An ambitious Chinese construction company announced that it plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper in Changsha. At 838 meters the building will be 10 meters higher than the current #1, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The Burj took 6 years to build, but the Chinese company Broad says it can do it within 7 months from the moment it will break ground!
Unbelievable? Maybe, until you consider that they have some previous experience in the super-fast construction of tall structures. I wrote about about Broad on this blog twice already over the past years, once when they constructed a 15-story hotel in 6 days, and once when they finished a 30-story building in 15 days. And now they plan to go from 30 stories to 22o stories using a similar method with pre-fabricated components from its factory.
Still, I am not sure if I would feel safe over 800 meters above the ground in their building. The company may have experience in 30-story buildings, but structures that are more than 7 times as tall are a different league, and they have no previous experience with that kind of skyscrapers. Let’s see what’s going to happen, their plan is to finish the building before the end of the year.
“The company may have experience in 30-story buildings, but structures that are more than 7 times as tall are a different league, and they have no previous experience with that kind of skyscrapers.”
Haha, yeah, I agree. Reminds me of the feeling at Chinese theme parks. At theme parks in the West I can say to myself “no matter how scary it *feels*, I know they must have safety tested it like crazy”. In China, on the other hand…
This whole project strikes me as a modern Tower of Babel. Hope they know what they’re doing.
I just looked up the Burj Khalifa; it was built by Samsung, who had also built the Taipei 101 and Petronas Towers, ie, knew what they were doing. Lets hope these guys in China don’t bite off more than they can chew…
ik ben er 2 weken geleden langsgereden. er staat helemaal niets. gewoon langs een X (县) landweggetje met een restaurant voor vrachtwagenchauffeurs en een aantal boerderijen. helemaal niets qua bouwplan, project or zelfs ook maar vlakgemaakt grond. helemaal niets. een aantal van m’n contacten denken dat het een publiciteitsstunt is
The comment above in Dutch is from a person who visited the potential site for this project, and there is nothing there yet. Just a country road with a restaurant for truckers and some farms. No building plan or anything else. Some of his contacts think it’s a publicity stunt.
Could be right, this plan seems to be over the top. Maybe they’ll come up with some (political) reason why they can’t build it, but then they already have all the PR they wanted to have. If I hear anything about it later this year I will put it on this blog.
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