30 Storey hotel in 15 days
30 Storey hotel in 15 days
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30 Storey hotel in 15 days
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RE: 30 Storey hotel in 15 days
As you watch the video you can see the tower crane structure shift from side to side.
Anybody know what kind of foundations they installed?
RE: 30 Storey hotel in 15 days
Very often, the workers live on site in two story motel-type structures and work long shifts. If you notice, there is always good safety protection, unless the building goes up faster than they can put it up.
As I recall, the seismic activity in that area is quite frequent, but has had a long history of relatively minor events.
The construction there is a different concept and is not necessarily cost/economic based because of the needs.
Dick
Engineer and international traveler interested in construction techniques, problems and proper design.
RE: 30 Storey hotel in 15 days
RE: 30 Storey hotel in 15 days
I guided 3 different Chinese engineer/construction groups through the Excalibur and was even able to get a couple of sets of drawing for them. Most of the engineers were educated in the U.S. (heavy on Stanford, Illinois and USC).
The Chinese shaking table for structures looks like one in Japan that is used for seismic testing.
Dick
Engineer and international traveler interested in construction techniques, problems and proper design.
RE: 30 Storey hotel in 15 days
RE: 30 Storey hotel in 15 days
If you like Tinkertoys, just go to Russia and the "provinces" and look at the repetitive precast concrete structures where they seemed to build the same buildings everywhere in groups of 10 to 30 irregardless of the local conditions and loading. The Albanian seismic collapses are an example of the problems.
Dick
Engineer and international traveler interested in construction techniques, problems and proper design.