China Plans To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days
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#2Just as a point of reference, this building will be taller than both of the fallen WTC buildings stacked on top each another (sans the spire).
Re: China Plans To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days
#3Just as a point of reference, this building will be taller than both of the fallen WTC buildings stacked on top each another (sans the spire).
Yeah, the Burj is itself mind bogglingly tall, this new one is only 10m taller.
I'm wondering when we're gonna see the first true Mile High tower? We're 1/3 the way there!
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#4It seems like it would be more accurate to say "assembled" in 90 days. These things are pretty much pre-built off-site and just need to be plugged and stacked.
It's very impressive and I look forward to seeing some greater modification (away form the standard boxy look) toward more expressiveness and personality --similar to the turning torso building --which looks like it could be modular as well.
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#5Obviously, most of this is prefab...so I wonder how much time was spent building all the individual pieces before the official ground breaking?
With 220 floors and 104 elevators...that's more than 2 floors and 1 elevator a day. I imagine just the fitting/assembling in place process per floor is enough to fill up a third of a day on its own...so is this basically a huge vertical jigsaw puzzle in which the pieces have been made and just need to be moved onto site?
Re: China Plans To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days
#6Just as a point of reference, this building will be taller than both of the fallen WTC buildings stacked on top each another (sans the spire).
Yeah, the Burj is itself mind bogglingly tall, this new one is only 10m taller. I'm wondering when we're gonna see the first true Mile High tower? We're 1/3 the way there!
We're actually over 1/2 way there.
1 mile = 1609.344 metres Burj Khalifa = 828 metres
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#7I’m reminded of the classic triple constraint ‘cheap, fast, good’. They’re promising cheap and fast…
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#8I’m reminded of the classic triple constraint ‘cheap, fast, good’. They’re promising cheap and fast…
Exactly. I'd be interested in some follow up with that 30-story building they previously built. What's the final quality -- months later?
I'm skeptical, but with enough pre-planning and enough people, I think it is possible to build a quality building in this way.
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#9Looking at the profile, it is much more stout than Burj Khalifa which should make the engineering significantly less complex due to the inherent stiffness.
On the other hand, much of the building's interior spaces will have little access to daylight due to the large size of the floor plates - at 1,000,000 m^2 it is has more than three times the area of Burj Khalifa.
Re: China Plans To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days
#10Obviously, most of this is prefab...so I wonder how much time was spent building all the individual pieces before the official ground breaking? With 220 floors and 104 elevators...that's more than 2 floors and 1 elevator a day. I imagine just the fitting/assembling in place process per floor is enough to fill up a third of a day on its own...so is this basically a huge vertical jigsaw puzzle in which the pieces have…
Their wikipedia page said 7 months in total, with a 90-day on-site construction time.