Building a new hotel in SIX DAYS

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Have you heard of this? Apparently, some company in China claims to have built an entire 15-STORY hotel in only SIX DAYS. They worked around-the-clock on this project, and according to the video I watched, which I will post a link to at the end of the discussion, they managed to complete the entire outside of the structure in six days. However, I am pretty sure they did NOT finish the interior of the building in this length of time, and from the video, you cannot tell the inside was done as well. I am not a contractor, but I do have some construction experience, and I can tell you that unless they had EVERYTHING on site ready to go, and unless they had enough people on site to work 24-hours per day, and unless everything went together without any problems, and unless they had they had the foundations for this building in place before building on the rest of the structure began, there is NO way they did an entire 15-story hotel in 6 days. Also, even if they DID have all this stuff come together at one time just like it was supposed to, I still say that this is a hoax. I would have had to be there from start to finish on this project to personally witness this happening in order to believe it, and even then, I would question the quality of the work, and the structural soundness of the building. Sheet rock is easy to hang, but it has to be taped, and sheet-rock "mud" has to be applied. This "mud" can take up to 24 hours to dry, and you have to allow it to dry before you can do any kind of painting or texturing, or even before you can install trim to it. I can only imagine how long it would take to hang, tape, and mud sheet rock in a 15-story hotel. Also, just installing the plumbing and electrical wiring on a project this size would have to take at least a few days, even with SEVERAL people working on it. That does not include installing all of the toilets, sinks, showers, electrical outlets, light fixtures, light switches, phone lines, internet and cable lines, and covers for all of the electrical outlets and light switches, which would take at least a few MORE days. Then you have to take into consideration the fact that carpet, tile, or other floor coverings have to be installed, all of which can be very meticulous, time-consuming work, even for professionals. I do not have a whole lot of construction experience, and most of what little experience I have is interior construction such as the sheet rock, electrical, painting, and water/bathroom stuff I talked about in the paragraph above. I really don't have enough knowledge of actually framing and "drying in" a structure to even get it to the point that you can start the interior construction to even try to guess how long it would take to erect a 15-story hotel, but I am pretty sure that it would take a pretty good while, so you can see why I find it hard to believe that these people did this entire hotel in SIX DAYS. Just painting a structure of this size, and painting the door frames and trim, would take longer than six days... Here is the link to the video I mentioned... NOT A REFERRAL LINK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0DSihggio&feature=player_embedded Tell me what you think...