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> Broad Sustainable Building spent four and a half months fabricating the building’s 2,736 modules before construction began. The first 20 floors were completed last year, and the remaining 37 were built from 31 January to 17 February this year, Xiao said.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/chinese-constru...
Sometimes I think IT industry is moving slow, because it's so much harder to multiply the efforts with more human power. IT is so much quality over quantity that effects like this would not happen easily. Although there is no mention of the planning involved in the construction of the building, I think the result is astonishing.
Even more so as people have created frameworks and libraries that you can use freely to compose your application in much less time than if you had to do it all over again.
Some of these frameworks and libraries simplify the process so much that you CAN throw more human power at it and still get good results.
19 days to -assemble- a 57 storey tower. Four and a half months constructing the modules for assembly. > Broad Sustainable Building spent four and a half months fabricating the building’s 2,736 modules before construction began. The first 20 floors were completed last year, and the remaining 37 were built from 31 January to 17 February this year, Xiao said. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/chinese-constru…
Early on in the article I wondered about how steel was going to be CO2-efficient, given the amount of coal involved in its production; but then I see it's as a replacement for concrete, which is much worse.
[1] http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4190319-u-s-steel-natural-...
[2] https://coalactionnetworkaotearoa.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/c...
Early on in the article I wondered about how steel was going to be CO2-efficient, given the amount of coal involved in its production; but then I see it's as a replacement for concrete, which is much worse.
19 days to -assemble- a 57 storey tower. Four and a half months constructing the modules for assembly. > Broad Sustainable Building spent four and a half months fabricating the building’s 2,736 modules before construction began. The first 20 floors were completed last year, and the remaining 37 were built from 31 January to 17 February this year, Xiao said. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/chinese-constru…
The Soviets built these type of buildings at the same speed in the 60s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%C3%A1k Amazing, doing it higher than 20 floors though.