{"id":50593,"date":"2012-06-14T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=50593"},"modified":"2012-06-17T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T08:00:43","slug":"ambition-has-never-scaled-such-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=50593","title":{"rendered":"Ambition Has Never Scaled Such Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Eddie Wrenn \u2013 Daily Mail.co.uk June 12, 2012<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sky-City.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-50595\" title=\"Artist's conception of Sky City. Click to enlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sky-City-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sky-City-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Sky-City.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you want to reach the top, you have got to move fast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This must be the logic of a Chinese consortium, who seem confident that they can bend time and space and build the world&#8217;s tallest tower &#8211; all 838 metres of it &#8211; in just three months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As soon as the 220-storey &#8216;Sky City&#8217;, in Changsa, the provicincial capital of Hunan, is complete, it will take the mantle of the world&#8217;s tallest building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That means it will beat Dubai&#8217;s current world-beater, the Burj Khalifa &#8211; which took five years to build.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Broad Sustainable Building (BSB), a construction company based in Hunan, believers they can do the whole $628million construction in 90 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The building will also beat China\u2019s current biggest skyscraper poster &#8211; the 632-meter Shanghai Tower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The project has been given the go-ahead in Changsa, but the central government still need to sign off on the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But if the go-ahead comes, BSB chief executive officer Zhang Yue wants to start building this November &#8211; and finish in January 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The company has been quite quiet on the use of the building, but earlier plans in 2010 &#8211; when the building was going to be &#8216;just&#8217; 666m, would be used to home 70,000 to 110,000 residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is a track record for BSB, a previous 15-storey construction was put up in six days in June 2010 &#8211; and a 30-storey building in just 360 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The key to their speed is prefabricating large portions of the buildings in factories &#8211; so technically most of the tower will be built before the first digger hits the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is similar to some German construction companies such as Huf Haus, who built homes in their factories before constructing them on-site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The new building will have 104 elevators, one million square metres of floor space, and quadruple glazing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2158205\/Sky-City-Changsa-China-plans-build-worlds-tallest-tower.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China plans to build the world&#8217;s tallest tower &#8211; and complete it in just THREE MONTHS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50764,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50593\/revisions\/50764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}