30 Story Building Constructed in just 360 Hours–A Time-lapse Video

How fast we humans can do things? well, here’s an example. A 30 Story, 183,000-square-foot Hotel Building has been built in just 360 Hours (15 days). The Hotel was erected near the Dongting lake, in the Hunan Province, China, by Broad Group, a Chinese construction company specialized in sustainable architecture.

The Hotel is so solid that it can resist a 9 magnitude earthquake, and Five times more energy efficient

The building uses prefabricated modules (with a +/- 0.2mm precision in the fabrication process) mounted on a steel structure, with diagonal steel bracing.

Here’s the Time-lapse video (6:07) of the 360 Hour Construction

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