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dbaz 11-12-2010 06:03 PM

holy fuck they had like 10 cranes going at once your lucky to see 2 or 3 going at once in canada

ilvtofu 11-12-2010 06:18 PM

A lot of the comments from some users here aren't getting the point. The highlight of the video has nothing to do with cheap labour and hardwork, it's about the prefab process. Think of it like ikea furniture, it's all made with holes/screws included and if you could put together a lego set as a kid you could easily put together a piece of their furniture. It saves space and materials but also ultimately money to do it this way, rather than to have a regular furniture store stock furniture that's pre assembled. As long as you properly design something so that your average joe could figure out, time can be saved dramatically and a lot of stress.

It's very cost effective to do things this way and it's not the concept of cheap/fast chinese work that the story is about.

Mugen EvOlutioN 11-12-2010 06:30 PM

in canada it woulda taken them 4 months to build that thing

guesswho 11-12-2010 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 7183571)
Exactly. I've stayed in many hotels and apartments in China, and the workmanship is ALWAYS (not sometimes, ALWAYS) shit. Even "nice" apartments, gated communities, etc.

One place I stayed at was beautifully decorated, fully landscaped, managed, etc. But the drains in the bathroom weren't done properly, so after you shower, the entire bathroom is filled with water. :facepalm:

agreed, i recently went to china, changsha hangzhou shanghai etc, they don't know how to maintain it, they can build it really nicely, but they don't do renovations to keep it looking nice, after a few years it looks like a 20 year old hotel in vancouver

dogeatcookie 11-12-2010 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 7183616)
Ah, I love it when RS gets it so right sometimes. Thanks! :thumbsup:

http://carlrules.com/images/feels-good-man.jpg

Does "so right" mean "I so agree with skinnypupp?

:troll:

EcLiPsEbOi 11-12-2010 08:27 PM

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cool but no thanks....

not sure about many of you but I for one wouldn't wanna live in or own something I wouldn't feel safe inside regardless of how fast it will get built.

mipy601 11-12-2010 08:30 PM

chinese ppl are amazing

Vale46Rossi 11-12-2010 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ilvtofu (Post 7183788)
A lot of the comments from some users here aren't getting the point. The highlight of the video has nothing to do with cheap labour and hardwork, it's about the prefab process. Think of it like ikea furniture, it's all made with holes/screws included and if you could put together a lego set as a kid you could easily put together a piece of their furniture. It saves space and materials but also ultimately money to do it this way, rather than to have a regular furniture store stock furniture that's pre assembled. As long as you properly design something so that your average joe could figure out, time can be saved dramatically and a lot of stress.

It's very cost effective to do things this way and it's not the concept of cheap/fast chinese work that the story is about.


Excatly, also it does a lot less harm to the environment.

insomniac 11-12-2010 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by dbaz (Post 7183773)
holy fuck they had like 10 cranes going at once your lucky to see 2 or 3 going at once in canada

this. most apartments that are built here you only see 1 crane. and in china if you look at the timelapse you can see that they work 24/7 with like 7 cranes with the place filled with workers. whereas here they only work half a day or less. sometimes people arnt even working cause "parts arnt here yet". in china the rules are pretty strict too.

you can tell people in china work efficiently just from the roads. instead of digging up the old road and repave and all that (for example 41st ave right now) in china they have pieces of the roads already made (like lego pieces) and they simply just take out the old road and put in the new piece. job done fast and efficiently and they also work at night when traffic is low. whereas in canada they work during rushhours :rolleyes:

Vale46Rossi 11-12-2010 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by 737! (Post 7184025)
this. most apartments that are built here you only see 1 crane. and in china if you look at the timelapse you can see that they work 24/7 with like 7 cranes with the place filled with workers. whereas here they only work half a day or less. sometimes not even working cause "parts arnt here yet". in china the rules are pretty strict too. you can tell from the roads. instead of digging up the old road and repave and all that (for example 41st ave right now) in china they have pieces of the roads already made (like lego pieces) and they simply just take out the old road and put in the new piece. job done fast and efficiently and they also work at night when traffic is low. whereas in canada they work during rushhours :rolleyes:

You mean like the 99 right now? Where getting stuck in traffic for 2 hours is a must?

Toeknee 11-12-2010 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 1exotic (Post 7183714)
0:36

you know the building is not safe now.

^lol :troll:

dat_steve 11-12-2010 10:26 PM

like freakin ants building a colony out of no where. freakin ants man.

604nguyen 11-12-2010 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by StevenDuang (Post 7184004)
Excatly, also it does a lot less harm to the environment.

what good is an environmentally sustainable building when the building itself could be a safety hazard to its occupants

Lomac 11-12-2010 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by 737! (Post 7184025)
you can tell people in china work efficiently just from the roads. instead of digging up the old road and repave and all that (for example 41st ave right now) in china they have pieces of the roads already made (like lego pieces) and they simply just take out the old road and put in the new piece. job done fast and efficiently and they also work at night when traffic is low. whereas in canada they work during rushhours :rolleyes:

I hate those prefab concrete slabs on roads. They're similar to what the States have on the I5. Every couple seconds... thunk...thunk...thunk. Sure, I'm probably a bit more annoyed by 'em because my suspension is nice and stiff, but even when I'm in a stock car they're annoying to go over.

As for working at night time, it's not like they don't do that here. Sure, it's usually on roads like Hwy1 and 99, but that's because if you did road work on something like W41 you'd get a thousand complaints from home owners about the noise.

LiquidTurbo 11-12-2010 10:53 PM

Most people are making judgments about the building merely because it was built fast. Built fast does not constitute engineered poorly. They are not the same thing.

Lomac 11-12-2010 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo (Post 7184118)
Most people are making judgments about the building merely because it was built fast. Built fast does not constitute engineered poorly. They are not the same thing.

Especially when they used prefabbed sections and just bolted them together. But as someone mentioned earlier, if they were using raw beams and putting it all together at the site, it would definitely take much longer. The reason why it's usually not done here is because most of our roads aren't capable of transporting those giant built sections of steel, or if they are, there'd be too many complaints about roads being closed to accommodate the extra wide loads.

LiquidTurbo 11-12-2010 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 7183616)
Ah, I love it when RS gets it so right sometimes. Thanks! :thumbsup:

http://carlrules.com/images/feels-good-man.jpg

So you need RS to validate your opinion in order to "feel good"? :facepalm: :troll:

Hondaracer 11-13-2010 12:55 AM

you know how precise each one of those sections has to be to make a squared building?

pre-engineered metal framing HERE has a shit load of problems if not installed right, not to mention other pre-fabbed stuff like truss's etc. if they are not meticulously installed, your whole house is out of wack and walls and ceilings run into angled corners etc.

I'd say it's fairly safe to say that yes, this building is infact built poorly, the argument whether it's structurally sound or not is another matter, but imo to put together 16 stories over 6 days, theres no way in hell the time was spent on each floor to make sure you are level etc.

one floor in that building 1/8th of an inch off, causes the whole building to be off, and the frame being installed over 6 days doesn't have any additional flex or settlement once 15+ more stories are installed on top of it shortly after?

shit is garbage holmes

LiquidTurbo 11-13-2010 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Hondaracer (Post 7184234)
you know how precise each one of those sections has to be to make a squared building?

pre-engineered metal framing HERE has a shit load of problems if not installed right, not to mention other pre-fabbed stuff like truss's etc. if they are not meticulously installed, your whole house is out of wack and walls and ceilings run into angled corners etc.

I'd say it's fairly safe to say that yes, this building is infact built poorly, the argument whether it's structurally sound or not is another matter, but imo to put together 16 stories over 6 days, theres no way in hell the time was spent on each floor to make sure you are level etc.

one floor in that building 1/8th of an inch off, causes the whole building to be off, and the frame being installed over 6 days doesn't have any additional flex or settlement once 15+ more stories are installed on top of it shortly after?

shit is garbage holmes

You know precise the pyramids are? Building those were a hell of a lot more difficult than this.

The fact is, we have no idea how theses modular pieces were designed. What if the building is structurally sound?

We have no engineering data at all so all we can do is speculate.

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one floor in that building 1/8th of an inch off, causes the whole building to be off, and the frame being installed over 6 days doesn't have any additional flex or settlement once 15+ more stories are installed on top of it shortly after?
No shit sherlock. You honestly think that wasn't considered in design? :facepalm:

AzNightmare 11-13-2010 01:39 AM

that's pretty cool. They should film more structures being built like that.

MG1 11-13-2010 02:07 AM

BWAHAHAHAHA................

I had one of those reading fail moments. I saw the caption on the youtube video and thought I saw, "Ark Hotel Time Colapse Building 15 S..."

ZhangFei 11-13-2010 02:07 AM

this reminds me of warcraft or starcraft.

build your shit up quickly before others and then once it's finished, start attacking people who are way behind.

SkinnyPupp 11-13-2010 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo (Post 7184136)
So you need RS to validate your opinion in order to "feel good"? :facepalm: :troll:

Wow, good one. Clapping.

N, it just makes me feel good that this place isn't completely filled with complete morons. There are of course a few exceptions :rolleyes:

StylinRed 11-13-2010 03:07 AM

reminds me of a national geographic show that was on the other day where they showed the construction of some olympic buildings in China the bracing posts that they were installing some were too short; some didn't arrive; some weren't structurally sound

for the short ones they just jacked them up with some o-rings until they were the same height as the others -_-

FerrariEnzo 11-13-2010 03:24 AM

hmm.... it doesnt look strong... but time is money, right?


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