CITYBUILDER Brief: NC Parking Bill Heads to Stein
NC's parking bill awaits Gov. Stein's signature. Chinese company builds a high-rise in 5 days. Enjoy your weekend!
On the (inter)National Radar:
China Builds 26-Story Apartment Building in 5 Days
Manufactured marvel: Five days. That’s how long it took 100 workers in China to construct a 26-story residential tower. But if that sounds crazy, wait for this part: The workers didn’t mix any concrete, weld a single beam, or saw a single board. As Fix the News reports:
The modules arrived on flatbeds, 12m x3m x2.4m each, the exact footprint of a 40-foot shipping container — pre-wired, pre-piped, pre-furnished, and locked together like the world’s tallest piece of IKEA furniture.
High-speed housing: By assembling 208 move-in ready apartments in five days, Broad Sustainable Building has proven just how rapidly manufactured housing can be deployed. With the ROAD to Housing Act set to finally unleash the full potential of manufactured housing in the United States, it’s time to see if American companies can rival their Chinese counterparts in constructing housing with speed on a large scale.
