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Caught On Tape: China Builds A Bridge In Just 43 Hours
When you have a billion people willing to work instead of expecting free "stuff", anything's possible... Earlier this year, a Chinese construction company had erected a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days. This time the Chinese have built an overpass in mere 43 hours!
Workers took apart the old structure of Beijing's Sanyuan Bridge in a few hours. Then they brought an entire piece of concrete to bridge the gap and paved it over, reports Citylab.com.
To build the bridge, over 1300 tonnes of new surfacing material was used which save months of commotion and traffic woes. For the first time in Chinese workers tried out a new 'integrated replacement method.'
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and watch it collapse within 43 weeks
Slavery,, Gets Shit Done.
"willing to work instead of expecting free "stuff", anything's possible..." Is there anything you won't paste a "lazy poor" lable on Mr. Durden?. So, when do you want us to kill these useless eaters, Tyler? Or are we still in the Fascist foreplay stage?
That would take 12 to 18 months in NZ. that is, to do the work. before that it would take 3 to 5 years to pass the red tape resource management hearings. and would have cost overruns.
and then some asshole town planner would ensure spaghetti roadmarking reduced its efficacy by 20-50%
When you have a billion people willing to work instead of expecting free "stuff"
Enough of this please. There are tens of millions of people who would love to have some kind of work, and no jobs for them. It's a bit over the top to keep pounding the table on this lazy American propaganda day after day.
No it's not. Nobody does anthing to stop it so it IS in order.
When they pound the Zios into the ground, end the Fed and storm the White House, THAT'S when saying this would be "over the top". Until then, it's what the people deserve.
Freedom isn't free. Everyone's waiting for someone to liberate them, not knowing - or wanting to face the hard truth - that the liberator is YOU.
When enough patriots bite the bullet, become Minutemen and organise a million man march on DC and NY, excercising their 2nd Ammendment Rights - you MIGHT get a chance to see change.
Until then, forget it.
Yep , ZH editors are a strange kind of elitism.
No article on 95 million people out of worforce wanting to work
Wait to see how long the overpass (as well as any other newly-constructed Chinese structures) lasts before rendering admiration. A friend who traveled recently to China noted that the concrete and materials they use are often very cheap, the result of widespread graft. That wonderous glass-bottom bridge they unveiled a month or so ago cracked within the first two weeks:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/07/chinas-new...
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The Mercan Century for the exceptionally deluded.
China to bridge contractor: "Build that bridge in 43 hours and we will guarantee your company 50% net profit"
Bridge contractor to desperate labourers: "Build that bridge in 43 hours and we will give you some food, but not until then."
Capitalism at its best. Only the ruthless profit.
Won't be any film of it coming apart in 6 months, tying up traffic and killing a few as it breaks, like everhthing else made in china.
China is already exporting bridges at a fraction of US cost. The US has very few if any facilities to build big steel structures. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/global/26bridge.html
We've seen China pouring more concrete than the us did in a century.
However they will find out empty cities roads and bridges have to be well built so they can be maintained properly.
They are not quality.
They will find out the maintenance costs on all that infrastructure is not cheap, already reports are coming out of failures and lack of funds to maintain.
Oops. I thought this was about the new San Francisco Bay Bridge.
Built in 43 hours, collapsed in 5 seconds.
not to take away from an accomplishment, things like concrete can take up to a month to get to strength. familiar with the phrase watching paint dry? it takes as long as it takes. additives can speed things up, but the point is, certain physical processes take a given amount of time, and pushing through comes at a price. the bridge is done, but what state will it be in in 10 years? and will it just prematurely deteriorate, or come crashing down without warning?
Back in 2007 I was a builder for a national home builder here in AZ...the concrete guys would pour one day, early the next morning they would comeback and pull the forms, and usually that same day the framers would be there throwing up the shell...
Yep!! Seen that! You oughta see what the Amish can do in a day!!!
The Old Man
not to take away from an accomplishment, things like concrete can take up to a month to get to strength.
Pay attention. The bridge is prefabricated and sitting off to the left. The existing bridge is picked up piece by piece. The replacement bridge is then "rolled" into place and paved. Presumably it took a while to construct that bridge on those rollers ... which happened before the 48 hour sequence. Notice traffic blow the bridge is seriously interrupted.
43 hours, LOL. Back in 2010 I worked as a welder for a local construction company, and between safety meetings every 60 minutes, when they were not drug testing us, it took us two months to just remove a short two lane bridge at a mine here in AZ. Add to that the fact that the bridge happened to traverse a dry wash, so every day we actually had to put fire blankets over rocks and sand...all this at a mine where they had red zones that you could not even walk near unless you had on numerous personal safety devices because they were spewing toxic crap like SO2 and NO2...too funny.... One of the many reasons I quit welding. Standing out in the desert in the summer, covered in leather, wearing a black hood, is not nearly as much fun as it sounds like...
I'm so glad you think 'having a billion people basically working for free' is such a good thing.
Next article will be crying about slave labor.
Please think before spewing such shit.
This is EXACTLY what I was thinking! Thank you for posting it
I wonder how it will hold up under heavy traffic or even the slightest earthquake or flood.