If you want to reach the top, you have got to move fast.
This
must be the logic of a Chinese consortium, who seem confident that they
can bend time and space and build the world's tallest tower - all 838
metres of it - in just three months.
As
soon as the 220-storey 'Sky City', in Changsa, the provicincial capital
of Hunan, is complete, it will take the mantle of the world's tallest
building.
That means it will beat Dubai's current world-beater, the Burj Khalifa - which took five years to build.
Sky City: The developers in Changsa have an
ambitious plan to get the gleaming 838m tower in the skies in just 90
days - prefabricating most of the parts in order to make the
self-imposed deadline
90 days to be the biggest in the world: It's a tall order - but the company thinks it can put other skyscrapers to shame
World's tallest (for now): The Burj Khalifa, 828m tall, in Dubai
Broad Sustainable Building (BSB),
a construction company based in Hunan, believers they can do the whole
$628million construction in 90 days.
The building will also beat China’s current biggest skyscraper poster - the 632-meter Shanghai Tower.
The project has been given the go-ahead in Changsa, but the central government still need to sign off on the deal.
But
if the go-ahead comes, BSB chief executive officer Zhang Yue wants to
start building this November - and finish in January 2013.
The company has been quite quiet on the
use of the building, but earlier plans in 2010 - when the building was
going to be 'just' 666m, would be used to home 70,000 to 110,000
residents.
There is a track record for BSB, a
previous 15-storey construction was put up in six days in June 2010 -
and a 30-storey building in just 360 hours.
The key to their speed is
prefabricating large portions of the buildings in factories - so
technically most of the tower will be built before the first digger hits
the site.
This is similar
to some German construction companies such as Huf Haus, who built homes
in their factories before constructing them on-site.
The new building will have 104 elevators, one million square metres of floor space, and quadruple glazing.
The tallest building in the world may be built in Changsha, Hunan province
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