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Watch a 57-story skyscraper get built in just 19 days in this breakneck time-lapse
Remember Sky City? It was set to be the world’s tallest building, rising 220 stories and 2,750 feet above Changsha, China. But more importantly, the original goal was to build the massive skyscraper in just 90 days using pre-fabricated pieces. After pushing that back to the slightly more realistic seven months, construction on the building was […]
March 11, 2015
Business
China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. used during the entire 20th Century
So you’ve probably heard at least a little bit about the wildly expanding middle class in China and the extremely rapid growth of once-rural and tiny cities into giant metropolises just in the last couple of decades. But here is a statistic and a photo to put all of that into context, via Bill Gates. […]
February 25, 2015
Construction Equipment
Worker dangles from excavator hammer 100 feet up to cut column loose during demo
This is probably one of the craziest and most dangerous demolition videos we’ve come across yet. According to the YouTube uploader, this all took place in 2008 just outside his living room window in Beijing, China. A crew is demolishing a building in the heart of the city when a column doesn’t quite fall the […]
August 15, 2014
Construction Equipment
Failed demolition leaves half of a tower teetering precariously above city
Back in December 2009, crews got to work on the demolition of a 22-story residential tower in the city of Liuzhou in southern China. But things didn’t go exactly as planned. As the Daily Mail reported at the time, the implosion of the building successfully broke the building into two parts as planned—but failed to bring […]
May 22, 2014
Construction Equipment
“Ninjas” infiltrate construction of 2nd-tallest building, scale crane, grab terrifying footage (VIDEO, GALLERY)
No. 11 Story in 2014 « No. 12 No. 10 » [imagebrowser id=32] Not to be outdone by the crane operator on the very same jobsite, two Russian “urban ninjas” broke into the construction site of China’s Shanghai Tower and grabbed some pretty ridiculous photos of their own. But these two daredevils also took some […]
March 3, 2014
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