Chinese workers build 15-story hotel in just six days

[Old Fart]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upsho...workers-build-15-story-hotel-in-just-six-days

As the United States and China battle over the finer points of currency manipulation at the G-20 summit, American negotiators may want to take note of this startling testimonial to the productivity of Chinese workers: A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha has completed a 15-story hotel in just six days. If nothing else, this remarkable achievement will stoke further complaints from American economic pundits that China's economy is far more accomplished than ours in tending to such basics as construction.



Not sure I'd want to be in it the first earthquake that comes to town......



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[grizzly97]

Now that's just impresive as hell! I couldn't imagine the stress they were under to get it done that quick!

 

[Old Fart]

The video is well worth watching.
It said there were zero work related injuries.

 

[taymoor]

Holy $**t

 

[Mr10mm]

We need to hire them to do the I-40 cross town bridge!!!

 

[5MinuteMajor]

Not sure I'd want to be in it the first earthquake that comes to town......

It's built to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake, why not? That's a better rating than your own home has, I'll wager.

That being said, I wouldn't want to be in it during an earthquake either...Or any building for that matter.

 

[jbarnett]

We need to hire them to do the I-40 cross town bridge!!!

This..

 

[dx3]

And I thought replacing the roof of a house in 1 day was impressive!

Jonny

 

[WRH1234]

are those union workers?

 

[NikatKimber]

No kidding!

The construction on the roads here is plain ridiculous. Whoever is in charge of this whole mess is a certifiable moron.

They put the little "H"s in the concrete, ran the grinder over to resurface the road. Then went back and started cutting sections out again, refilling, only to run the grinder over them a second time. Wait what?!?!?

Not only that, but they have all four directions into and out of that intersection down to one lane. Can they not work on one side of the road, get it done, then move on?