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15 day build!
Rod Ends - 12/1/12 at 07:45 PM

15 day build!


Ninehigh - 12/1/12 at 08:05 PM

If that happened over here I'd have been out of a job before I started!


snakebelly - 12/1/12 at 08:13 PM

Very impressive.......but 15 days? Guess that doesn't include the year or two for prefab....


Ninehigh - 12/1/12 at 08:15 PM

Quite possibly, looks like the prefab was done in a factory by lots of people. Does look like it doesn't include laying a foundation and finishing off the inside (so it's ready to open) though


loggyboy - 12/1/12 at 08:33 PM

I bet it it also helps when your payig people to work 24 hours at a very low rate.
I wonder how many injurys their were while the contractor/government were showing off how fast they can go.


gazza285 - 12/1/12 at 08:55 PM

Not bad, the work is in the prefab sections as said.

We used to put up prison blocks up from foundation level to ready to live in in 12 weeks, two holding wings, central control area, kitchens etc. Only two floors though, and 50 hour weeks.

We also erected the steelwork for the Westminster Park Plaza hotel, started in Oct 2007, finished in July 2009. One piece of steelwork a day because of the transport regulations.


ReMan - 12/1/12 at 09:23 PM

15 weeks/15months, still impressive and clever


Simon - 12/1/12 at 09:41 PM

quote:
Originally posted by gazza285
. One piece of steelwork a day because of the transport regulations.


It's a 100 yards from the river, couldn't it have been transported on that

ATB

Simon


scootz - 12/1/12 at 09:43 PM

It was made in China... it'll fall apart in no time at all!


whitestu - 12/1/12 at 10:18 PM

Where's the bamboo scaffold?


matt_gsxr - 12/1/12 at 11:05 PM

Building over there isn't that different to builders here.
I bet they have to phone loads of times to get that crane taken off the roof!


RK - 12/1/12 at 11:19 PM

That is a very scary website. The things being said are right from the 19th century. And if you don't agree, they'll just shoot you.


big_l - 12/1/12 at 11:42 PM

The difference being there will be bolts loose and missing all of the place !!

The first earthquake and it coming down like it was built frI'm matchsticks lol.

You can't replace British quality


gazza285 - 13/1/12 at 06:47 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Simon
quote:
Originally posted by gazza285
. One piece of steelwork a day because of the transport regulations.


It's a 100 yards from the river, couldn't it have been transported on that

ATB

Simon



Put the crane on the bridge? Not sure you can do that on a red route.