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发表于 2012-10-2 11:43:08
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本帖最后由 长沙郡 于 2012-10-2 11:45 编辑
World's tallest skyscraper to be built like Meccano in seven months
A Chinese tycoon is planning to revolutionise the way skyscrapers are built by bolting together the world's tallest building from factory-made parts in just seven months.
Zhang Yue, 52, says his 220-storey, 2,750ft-tall building in Changsha, which he has called "Sky City", will be the world's first standardised, factory-built skyscraper: bringing China's mass manufacturing skills to our cities.
Nor does Mr Zhang intend to stop at 2,750ft, a height which narrowly eclipses the Burj al Kalifa in Dubai. In his office in the inland province of Hunan are plans for a tower some 1.2 miles high.
Mr Zhang, who made his fortune first from making boilers and then from selling industrial air-conditioning units for office buildings, airports and public spaces, turned his attention to construction in the wake of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008.
His engineers designed steel beams that could be mass-produced in factories and then rapidly slotted together like Meccano, and which would also be earthquake resistant.
The modular sections, complete with ducts for plumbing and electricity, are built at two factories and then shipped to the building site. Theoretically, they can be combined in any scale.
"Traditional construction is chaotic," he told Wired magazine in a recent interview. "We took construction and moved it into the factory. It is a structural revolution".
Mr Zhang has already built 16 structures in China and one in Cancun, Mexico. For the Shanghai Expo in 2008, he constructed a boxy grey six-floor pavilion in 24 hours. Last year, he built a 30-floor, 328ft-tall hotel by the side of Hunan's Xiang river in 360 hours.
At Broad Town, his company headquarters, there is a replica of Versailles and a 130ft-tall replica of an Egyptian pyramid. He demands that all of his 2,000 or so employees are able to run seven-and-a-half miles over a two-day period.
Mr Zhang said his buildings produce only one per cent of the waste of traditional construction, use no water to build, have consistent quality, and cost around 30 per cent less.
His new skyscraper will house more than 30,000 people, and include a shopping centre and hotels. In a bid to prove that it is not simply a publicity stunt, Mr Zhang has also hired some of the engineers who built the Burj al Kalifa to consult.
The foundation is scheduled to be laid in November and if everything goes well, the building will be complete in March 2013. |
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