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Broad Sustainable Building, a construction company in China, has announced plans to build the world’s tallest building…in just 90 days. When finished, it will be 220 stories high, 10 meters taller than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.
Continue reading… “Chinese construction company to build world’s tallest building in 90 days”
A huge 3D printer called D-Shape can print entire buildings out of sand.
World Future Society blogger Thomas Frey says the first “printed homes” will be coming soon.
Continue reading… “First ‘printed homes’ coming soon”
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Broad Group, a Chinese construction company, is known for putting up buildings with record speed. How fast? According to Gizmodo, the company owned by Xian Min Zhang, most recently, constructed a 30 story, 183,000-square-foot hotel in 15 days — 360 hours.
Continue reading… “Amazing time-lapse video of a 30 story hotel built in 15 days in China”
Up, up and away with a quadrotor.
A clever idea, first reported by Gareth a couple years ago: Architects are trying to figure out how touse quadrotors to haul and place individual bricks. The above link is in French; here’s a Google translation…
Continue reading… “Using Quadrotors to assemble a building”
Liang Wengen, founder of Sany Group is China’s richest man with a fortune of 70 billion yuan ($11 billion), according to the Hurun Rich List 2011.
Continue reading… “China’s billionaires group continues to grow rapidly”
Las Vegas has seen its share of heavy construction equipment as it bulldozed its way through one giant casino project after another. But with the recession having gutted the construction industry, excavators and bulldozers near the Strip are being put to use as toys for thrill-seeking visitors. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Life-sized sandbox for thrill-seeking adults in Las Vegas”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Consider the following scenario. Over the next few years, several major cities in the U.S. will begin to impose a ban on all new residential and commercial construction. With populations declining in numerous metro areas, they will worry openly about becoming the next Detroit with abandoned neighborhoods signaling a rapid decline in property values.
Continue reading… “Turmoil Ahead for Housing”
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