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How long do you think it can take to finish building a 10-storey high-rise apartment? A month, months or years? Well, it depends on several factors but primarily funding, maybe.
However, believe it or not, a Chinese company called the Broad Group recently completed a 10-storey residential high rise in just 28 hours and 45 minutes. Yes, you read it well – a 10-storey apartment was completely built in just over a day. One of the most appealing things about this system is that each building module has the same dimensions as a shipping container when folded, making it easy to transport it pretty much anywhere in the world using existing shipping methods.
For the building, the company’s pre-manufactured components, including the walls, kitchen, bath, and floors, were folded out to a span of 39.3 feet by 15.75 feet by 9 feet high and were then fit into a standard shipping container to be transported to the construction site where it was assembled. Apart from being able to withstand earthquakes that measure 9.0 on the Richter Scale, the company also says the building components carry a longer life span and recyclability, adding that the panels can last thousands of years and the building itself can be “disestablished” and moved or taken somewhere else.
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