Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days

we all know that china leads the world in safety and quality! pun intended, lead, leads get it lol! i dare you to move in there with your babies.

Originally posted by Raist
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I am not sure how right that is, but I am certain China is working very hard at becoming the most dominant power in the world.

China seeks power and a lot of it.

Raist

China will become the most dominant power in the world if things don't change soon. I think we all better start learning Chinese instead of Spanish soon. 我正在学习中文！

Originally posted by Mactire
You couldn't pay me to stay in that place.

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What????? You don't trust Chinese construction standards???? You must be a racist.

After hearing from some of my friends, who go to China to check up on quality control of parts made there...... I wouldn't even walk on the street next to it. They tell numerous stories of them subbing out critical parts with sub standard parts that cost less. It's a rare day that they don't find something not made to the specifications originally spelled out in their production contracts.

To say that this is accomplished due to the Chinese workers not taking bathroom breaks, is completely ridiculous, its an insult to all the hardworking people in the construction industry of which I'm proud to be a part of.
China's economy is subsidized by their government.
Low labor costs, combined with minimal regulations make them the darlings of multi-national corporations, as soon as they start to demand a higher standard of living, watch all these jobs, progress and feats of industry move somewhere else.

Originally posted by jganer
China will become the most dominant power in the world if things don't change soon. I think we all better start learning Chinese instead of Spanish soon. 我正在学习中文！

I'll be glad to learn Chinese. As soon as they pry my firearm from my cold, dead fingers.

I'm not going to apologize for saying this but we're fighting the wrong people. the Chinese are the ones who want a war and it looks like we're going to have to give them one.

I am surprised to find myself defensive of China from all these snarky comments. Are you people that brainwashed with false patriotism that you can't see the accomplishment, effort and industriousness of the Chinese? Look people, China is a country very much in ascendancy. It has figured things out pretty well and shows a great willingness to adapt and learn from its mistakes. They learned the economic model of communism does not work, so they instituted capitalism with massive government investment in infrastructure, education and research. Lo and behold, barely three decades later and they have the number 2 economy. They are just learning of that with growth comes great harm to the environment, so they have just started to correct in that regard too. Watch them have the most green economy in ten years as we sit here and bitch and moan and continue to encourage disfunctional government.

Ah, and China and the rest of the world sees our current system of government and NO ONE in their right mind would want to emulate us right now. You may not like their model, but guess what, they have a different reality where a portion of their population is far behind culturally and in the truth is that strict government control and planning allows them to avoid the messiness of "democracy" to actually get things done for their society. When most of the their society gets educated, watch a gradual easing of the political structures and greater speeech freedom.

Freedom is great, but it comes with responsibilities. Everyone the world over can see that we don't respect our freedoms, nor do we take its responsibilities seriously. We don't honor our freedoms either. We use it as a sound bite and as a wedge against our fellow citizen. Again I ask, who wants to emulate that? And don't be so ignorant to think only Americans are free. Point in fact is that Americans are FAR less free than many other nations -- especially as Americans are enprisoned by debt, slave to employer-provided healthcare, beast of burdens who have been tricked to take pride in working 60 hour weeks.

As for China, I really don't want to hear talk about the small number of political prisoners they have or the restrictions of porn and some political content they deem subversive to their society. Who are we to judge? They have some political prisoners, so do we, by the tens of thoussands we have people incarcerated for tiny amounts of weed possession, for stealing a loaf of bread. Meanwhile the Chinese actually charge and put in prison the abusive rich and the fraudsters, while here they lawyer up and plead out as the poor rot in jail.

Additionally, did you know in China it brings great shame on you to have ultra superfluous levels of wealth for wealth's sake? Do you laugh at that ethic? I don't.

China ain't perfect, but neither are we, not by a long shot. Disparage them all you want -- they are eating our lunch, they are investing billions in infrastructure as we diddle and play moronic games in politics. They are investing massively in their future as our "great" (ignoramous) leaders are preaching choking cut back on everything. Ten years you'll wake up to grapes of wrath, while the average Chinese will be living in great happiness and likely much more REAL freedom than you'll have.

Originally posted by jganer


WOW! China is accomplishing alot latley. Who else can build a 15-story hotel in 6 days? This is just more proof to me that China is on the path to take the #1 spot from us western countries in a couple years.

Actually, to me, it just shows how China lacks construction codes.

Let's just say concrete takes at least 7 days to cure to a sufficient strength (unless high early strength was used.....way more expensive).

I know as an engineer I will never step a foot into this death trap hotel.

I though it was 48hrs

Chinese Construct Hotel In 48 Hours

so was it 6 days .. (144hrs) or 2 days (48hrs) ??
both are plausible even in 2 days .. the concept is like LEGO just assemble it in a record time

It is defiantly possible to be done using prefab materials, built properly and to code.
After the slab of a house is poured and has cured, using prefab materials and a well organised team you can have the house to lockup stage in a manner of days.

A quick search found me this house built in a day.

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This is true but a house is not 15 story hotel. There is a huge difference in weight and displacement of said weight.

Yes, everything might have been pre-fabrication and nothing more than a lego system making this possible. I still would be very hesitant to go inside it. Legos make great toys, not so great 15 story hotels in my opinion.

Raist

Originally posted by conspiracy nut
we all know that china leads the world in safety and quality! pun intended, lead, leads get it lol! i dare you to move in there with your babies.

Indeed, China has a very very bad reputation here in Asia. Especially in terms of safety and quality.

Hmmm my experience of erections that appear that fast is they never last long.

Anyway, they put together a prefab, the actual making of the 'parts' would have taken months... I'm impressed but not that impressed.

I can build a lego house in under 5 minutes... My son taught me!

Originally posted by jganer
WOW! China is accomplishing alot latley. Who else can build a 15-story hotel in 6 days?

d00d, from "How I met your Mother" as Ted says "An interesting fact for the Empire state building is that it climbed 4 floors per week".

Well, Here in Australia i've been watching a building grow for a couple years it feels like now.

They first dug a huge hole. That took about 6 months. Then they started construction. Seems like since construction started it feels like a year, AND they're up about 7 or 8 or 9 floors. I mean WTF!?!?!

Shouldn't buildings be built faster now days?

So that they would never awaken and compete with us we tried keeping them in Communism. We tried teaching them that Capitalism is evil. They didnt buy it. The Giant has awoken.

Extreme Makeover...Chinese Edition.

Interesting video, thanks for posting.

That just wouldn't happen here in Britain.

What a shame they can't do something like this in other parts of the world where people are still living in tents, or under rubbish in Haiti despite it being ages since the earthquake.

I'm sure they could use the cost of the G20 to make a few of these things, and hold the G20 in an army base or similar.

CX.

They may also not have to deal with as many...

Building codes
Multiple inspections
Safety (OSHA) regulations
Environmental regulations.
Permits and forms to fill out.
Labor Laws or unions.
and last but by no means least
Lawyers.

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I'm not saying that loosing up on some of the above is a totally bad idea all the time. How long would it take to build some older structures in the US (like the Hoover Dam) if we were to build them today given all the above.

We used to build a lot of tower blocks in the UK along the same principle they're called "Large Panel System Buildings"
I think that we gave up on them after the 60's though as the construction methods often resulted in things like this happening

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From my mother in law who is Chinese."The safety and quality in china is very bad".
An accomplishment of great proportion?? Only time can define this factor,probably end up like most of the other Chinese garbage filling landfill.
Everything they make is of inferior standard,nothing lasts,ever seen a good quality product come from china????
Even their missile fuel cells are inferior.

Guarantee they will say oops, we forgot to do this and that, but it's done. The natural will take care of the building itself. However, if the building still stand for next 50 years with all natural force on it, then I will be impressed.

In my opinion, the America constructors can do that, but it's too pricey as we the Americans usually charge 300% to 1,000% more for expeditive service. It's seem that the China constructors still get same pay salary if they are doing expeditive service, but you can proof me wrong.

Bottom line, the America workers are overcharge and lazy in some ways.

Originally posted by Ben81
I though it was 48hrs

Chinese Construct Hotel In 48 Hours

so was it 6 days .. (144hrs) or 2 days (48hrs) ??
both are plausible even in 2 days .. the concept is like LEGO just assemble it in a record time

It looks to me they built the structure of the building in 2 days, while the rest was built within 6 days.