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China to build the world’s tallest skyscraper — in 90 days
They will be able to achieve this impossibly fast construction rate by using a prefabricated modular technology developed by Broad Sustainable Building, a company that has built 20 tall structures in China so far, including the that 30-story hotel.
Since they built that hotel, the company has been perfecting their technology, which they are now claiming will turn their project into the world’s tallest skyscraper in just three months. That’s a whooping five floors per day, which seems just absurd. According to Construction Week Online, the company is very serious about it. The senior VP of the Broad Group, Juliet Jiang, has publicly said that they “will go on as planned with the completion of five storeys a day.”
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Yeah ok. The rest of you can go ahead, I’ll catch up, no really. Meet you on floor 90.
Bishop on November 20, 2012 at 9:48 PM
But will it last 90 days after it is built?
Kenosha Kid on November 20, 2012 at 9:49 PM
And 11 years later there’s still a big hole in the ground in NYC.
Mark1971 on November 20, 2012 at 9:49 PM
Another sign of China’s bubblicious ghost economy. This isn’t a building — it’s a jobs program to keep the urban Chinese from rioting.
Robert_Paulson on November 20, 2012 at 9:52 PM
What can possibly go wrong?
WannabeAnglican on November 20, 2012 at 9:55 PM
Hope they don’t use that “Made in China” crap…
Oh wait.
Left Coast Right Mind on November 20, 2012 at 9:56 PM
Good deal…
‘Hey!! You guys that haven’t built anything but ignorance and poverty for 700 years…something to knock down and ease the ButtHurt!!’
BigWyo on November 20, 2012 at 9:56 PM
Go for it rocket prince.
tom daschle concerned on November 20, 2012 at 9:56 PM
Bamboo is amazing stuff.
trigon on November 20, 2012 at 9:57 PM
Yeah, that Chinese economy is all fake. Ghost cities everywhere.
DarkCurrent on November 20, 2012 at 9:57 PM
We’ve all seen how the result of their quickly built bridges. Maybe they want their own 9/11?
NotCoach on November 20, 2012 at 9:59 PM
Propagandist is hear.
Submit to the party.
tom daschle concerned on November 20, 2012 at 10:00 PM
I hope somebody makes a time lapse video.
Tc0061 on November 20, 2012 at 10:00 PM
Modular construction was never intended for strength, per se, but speed of erection and speed alone (not taking into account the time spent manufacturing the bits & pieces in various factories/plants).
It’s like the tie-down bands we used when setting modular homes up. They’re *supposed* to protect your home from tornadoes. We all knew how ridiculous that was, but hey, if it makes them feel better…
If they pull it off in 90 days I’ll be impressed. If it then lasts nine years, I’ll name my never-to-be-born next daughter China. Or maybe I’ll just adopt one of those rare specimens.
Ugly on November 20, 2012 at 10:00 PM
May all important and intelligent chinese inhabit this structure during all extreme storms.
tom daschle concerned on November 20, 2012 at 10:01 PM
haha…
Ugly on November 20, 2012 at 10:03 PM
Maybe they can erect a 220 story frame in 90 days but that is not completing it.
Also since the components are pre-fab that means they have been manufacturing them a long time before they begin assembly.
If they can pull it off it will be impressive.
NeoKong on November 20, 2012 at 10:04 PM
Made in China. Like everything else you get at the Dollar store, it will be cheap, made with slave labor, give you lead poisoning, then fall apart in a month.
Boogeyman on November 20, 2012 at 10:08 PM
Yes, everything is just peachy.
JPeterman on November 20, 2012 at 10:08 PM
Want to know the best way to understand China?
Look at their FDA compliance and noncompliance.
Not to mention their black market pharma.
Chinese=death, not pretty city videos.
tom daschle concerned on November 20, 2012 at 10:09 PM
I wouldn’t live in it, or work in it, or step foot in it for longer than a few minutes. A 220 story building in 90 days complete with plumbing, lighting, HVAC…no thanks. 5 stories a day means the bare minimum of quality control.
6 months after completion some dude is going to flick a light switch somewhere in there and the entire place is going to light up like a bonfire.
Bishop on November 20, 2012 at 10:09 PM
We have cities, counties, and states with building codes that range from the ridiculous to the life-preserving.
The Chinese? Eh…not so much.
CorporatePiggy on November 20, 2012 at 10:11 PM
Perhaps related, -a worldwide shortage of Lego appears likely to hit the Christmas season hard.
slickwillie2001 on November 20, 2012 at 10:14 PM
How long will it take for the stripes to heal?
OldEnglish on November 20, 2012 at 10:14 PM
That’s not an overstatement… it’s happened before.
Ugly on November 20, 2012 at 10:14 PM
Yeah, it breaks my heart.
jix on November 20, 2012 at 10:17 PM
Umm. Any understand the DISTINCT DIFFERENCE?
Ugly on November 20, 2012 at 10:26 PM
*Any = Anyone
Ugly on November 20, 2012 at 10:27 PM
You couldn’t pay me to be anywhere near that building.
disa on November 20, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Wonder if they are using crappy Chinese steel and drywall? lol
Tilly on November 20, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Yeah, we can’t build anything because of stifling bureaucracy and embarrassing levels of indecision.
MelonCollie on November 20, 2012 at 11:10 PM
Just like the bridge that was to take 3 years to build and it was done in 18 months. Then it fell over in 9 months after it was open.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-29/china-s-bridges-are-falling-down.html
Just how was the Island dispute with Japan ended. The new iPhone needed to be made so, they did not have time to riots. Now go build some big round something and towers to the sky so, not to riot.
http://kotaku.com/5960041/its-like-china-is-making-a-real-stargate-transport-ring
tjexcite on November 20, 2012 at 11:22 PM
There is no way in hell such a building wouldn’t collapse within a month.
The ChiComs aren’t even particularly adept engineers, just good imitators.
But they do have a billion plus in slave commie labor. I guess they could build a pyramid to the moon with that if they wanted to spend 1,000 years working on it.
wildcat72 on November 21, 2012 at 12:25 AM
The world’s tallest mobile home?
Ward Cleaver on November 21, 2012 at 12:28 AM
I’m going to keep this comment on file, as you should as well.
Didn’t you once predict, about a year ago I think, that the PRC would be invading Taiwan this year? Time’s not quite up yet of course, but I wonder if you’re still sticking with that?
DarkCurrent on November 21, 2012 at 12:33 AM
Businessweek: The Cracks in China’s Shiny Buildings
Shy Guy on November 21, 2012 at 1:19 AM
I actually saw the building pictured at the top of the article the day after it happened. It was on the road to our offices. I’ve heard that the smallish company that manufactured the windows saw a huge increase in sales because many of them actually remained intact.
DarkCurrent on November 21, 2012 at 1:27 AM
They’re much better at origami?
Ronnie on November 21, 2012 at 3:25 AM
Not if the Islamokazis have anything to say about it.
Steve Eggleston on November 21, 2012 at 7:59 AM
Great post. The bloomberg.com article is worth reading all the way through. Anybody still want to hold China up as an example? /gag
ElectricPhase on November 21, 2012 at 8:26 AM
More power to them! No doubt this building won’t be designed by a committee representing disenfranchised interest groups, in partnership with 100s of regulatory agencies, held hostage by the AFL-CIO, boycotted by PITA, occupied by OWS, nitpicked by the ADA, agitated by the SEIU, stonewalled by the Endangered Species Act, sued by the ACLU, and constructed with a freak’n mosque at the bottom.
Despite China’s political defects, this demonstrates what can be created by fixing our own.
elfman on November 21, 2012 at 9:05 AM