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Time Lapse Captures 30-Story Hotel Construction That Took Just 15 Days to Build

The Chinese construction company Broad Group is known for putting up buildings with record speed. How fast? Most recently, the company owned by Xian Min Zhang constructed a 30 story, 183,000-square-foot hotel in 15 days — 360 hours, according to Gizmodo.

If you think that’s fast, watch this time-lapsed video, which shows the hotel going up in about a minute:

According to Gizmodo, the building was constructed near Dongting lake, in the Hunan Province, China. Broad Group used prefabricated modules in this design. The final structure was not only tested by the China Academy of Building Research to withstand a 9.0 magnitude earthquake but it is also five times more energy efficient that similar buildings.

The description in YouTube video states that construction was finished just before we rang in the new year.

According to Gizmodo, Broad Group has a habit of making record-setting construction times. In 2010, the company built a hotel 15 stories high in six days. Watch time-lapse footage of that feat:

[H/T GeekOSystem]

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  • d400f
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:46pm

    US could do this if you added on several years to negotiate the Union Contracts, paid off all the robber-barren regulators and kissed DNC’s ring. This whole project is most likely made with 100% American innovations/methods/machines. patents smatents!

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    • PlowMan
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:25pm

      I agree with that but would you live or work there. Some (not all) of our regulations are there for a reason, safety!

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    • realistic_01
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:53pm

      @Plowman – 2nd video claims not one work injury during construction of the building.

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    • d400f
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:20pm

      Agreed. Not all regulations are created equal, and some are very important. There is no clear profit incentive to not pour chemicals in your backyard. But on the other hand are poorly thought out regulations a government can impose that damage a market. ie–Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which turned $100 million dollars of kid-sized ATVs and offroad motorcycles into useless paperweights because they contained lead. (lead in kids toys!) Would be nice to have comprehensive cost analysis done first, instead of knee-jerk regulations that pander to your base.

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    • jacques.daspy
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:38pm

      The Chinese are allowed to use all the construction technology that they can steal from the US. Similar, but not the same as the US sending automotive production technology to Japan. In post war Europe, there was the Marshall Plan and Europe got new factories and infrastructure courtesy of the US taxpayer. Japan got W. Edward Deming, a productivity expert that had no post war usefulness. He taught the Japanese how to build more, better, with less. They got an A+.

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    • jacques.daspy
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:39pm

      Did they allow liquid lunches?

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    • mindstruct
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:09pm

      I would never want to be in a building built that fast, I’ve been around construction way too long and people already cut way too many corners with out meeting deadlines. There is a reason why there are codes and regulations, mostly because people learned from piss-poor actions.
      I’m waiting for the story about this place falling to the ground.

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    • WeekendAtBernankes
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:25pm

      @realistic_01 He’s saying the building may not be safe.

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  • WTSpike
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:42pm

    I’ll bet the plumbing leaks.

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    • Look for the truth
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:01pm

      had to be union labor to move so fast
      :)

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    • SgtB
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:59pm

      @ look for the truth, HAHAHAHAHAHA! I love sarcasm. Union sucks sit on their arses all day and wait for their breaks and hour long lunches.

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  • Charles
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:33pm

    How did they do this so fast? No unions, no osha, no epa, no government intrusion.

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:42pm

      The article doesn’t say how long it will stay standing. I bet at least a couple of weeks.

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    • robh
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Exactly. Pretty much says it all.

      Efficiency, motivation, and incentive destroyed by all of the above.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:52pm

      With our money , they hurried up before our money is worthless !

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    • realistic_01
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:54pm

      @Jim in Houston – tested to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake. Doesn’t sound like it will be coming down anytime soon.

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    • jcannon98188
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:14pm

      Yeah, unless a Earth Destroying earthquake hits the area, I highly doubt that thing is coming down. What you all fail to see here, because you are blinded by american exceptionalism, is that we have been surpassed by many other countries on almost every level. They don’t have unions and stupid regulations to follow. Their workers get the job done, or they don’t get paid. As simple as that.

      Shoot, they did this in 15 days. How long has the lightrail been under construction here in Washington State near I-5?

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    • jacques.daspy
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:44pm

      But how long did it take them to build the Great Wall of China?

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  • DADDYOF4PLUS1
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:32pm

    What the hell? Why aren’t we doing stuff like this? Why don’t we innovate, create and produce anymore? Because our culture and politics is riddled with people like Obama, Mao and Stalin. Who hate success and the successful.We should have done something similar with the World Trade Center. Up in no time and shaped like a giant middle finger to the rest of the world that hates us.

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    • satanicmechanic
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:48pm

      There are a few easy answers to that, 1. Govt regulations and the buearocratic nightmare that is involved in getting said permits, 2. NIMBY groups that can complain about complete BS that doesnt really affect them. 3. Unions 4. Corrupt officials that need payoffs to sign off on projects like this.

      Not necessarily in that order.

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  • lvjohn
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:05pm

    Don’t believe it for one minute the concrete would not be strong enough to support all that weight in just 15 days, it would collapse.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:20pm

      guess you didnt READ or WATCH the video

      if you had, you would have found it was a prefab-building, and the video would have shown that no concrete trucks ever showed up to pour concrete

      and people wonder how democrats get away with lying all the time …………………you guys dont pay attention

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:34pm

      Don’t make generalizations of everyone based on ONE person.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:14pm

      Walt Disney built the Contemporary Resort with prefabricated rooms decades ago.

      http://www.disneycontemporary.com/content/secrets-and-history-contemporary-resort

      Okay, Walt Disney and U.S. Steel… Uncle Walt didn’t actually operated the cranes. I think he had already passed, anyway; but, he did design it and it was his concept, I understand.

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    • jacques.daspy
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:43pm

      The US could do pre-fab in the 1940′s, but only to win a war. In 1945 the US returned to the “civilian” method. Way more betta.

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  • Reload
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:01pm

    I dont think i wanna step foot in a 30 story building that only took 15 days to build.

    Excuse me sir, would you like me to cut your corner for you?

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    • realistic_01
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:57pm

      I heard of this new thing where they can send pictures through the air …

      Technology is lost on some people.

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    • Reload
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:38pm

      @realistic_01

      When I want your opinion, I’ll roll over and ask your mother.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:57am

    It is stated in the article , IT IS A PREFAB>>>>

    I built a 12′x17.5′ barn last year. It took me,by myself, OH six weeks. That is getting the materials, transporting them, cutting,assembly, and erection of said barn. I could have bought a prefab barn, had it delivered, and assembled it in a week.

    These people did an erector set. Impressive yes, but still …most of the work was done long before the start of ‘construction’. also it looked like the foundation was already there.

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:13pm

      Here’s REAL TIME footage of a 47 story skyscraper that came down in less than 7 seconds. The claims were that it was because of a few office fires. NIST changed their “official story” 5 TIMES before they came out with the never before heard of “thermal expansion” theory.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=XRm41tj9FAs

      Notice the sequential blasting of the windows going up the sides, just before it goes into immediate simultaneous catastrophic failure resulting in a NIST admitted freefall collapse.
      Buildings have burned for 18-20 hours straight, with white hot 100 ft. high flames coming out of the top, and were STILL standing the next day.
      You have been LIED to.
      http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/CaseStudy/HistoricFires/BuildingFires/default.htm

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    • GQQSER
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:16pm

      @ Shackero – Holy crap, the Koreans build entire super tankers that float and drive around the world for 20 years in 30 days. It’s a new form of building called M O D U L A R building. It’s only been around for a hundred years or so. I think guys like Henry Ford started using it while building smaller structures. BTW the Koreans built the tankers with one crane.

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  • Google_USS_Liberty
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:31am

    How bad would it be to hire them to build the “Freedom Tower”??

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:55am

      We use 2 build real fast here 2 before retriction that could take up to 25yrs of study 1st.

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    • flyingpeters
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:08pm

      See, amazing things can be done with slave labor. I’m sure the AFL-CIO and the Obama Dictatorship are taking notes…..Remember the Pyramids…….

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  • blazingaway
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:24am

    People who want to achieve and perform and thrive when free to do so will.
    Those who wish not to and seek to control and prosper from the productivity of others will do so through the abuse of governmental control and power that imposes it’s will upon others and restricts their freedom.
    We were once free and our greatness prospered … now we allow our government to suck the life from us by stealing our productivity and draining us of our resources.
    We are sick and full of parasitic organisms that must die before we can thrive.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:38am

      @blazing
      Bravo ! The parasite is killing the host….

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:52am

      The USA needs a good thorough worming. Just like livestock,who are not very productive when they are full of worms.

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    • jacques.daspy
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:53pm

      Actually, Chinese are major construction contractors through out the world. The also insist on using Chinese labor. Yeah, you rite, it was probably a publicity stunt. Think it worked?

      There are several prefab housing constructors in Mississippi. The do a very nice home which in fact is more resistant to hurricane damage than the house that was destroyed in Katrina. They just saw a need and brought a better product to the market.

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  • johnpaulkuchtajr
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:18am

    Will somebody please report these guys to our NLRB. There have to be some labor laws that have been broken here!

    Put an Obama czar on this right away!

    Oops! I forgot, they’re too busy preventing Boeing from building a new factory in SC! My bad!

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:24am

      This was no Union Project…not enough people standing around doing nothing..

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:17am

    In 1986 we built the Circus Circus Sky Tower in Reno. It was a stressed slab, poured column, concrete structure with a fiber panel and glass exterior. It went up a the rate of one floor every 7 days. As upper floors were being poured lower floors were being finished out. The first three floors and the basement took longer because they weren’t similar. The other 25 floors went up and were finished out working 8 hours a day five days a week. It wasn‘t as fast as the Chinese but I’ll bet we used less equipment and fewer people and more than likely did a much better job.

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    • c4123
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:44pm

      the fact your talking about 1986 and comparing it to 2011 makes no sense…

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  • EXPERT ON MY OPINION
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:08am

    I am certainly not an Engineer, But with that being said it seems like a lot of weight to put on a concrete foundation the has not had time to properly cure, I think I’ll settle for the Motel 6,

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:53am

    It would have taken three years and six million dollars to do that in America….. And thats just for the enviromental impact study…. Our Government at all levels , is what is ruining us and enslaving our children…. Our Government is the entity running industry and jobs out of this Country…. Our Government is the biggest, most direct and immediate threat to our way of life…. NOT IRAN !!!

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  • texasfireguy
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:50am

    Im not sure I want to be in a building that went up that fast. I bet it could set a new record, for the fastest collapsing building.

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    • NC1
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:11am

      That’s what I was thinking. I give it 10 years tops and it will be ready to be torn down.

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  • the point
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:41am

    Wanna’ know how they did it so fast ? Simple . No unions.

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  • dave928
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:29am

    I bet it’s not finished inside. They’ve gotten the structure and facade on the building but the finish work and building systems (electrical, HVAC, etc) probably will take another month or two to install and complete. However, even at that, this is probably going to be yet another one of those EMPTY buildings that China has built along with all of those EMPTY cities they’ve been building. I bet that 10 years from now, the building will still be empty, unfinished, and ready for demolition.

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  • BigSky
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:29am

    It’s easy to see how they built it so quickly, the construction project continued around the clock.

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  • bonziman1
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:27am

    No unions allowed.

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  • bonziman1
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:26am

    No unions allowed

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:26am

    You know what they say about a house built on a foundation of sticks???

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  • Firesaber
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:25am

    Who can believe anything from the Chinese? I have doubt that it would actually survive a 9.0 earthquake and I doubt that it is 5x more energy efficient. Those are too impressive to be real. My predictions? It falls in a level 5 quake and uses about the same amount of energy as any other building.

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    • ADNIL
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:59am

      I understand there are many skyscraper cities in China. All nearly empty but surrounded by slums.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:14pm

      I was just wondering who’s technology they stole to erect that building. The Chinese do NOTHING original.

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  • Barackalypse Now
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:25am

    And like everything made in China, it‘s a piece of crap that won’t last.

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    • Choctaw25
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:10am

      WELL, we don’t manufacture anything here in America anymore, because of the Democrat union heavy, eco-heavy laws that restrict companies from being productive.
      So China will continue to outdo us in every field. Barry and his Eco-terrorists are going to stop the Keystone pipeline and China is going to buy all the oil from Canada. We already have hundreds of thousands of miles of buried pipelines throughout America, but all the dumb A** Americans are swallowing the reason for not building it. Even Barry’s Union buddies want it for the AMERICAN JOBS it will create. But again, Dumb A** AMERICANS are worried about Tim Tebow is too Christian, Romney is a Mormon, Chris Christie is too heavy, Ron Paul is a whacko and on and on and on.
      Look at the date on your calendar and explain to me why the Towers have not been rebuilt. We don’t know how to build ANYTHING, China does. Checkmate

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  • pavnvet
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:24am

    We use to be that innovative.. Look how long it has taken the Freedom Tower (New World Trade Center) in New York to be built… It is shameful how we have devolved.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:09am

      Yes .. it should have been up and showing the world .. long ago that you can’t “take down” the USA but they could not decide on what to build .. too many different groups involved .. someone should have taken charge of it and gotten it done long ago.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:37am

      Anyone remember Ted Kennedy’s baby “The Big Dig”? the cost of union labor and every agency that gives a project a nod has to take a huge slice of the pie and we the taxpayers plus the evil rich are handed the bill.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:20am

    And only 3,000 workers were killed during construction…

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  • airportengineer
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:11am

    Non-Union, Hey?

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