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Changsha’s Broad Group Builds 57-Storey Tower in Just 19 Days

2015/03/12 by Michael Cole 1 Comment

Mini Sky City

The 57-storey tower is said to have been completed in 19 days.

When the world last heard of Hunan-based Broad Group, the construction firm was still struggling to win approval to turn a watermelon patch into a 220-storey vertical city.

Sky City 11

Now the air conditioning maker turned-modular building group has bounced back from its frustrated attempt to build the 838-metre high Sky City project, to create the 57-storey “Mini Sky City.” And the company says they built the 186,000 square metre (2 million square foot) tower in just 19 days.

Broad Builds Office Tower in Backyard

After local officials in Changsha decided that the Sky City project lacked the necessary approvals (and after the plan to build the world’s tallest building in a Chinese second-tier city received widespread ridicule), Broad Group boss Zhang Yue apparently decided to prove the virtues of his company’s modular building system by tackling something more manageable.

Broad building materials

Although modest compared to the company’s earlier plans, Mini Sky City still was built to provide 800 apartments and office space sufficient to accommodate 4,000 workers, according to the company. The structure was originally planned to reach 97 stories, but was scaled back to meet with local air traffic requirements, Broad says.

The new tower was built next to Broad’s factory in Changsha at what the company says was a construction cycle of three floors per day. The company did not indicate what types of tenants might be most suitable for occupying a 186,000 square metre facility on the outskirts of Changsha.

Building a More Sustainable High Rise

In addition to speedier construction, Broad is also determined to make its new building easier on the environment. According to the engineering firm, its prefabricated construction technique helped it cut back truck deliveries on the project by 15,000 trips and reduces construction dust.

Mini Sky City Interior

No word on if the golf carts are pre-fab too

Before building Mini Sky City, Broad had already seized headlines by completing a 30-storey hotel project in only 15 days and a three-storey building in only nine days.

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Filed Under: Design and Construction Tagged With: Broad Group, Changsha, crebrief, highlight, Mini Sky City, modular building, Sky City

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