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The Chinese Can Build 15-Story Hotel in Six days! Why Can’t We?

John P.

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A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha completed a 15-story hotel in just six days! Holy crap! When you take a look at the amazing pace, organization and precision of the work it makes you think that the US absolutely SUCKS at construction!

And by the way, the Chinese aren’t putting up crappy buildings that you wouldn’t want to be caught dead in! Just take a look at the amazing buildings Trey Ratcliff captured on his recent trip to China over on StuckInCustoms.com.

Anyway, here is the description from Yahoo News on this new building:

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. Below is a time-lapse video that shows the hotel being built from the ground up in less than a week:

Comments

  1. Yes, if the people here in China want to be efficient, wow, they can do it no problems. I have been in China for the past 8 years, and have seen many buildings erected in a very short time. What do you expect when labour is extremely easy to find, and ready to work? I think many people in North America just aren’t efficient, and don’t care to be. There are always exceptions to the rule, but those mainly reflect people that have an interest in whatever it is that is being built. If you are just a employee in a company, most can give a rats bum.

    Here in China, if you slack a bit, there are 100s more who can fill in your position in a heartbeat.

  2. This is amazing, my friend just came back from China on business and was amazed by their infrastructure. The amazing ability to build there is absolutely fantastic.

  3. This is really impresive what China is doing this days. But the recents comments here tell the true. Is dangerous, because some structures need time to acomodated itself.

  4. Actually, I was going to say because of government bureaucracy! I watched a documentary on how the “Extreme Makover” people have to pay shit tons of money to local government to bypass the standard permitting and inspection procedures to build a house in 7 days. And in many cases they have to hire an onsite 24/7 inspector to “inspect as they go.”