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Just 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!
Obviously, 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…
Conversely, prefabricated units can be built virtually anywhere and shipped economically over long distances...i.e. fabrication can occur at a factory in a rural location and assemblies can be moved by rail or barge.
I wonder if this building project, which the submitted link says has not even received government approval, will go the way of high-speed rail in China: first, a lot of gee-whiz headlines; second, deadly failures. Shoddy construction of buildings led to considerable loss of life during recent earthquakes in China.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-06-china-construc...
(2008 Sichuan earthquake)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/deadly-earthquake...
(2012 Qinghai earthquake)
I've been reading the Chinese press in the original Chinese for a long time, so I tend to read between the lines when I see news out of China.
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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!
If it's only 10 cm taller, that sounds like within the margin of error of where you measure. Not that I have any idea what the standard "building height" measurement entails.
Obviously, 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…
There's always a lead time. But the pace at which prefabricated items can be built in a factory is significantly greater than that at which items can be site built. The constraints on an urban site are a significant logistical problem - site fabrication requires lots of different trades arriving through city traffic at the same time because there isn't much space in which materials may be staged. Every trade adds to…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's always a lead time. But the pace at which prefabricated items can be built in a factory is significantly greater than that at which items can be site built. The constraints on an urban site are a significant logistical problem - site fabrication requires lots of different trades arriving through city traffic at the same time because there isn't much space in which materials may be staged. Every trade adds to…
Do you think it's practical to ship the pieces from china to the u.s. or europe ?
> ...projected cost at US$628 million — as compared with the US$1.5 billion Burj Khalifa.
Seems like the only thing the Burj Khalifa has going for it is that it, well, already exists. This is a pretty big advantage though. Anyone can talk big before construction delays, government regulations, and other interference come into play.