Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days - Polidicks

They're starting to do this in the United States as well, where they make pre-made houses in a factory that can be folded up and shipped anywhere in the country and then set up in a couple of days, I watch too much DIY Network.

Well, it's a prototype building, i think some flaws were cut to achieve that, but even still what an amazing feat.

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;26041319]This isn't a good thing.[/QUOTE] Both ends of the stupid-spectrum have been reached in this thread. Good show

That's not even a fucking building. I bet we could build that in three days. Look at it, it is ALL prefabricated by a factory somewhere. Not impressive at all. You could have automated 3/4 of the human labor, too.

[QUOTE=Apocalypsox;26044374]That's not even a fucking building. I bet we could build that in three days. Look at it, it is ALL prefabricated by a factory somewhere. Not impressive at all. You could have automated 3/4 of the human labor, too.[/QUOTE] No, it's actually pretty impressive. One difference between the West and China is that while the West COULD be building hotels in 3 days and making ground breaking strides in production, China is actually doing it. I do want to point out that the Amish have been raising barns in 6 hours for a hundred years, with absolutely no modern technology.

[QUOTE=Ivebo;26016706]They constructed sufficient pylons.[/QUOTE] That's Korea.

[QUOTE=CharadesV2;26043679]They're starting to do this in the United States as well, where they make pre-made houses in a factory that can be folded up and shipped anywhere in the country and then set up in a couple of days, I watch too much DIY Network.[/QUOTE] If it matters, newer bridges are prefabbed, with the lateral supports built off site at a factory. While the vertical support columns are built on site. It greatly reduces build time, and is easier on the workers. While most western countries have the infrastructure to build a building just as fast, we do not due to the inherent safety risks, and the large skilled workforce required to do such a task.

[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;26044300]Both ends of the stupid-spectrum have been reached in this thread. Good show[/QUOTE] Because I was totally saying we should remove minimum wage laws. I was more wondering why the United States (and the West in general) have given up on really building anything anymore.

I don't think that much more could have been automated then they did. I think only the external insulation could be done in an automated way. You can't automate the building of an interior of a building, a machine that could do that would be costly, impractical due to space restrictions, and would be less efficient then just having more people work on the interior. I didn't see any unsafe practices in how they did the construction. I wouldn't be surprised if they were making the sections as the building was being constructed. The thing being brought in on the trucks were floors/ceilings. All the support bracing and vertical columns were assembled on site.

[QUOTE=evilweazel;26016718]What could they do with a month....[/QUOTE] A to life replica of the empire state building?

[QUOTE=LF9000;26017611]Its like your saying that prefabricated parts are a bad thing.[/QUOTE] "I feel like you're saying that having no freedoms is bad" [editline]13th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Regulas021;26044417]No, it's actually pretty impressive. One difference between the West and China is that while the West COULD be building hotels in 3 days and making ground breaking strides in production, China is actually doing it. I do want to point out that the Amish have been raising barns in 6 hours for a hundred years, with absolutely no modern technology.[/QUOTE] Barns are like 4 walls and a roof

[QUOTE=Tetracycline;26046885]"I feel like you're saying that having no freedoms is bad" [editline]13th November 2010[/editline] Barns are like 4 walls and a roof[/QUOTE] Which sounds pretty easy if you know literally nothing about construction or construction techniques of the early 1800s

First a hotel, then a city block, then a city, then New Beijing, Capitol of Mars. I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.

[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;26038176]What. I've never heard of Warcrimes committed against China from Britain or the US.[/QUOTE] how about the opium war