Chinese Invent Methodology for Speed-Building

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Jonathan Kaiman, China's High-Speed Building Boom. A 30-story hotel in Changsha went up in two weeks. Some question the safety in that, but the builder defends its methods. Los Angeles Times, Mar 7, 2012
http://www.latimes.com/news/nati ... t-building-20120308,0,5608518.story
(Last January, Broad Sustainable Building constructed in 15 days with prefabricated material a 30-story Changsha hotel called T-30)

Quote: "In other countries, the most advanced prefab construction methods can reduce building times by a third to half, Smith said. The builders of the Changsha hotel did better, knocking one-half to two-thirds off the normal schedule. 'It's unfathomable,' Smith said.

Note: The web page of the report carries the videoclip, which was "uploaded by differentenergy on Jan 6, 2012" to YouTube.com (as of now: 4,347,792 views).