The Construction of this "90 Days Building Broad" is incredible 2,749ft (838m) as it still awaiting final approval from the Chinese
government, but it is hoping the project will get off the ground towards the
end of December and be completed before April 2013. The most impressive thing
about Sky City is that its designers, Chinese-based Broad Group, plan to start
and finish it in just 90 days. This astonishing pace, which will see five
storeys go up a day, is down to the revolutionary method of prefabricated
building where blocks are built off site and slotted together to save time. Despite
concerns about its structural rigidity, Broad Group says the half-mile high
building will be able to withstand a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. The idea isn't
pie in the sky thinking either, with Broad making headlines last year when they
built a 30-storey building in 15 days.
Massive building as an artist's impression of the planned "220-storey Sky City" building planned for Changsha, south-east China. The mammoth building is
planned to be built in only three months The half-mile high superstructure will
be 32ft taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai - the current tallest building -
and is expected to cost almost half as much. It will dwarf the Shard in London, "standing more than 530m" above the western Europe's tallest building and, when
completed, will mean nine of the 10 tallest skyscrapers in the world are in
Asia. A construction company yesterday revealed plans to build the world's
tallest skyscraper - in just three months.Sky City in Changsha,
south-east China, will be a 220-storey structure standing at an incredible 2,749ft
(838m). It will house 17,400 people and also boast hotels, hospitals, schools
and office space with occupants using 104 high-speed lifts to get around.
China-based Broad, which started out making air-conditioning
systems in the Eighties, will employ 3,000 workers for the project.Spread over
1million square metres and be made up of 200,000 tonnes of steel, Sky City will
be a mini town when completed. It will have more than 5,000 residential
properties playing home to 17,400 residents as well as a hotel for 1,000, a
hospital, five schools and office space with overall capacity standing at
31,000. Sky City is expected to cost around £400 million, significantly less
than the £940 million Burj Khalifa which took more than five-years to build. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE - 163 floors / 2,717ft Makkah
Royal Clock Tower Hotel, Mecca, Saudi Arabia - 120 floors 1,971ft Taipei
101, Taipei, Taiwan - 101 floors / 1,670ft Shanghai
World Financial Centre, Shanghai, China - 101 floors / 1,614ft International
Commerce Centre, Hong Kong - 118 floors / 1,588ft
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