactly.. they totally worked themselves outta a job...
So, the chinese are to be congratulated because they have mastered premature ejaculation?
If I were the Chinese, I would focus more on feeding people- they are about to take the step of price controls on food. How many times has that failed? Every time.
Quality control has many benefits. Environmental pollution controls are pretty important- that whole air, food, water thingy.
Videos of industrial semen- not what I would want to be known for.
Icanhasconcreetcurn28ours... or maybe not
http://izismile.com/2009/06/29/apartment_building_fell_down_in_china_12_pics.html
Hey at least the concrete is well made, no cracks ... Lol'
Australians have a keen nose for skate parks!
You can look it up! Go ahead, I'll wait...
Waiting...
Waiting...
Waiting...
See!!!! I told you!!!!!!
Their '360' moves of course go the other way. It's a rule.
that was a cool skateboard park. damn fine. looked like it had various skill levels. ride your BMX bike in it, i wonder? bet skateboarding doesn't pick up in china any time soon. chinese seem to just want to sight see in groups and wave little same color flags to each other and talk on cell phones and honk their car horns, a lot. can't chew gum and skateboard all at the same time. hey, did you hear me when i honked at you? non stop honking in beijing anyway.
And it will just sit there empty. Just another toxic building that will be torn down in 5 years so they can do it all over again. Sucks to have 1.4 billion people to employ and feed. Imagine what the impact on the global economy will be when thier bubble gets popped? Hope everyone is prepared because it will be ugly.
Actually, they "assembled" it in 6 days - most likely the pre-fab components took months to design, build, and transport to site. It didn't hurt having a dozen cranes at the project and about 3000 slaves on site. Why no mention about how long the foundation took to lay down? Typically the below-grade part of a building takes the longest to construct, above ground it goes up quite fast. Perhaps this hotel has no foundation.
This is nothing more than a communist publicity stunt.
The chineese didn't invent pre-fab buildings, nothing new here.
Exactly... just think of the fire coating , plumping , electrical . drywall , painting, cabinets, carpets . This is just an empty shell frame waiting on a customer. But hey these ZH socialist kiss asses like anything commie.
did it come pre-wired with explosives for the eventual false flag event?
I'm not sure. I did notice in the brochure that the central vacuum units came with a free cervical attachment.
"Hey Mr. Won. I need a building for my new company, by next week."
This was not only a demonstration of excellent construction (building craft), but also excellent supply chain, design, and overall project management. I wonder if the design has good seismic abilities.
The Japanese have a design for a concrete skyscraper that is built up from a central core column, concrete is prefab not in-situ, and the structure installed without ANY bolting of the steel. All JIT construction.
Once upon a time Americans boasted putting up a building in only a month. And the English used to mutter about "poor quality" and "rush jobs" that were doomed. :) Times do change.
Chinaman + Bathtub + Beans = Chinese Bubble!
C'mon...we can do the same thing in the same amount of time if the bureaucrats and unions got out of the way.
Houses built in 2 days and buildings built in 6 days is not unheard of.
http://www.modularhomesnetwork.com/
is it infested with bed bugs yet?
It is no accident that it is a Red building. Nice stunt.
Bureaucrats, unions, commies, Chinese bubble, no slave here bud, chi.coms, etc.
Trying to compare a simple profitable commercial building with the always-loses-money-subsidized-with-government-rentals Empire State Building....
Anybody sober today ???
BTW: yeah, the guy writing about pollution. Somebody is sober.
Yea, theyre good but do they have Corexit ?
Nothing wrong with the standards; would probably be on par or better than anything built in NA. The speed comes from using CoreSlab - concrete panels which are all premade, precurred and drilled for lights/elec off site. When we build in North America, each floor is framed up, poured, curred for 10 days, forms removed and up to the next floor. The other trades work in the floors below.
The only thing that would be unnacceptable in North America is having the workers below the CoreSlab that is being installed. If something happened, then a couple thousand pound hunk of concrete would drop through a few floors and kill the workers.
Otherwise it is a good building. You really need a centrally planned area to do this. If a General Contractor was awarded a building they would need months of lead time to build this way. Super detailed drawings because it has to fit perfectly. Months of creating all the steel beams, months creating all of the Concrete floor pieces, etc. Not many General Contractors could front the cost of a whole building without being paid. The floor by floor approach with progress billing monthly is a little easier on the cash flow.
I concur with your statements. The key is the prior planning and production, this building was built in factories with much detailed planning. Erection was six days, but I would guess planning at two to three years. How many cranes going at one time...I have not seen that many on any site, ever. This is a doeable project, I would expect they could cut the time to five days. Could easily be done here in the US, if there was a need to do so.
This makes Extreme Home Makeover look like an Erector Set.
As an individual in the Construction Industry for over 30+ yrs, I can see why the unit was erected so quickly.
The workers, wore no saftey harnesses, belts, etc.
The building codes here, and saftey mandates would have cost them several more days, if not weeks.
But, then China has not been one to worry about a dead Chinese worker here or there, ever.
I would put an American building toe to toe with that one, and I know which one I would rather be in if a major storm, or disaster happened.
I saw no concrete, or rebar columns.( may have been some, just too fast for me to see).
It was a very good and fast way to slap up a modern building.
And, I can easily see the cost savings............much of it saftey, v.s. speed.
Yeah right, no concrete or rebar columns in them Chinese buildings. How much longer can America carry on with such mind boggling stupidity and arrogance?
get yer ass back to the SEIU, ye prole
America was an emerging economy while Britain was declining, China is an emerging economy now America is declining. It's really quite simple.
Those lads that built the empire state building were wearing harnesses?
The big question is, will the Chinese make a better or worse job of it than the Americans did?
What about the european-style castle, 18th century in the lower left part at about 2:00 mins? Doesn't look like inherent to China.
china
builds some nice walls too
long chop styx
I assume they are not union, lol
I guess most of you guys have never seen tilt-up construction. Most large concrete buildings in South FL are built that way.
http://www.tiltup.com/
I wonder how long it would've taken the Chinese to build Cowboys Stadium in Arlington? Like a lot buildings in China, it's going to waste too.............
I wonder if they used any Chinese drywall?
We should have hired the Chinese to rebuild Ground Zero. At least they might finish it before the century anniversary of 9/11.
American builders are f*cked... yes, sad but true..
I bet it will handle false flag attacks better than WTC7
The real secret is that they kept the managers away and let the people who knew what they were doing run the project from end to end. Probably impossible in the U.S.
The Chinese and anyone else thinking it's cool to build anything in the shortest possible time are not thinking at all.
The world has 6.7 billion people. There are only 2.6 billion jobs to fill.
Any project should take 3 times longer to put to work all the 6.7 billion.
There is too little work already to do in the world for the number of people in it.
Look at any town, like Detroit. To put and keep all those people to work at productive activity, to keep them in McRibs, french fries, and $1.00 hot fundaes, every new job should be mandated to take three time longer than it optimally takes to complete it.
Government understood this 100 years ago and have managed to stretch out possible completed tasks to "never" completed. Unions understand this as well. Lord Blankfein proved he understood it as well, getting Hank Paulson to give him many billions for failing, and saving his company from following Lehman into the shitter.
It is those who wish to run the world efficiently who do not possess the vision thing--they who are committing egregious errors.
Stretching out work like that makes it intolerable. I'd much rather get paid 3 times as much and only work 1/3 of the time, or something like that. Problem is, people would have enough free time to figure out that they don't need a ruling class.
FUNNY!
QE Explained by animation... "the Bernank"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k&feature=player_embedded
Ummm, where's the HVAC, plumbing, electrical, fire detection, telecommunications, interior walls etc? A shell in six days is no feat.
Day seven......
http://izismile.com/2009/06/29/apartment_building_fell_down_in_china_12_...
P.S. I've been watching the Chinese build like this since 1985. It wasn't the greatest thing if you had a hotel room in Shanghai and wanted to sleep. In th heavy downtown build-out, you'd have to close the blinds and put cotton in your ears because they'd be working through the AM hours.
We'd come back after late drinks and say, "My God, they're still working". Yep.
Do a photo comparison of Shanghai in 1985 to 2010. It's unreal.
This is nothing. The Fed can print enough $100 bills to fill this building in 10 minutes.
LOL
Obviously not built by american union members.
ah unions. proving that gulags do have a moral and economic benefit to society
Amazing! Hotel/Office construction is now a factory process.
Potemkin hotel?
Just an observation...in chicago, at the waterview tower in 2008 there was a crane sitting next to an unfinished parking garage for 10 months....(lack of financing and sales curbed the project)....there was so little demand for building construction that the crane did not even have utility at another site, anywhere!!. (cranes are rented not left at sites)...From looking at this video they have about 6 cranes. Either they have run out of places for them to be used or they are the most efficient builders ever. Impressive video.
"How do you diffuse a bubble?"
and the day 7 ....?
les amis de Zerohedge,
je vais être simple because vous allez devoir traduire, désolé.
Le majeur problème que j'observe c'est que chaque chinois moyen consacre 15% de son revenu de 200$ à financer x% ? du revenu d'un américain de
3000$. Absurde. Stop arrétez-vous 5 secondes. Imaginez le contraire. Du jour au lendemain les chinois deviennent de véritables clients pour le savoir faire américain.
Si je pouvais, je mettrai cette politique en place ce soir.
putain.
And the world wonders, why the Chinese economy is booming! They're getting shit done!
It takes an average of two to three years to put up a new building in my city. There a YMCA building scheduled to be reopened in 2013, construction work started Spring of 2009.
* Absolutely Amazing! To see a building put up from scratch in the span of 6 days. Amazing what we can do when we put away our fighting and get things done. Who would have guessed it takes 6 days for a high rise to be built. Makes me want to go out and own an construction company. Charge corporate business and property management companies an Arm-and-Leg for getting the job done faster than the competition. I'd be rich and my work portfolio would be span 1000's of projects before 2011 was up. lol
Try that with union labor.
Like the "big dig" in Boston?
Becoming an Entrepreneur is looked down upon.
This group enjoys the padding of budgets.
http://www.seiu.org/splash/
Remember, the general awareness is escalating.
The woman in the red dress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXQozTxQSiE
J6P is being fed the truth. How they will interpret is a time capsule discovered.
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A tale of two nations....
After the collapse of the Bubble Economy in Japan, when the country was on its 50th or so Emergency Supplemental Budget, there was a work project on the street in front of my house doing something with sewers and power lines. The work took two years. Every morning the back hoe driver would arrive, and after group exercise he'd climb aboard his (Japanese-made) vehicle and begin to dig the dirt out from under the street to allow the workers to work. About 4pm every single day the driver would again climb aboard his machine and proceed to put all the dirt back into the hole. Other workers would tamp down the dirt then place steel plates over the dirt so that the street could again accomodate two lanes of traffic.
Next morning the process would be carried out again, digging out the same dirt, putting it back at the end of the day. They did this at least a hundred fifty times during the project's life. Even Cool Hand Luke would have gotten his mind right.
About fifty meters away from this site there was a small building tucked between some old two story residences. The building was a storage facility. Often a Dyna 200 or similar sized truck would arrive outside, and a few workers would begin unloading bags of cement and storing them in the tiny warehouse. It would take a half hour or so to unload the truck. At other times another Dyna 200 would pull up, empty, and its passengers would open the pull-down door on the mini-warehouse and begin to load the bags of cement on to the flat bed. Once full, they'd drive off somewhere, maybe to a construction site, or maybe just to another storage facility. There were occasions I saw two trucks pull up at the same time, one filled with bags of cement, the other empty. The empty truck would wait behind the first truck. Its crew would drink "The Coffee" or "Jo", those little hot and sugary cans dispensed from a vending machine, put their feet, clad in those two-toed construction and laborer boots the Japanese tend to wear, up on the dashboard, and read the latest Manga or a sports newspaper, munching on a cheese mushi cake or a dorayaki. Once the first crew finished unloading and storing all their cement, the crew of the empty truck would spring into action, loading the same bags on to their truck, then heading off to who knows where. The two crews barely spoke with each other, and of course did not even consider just moving the bags directly from one truck to the other, or just handing directions to the already loaded truck and sending it off to wherever the second truck was supposed to head.
Sometimes the purpose of work is work itself, especially during a recession. China might one day adopt the same style of labor, when work itself becomes more important than GDP, perhaps taking down all the buildings it constructed but never really needed.
To each his own, and in his own time.
This is why I love ZH. You couldn't make this shit up. Every place is screwed up, just in different ways.
Chindit. Have you read Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner? I think you will get a chuckle or two;)
"Every place is screwed up, just in different ways"
Very true. Usually one needs to step outside, or be an outsider, to appreciate it.
Many years ago I lived in Saudi Arabia. Flying over the country from Jeddah to Riyadh or Dhahran one would see these giant green circles in the desert. The Saudi were growing food. I found out that it cost five to tens time more money to produce a desert tomato than to ship one in from Lebanon. Being young and blinded to my own faults, I once raised this "foolishness" with a Saudi businessman.
His response: You Americans pay farmers NOT to grow stuff, and you subsidize tobacco farmers even though tobacco kills 500K Americans a year.
I was properly rebuked.
Is that Jimmy Doolittle's Raiders I see coming in low with the sun at their back?
6 days? whoopdedoo, theres like 2 billion of them over there, shoulda done it in 3 lol. looks like an Ikea kit, 1 asian with 1 allen key. Done
nice view of the pollution and power lines.
Who would want to stay there?
yep a country of loyal worker drones / slaves, very good at building hotels to nowhere. but at least they're doing something unlike americans who sit around watching dwts while waiting for obama money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-Etb0k0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfGLB8LO1aM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI&feature=related
yep ill stay with the mindless worker drones over that lot ...
We're not enemies, we're frenemies... :-)
USA Verses China in Currency Rap!
Did they build it in Ordos?
Prefab will be an interesting site in 5 years... Warping, bending, etc... China is looking so Japan 1989 but in that case Japan actually built good stuff -- more and more Chinese stuff is shoddy... But then again drug dealers have puppeteered that nation for 200 years -- and now they've turned it into a skittles churning vending machine -- and now with pre fab erector set buildings? Yeeee-ikes that is rinky tinky... This looks more like the crap that would be foisted on a gullible world under the globalist banner of "sustainability." Forces of nature will pancake that thing within a decade... Just an immeasurably metaphorical piece...
Does it come with bed bugs?
...after being subjected to their "quality" craftmanship that i can only compare to emergency-one-use-if-your-lucky-crap, i can make my educated guess that that building is sub-par at best...i can stack some toothpicks in record time. this video only proves to me their foundation of "ready-to-lead-the-world" is complete propaganda posturing lead by the same banks destroying the great 'ol U.S. of A. the chinese immigrants i speak to sure hold china in a different light than their homeland portrays...i've noticed they are in no hurry to go back either...you may fool billions china, but this not little 'ol me.
This is not stunning. Any body with prefabricated components can create such cookie cutter objects in no time.
China is fooling all of you. They are truly an emperror with no clothes.
Which parts of China have you worked in?
chingchong province
Thought so. Good place for gaining informed opinions. I can see how you got your handle.
1920's Documentary. Progressives never seem to learn the hands of time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taq0X0baOak
Fuck Glen Beck
Oh yeah, that's nothing...you should see how fast the USG can build a FEMA camp...(the ones they will not tell you about....)
http://today24news.com/entertainment/fema-camps-on-trutv’s-conspiracy-...
Before we get too excited about China's productivity. I wonder if they have the same building code standards that we have here in the states? It would seem on it's face that if that weren't the case then we aren't comparing apples to apples.
No. They don't have the same level of "compliance" to a multitude of "standards" ... they don't have the same number of bureaucratic inspections and certifications every day ... they don't have the same level of union imposed work practices ... they don't have the same level of demarcation disputes (one guy can work a hammer and a saw) ... they don't have the same need to have 5 guys leaning on one shovel before they all go home at 3pm .............
Architecturally, a new low. So banal, and so lacking in craft.
Still, the Chinese will KICK OUR asses in anything now
Well, I have been in China in 1998 and stayed in hotel in central part of Shanghai. I thought I selected a bad location because they started messing up with the main access road to the hotel (digging, excavating , dewatering, shoring, all the kind of civil works). I asked reception what was going on and they said the old storm water pipes will be replaced. I did not see the pipes yet. I decided to leave this place for 1 week to Beijing. When I came back the whole area looked like no dip excavation took place there . The area was refreshed with new trees, grass and flowers. It took them only around a week to complete that massive project. Oh, by the way. At the beginning of the project (when I was still there) there was a lot of workers on the site( maybe 500 or even 800). I thought how it was possible so many people could do the job and not disturb each other. They were like ants on that site. Still remember. To do mobilisation and dewatering only it could take up to 1 month that time in Dubai (where I was a resident). Unbelievable but true.
To construct 15 storey building in Dubai or Abu Dhabi it used to take minimum 1 year .
Well, in Sadyat and Das Island area in Abu Dhabi Emirate (not far from Formula1 race track) the low rise hotels are built . They are using same method (no stationary cranes but wheeled telescopic cranes). But it takes much , much longer to complete construction.
agree wholeheartedly. The Fall of the US is not due to unions, Inasane comment.
." Unions despite all of their warts gave us 40 hour work weeks and allowed many people to join the middle class and to live the (dare I say it) American dream , whatever that is. The problem is that international capital and its owners (ARE THEY AMERICANS?) want the slaves to work at the rates that they choose for them. Not only do they have the power of the purse, they also want the power over your mind , body and spirit. Goes with the territory."
And whats more they want you to eat GM shit which GM's your cells in one feed... George Soros and Monsanto anyone? huge death rate in ratties fed GM ....
They are now doing tricks with our money we give them so much.
For all the whingeing and put downs of chinese standards and construction/production what are you wearing Mate? Look at their GDP per capita its exponential growth and be very concerned. Just because you wont work for Nike in a sweat shop with your kiddy in pyjamas working too...
This site is reading like a Sour Grapes fest of those the world is passing by.
... and the reason it is passing them by is because that is what the MSM has told them to think. They have no knowledge, only memory of slogans.
to sursup... China and drugs puppeteered? which country has the biggest drug activilties world wide???
A good slogan for this activity would be "Just add water".
Oh, and another point (probably already covered directly or indirectlty in a previous post) - what is the occupancy rate?
I bet we could put up some super walmarts in less than six days in the good ol' USA.
We're lost. Culture of profits, and not even that: a culture of the illusion of success.
As long as there's a line of credit, there's a way!
Wouldn't doubt that all the off topic bickering is representative of each countries construction staff : while the chinese get on and do the job,stay on topic, where as most westerners, as is representative in the reply section here, are too busy argueing about non relevant, off the topic matters, f'all gets done.
I guess there is no more disputing how the Prymids were built. Non stop human toil. Chineese "freedom" and advancement the wave of the future. I love the part where the bubble popped up and said there were no injurys. This is kind of like Clinton trying define what sex is.
On the seventh day they blew it up!!!
I work with Chinese software engineers almost every day. They are extremely fast. I'm not shitting you, they work like they have a 110 volt electric cord up their ass. Not so good at being creative but that's another story.
You've got to realize even with this video time lapsed what's going on. These guys are working extremely fast, easily more than twice as fast as anything in the West. It kind of takes your breath away.
The big problem in China is the lack of enough people with decades of experience. Companies have a tough time trying to fill enough slots with experienced personnel. They are forced to high a lot of young inexperienced college grads. The young generally don't have an older experienced person to learn from so their learning curve is longer. Most technical companies spring up near a college. You will find dozens of companies all making or doing the same thing. It is amazing how many companies make the exact same product. Their will be a lot of consolidation as the weak are absorbed by the strong. It will be 20 years before there is enough experienced people to fill all the available slots. The future will belong to the millions of technical people who are now learning their craft.
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Speaking about the original vid for a mo...
America used to build Liberty Ships in under a week (three days at one time if I recall correctly) due to a "Can do" wartime mentality. True, they had a shelflife that was comparable with this 15 story garden shed and attrition was a bit poor after launch..
I was impressed by the joined together pre-fabbing and assembly however much we want to bitch about it.
Expect this construction style to be exported BIGTIME to the ROW in decades to come.
With their own assemblers - of course.
(Assuming the PRC econ doesn't implode etc.)
The initial Liberty ships that were welded together also catastrophically failed due to the poor understanding of metallurgy and the pitfalls of welding.
We do this all the time in the U.S. - it's called precast concrete.
I work for one of the country's leading precasters and we do this all the time. The erection of the building/parking deck/stadium/etc., is one the shorter stages of construction. Notice is the commentary it says all of the pieces were pre-fabricated and trucked to the site - this process likely tooks months and is the beauty behind this approach to construction; you can produce (off site) product at a rate and schedule that is most efficient to the fabricator and then erect the structure in record time with minimal costs and site impact. Ain't nuthing new under the sun - we do it all the time here in the goold old U.S of A!!!!
Build a 5-star hotel in that time,that would be impressive.
Kind of reminds me of this, from 1943:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/films/workers_week.htm
(Workers building a Wellington bomber - a type of British WWII twin-engined long-range bomber aircraft - in 24 hours. Pretty cool, even though mainly done for propaganda value of course.)
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China is able to desroy their buildings in less time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/15/shanghai-fire-kills-8-in-_n_783...