Time-lapse video: 30-storey hotel built in just 15 days

Good for them. It would take most local councils in England 360 hours just to put up the traffic lights for a minor road repair.

Good job it wasn't in the UK, we would still be paying consultants over the odds with nothing to show for the millions spent..

Unbelievably amazing...

fantastic this is why the west are falling behind.... youd be lucky to get a visit from the council in 15 days.

Just like Lego - that easy! Very impressive construction

How long would it take us to build a public toilet?
Planning and discussion - two years
Further dicking around - one year
Site preparation - one year
Decison making - three years
More dicking around - two years
Construction - one year
Grand opening - followed by closure - one hour
Find a competent builder to replace shoddy building work - one year
And thats just an estimate.

Puts the UK to shame. China is blasting past while the rest of the World watches with it's jaw open.

Most of it is prefabricated, but still a clever construction method.

get those guys to rebuild hammersmith flyover!!

I wish they could come to Edinburgh and sort oot the tram thingy :)

It would have taken the local council in the UK at least four times as long as that just to acknowledge receipt of the planning application.

The Chinese hey...gotto give it to them!

How do they get the crane off the roof at the end?

That crane driver was some guy........ we should give up now....

In Britain it would take longer than that to pick a committee to decide where the bloody thing was going to be built.

In the UK the Council Planners would have held the job up for a few months then the Health & Saftey mob would move in and hold it up for a few months then when work started one of the crackpot union bosses would have called a strike because the tea was hot enough and about 2 years later when the company who were building it had gone bust it would be completed and left empty for 10 years.

We Indians will take 15 years for a similar construction after forming two or three trade unions.

An Italian, a Scotsman, and a Chinese fellow were hired at a construction site. The foreman pointed out a huge pile of sand and told the Italian guy, "You're in charge of sweeping." To the Scotsman he said, "You're in charge of shoveling." And to the Chinese guy, "You're in charge of supplies."
He then said, "Now, I have to leave for a little while. I expect you guys to make a dent in that there pile."
The foreman went away for a of couple hours, and, when he returned, the pile of sand was untouched. He asked the Italian, "Why didn't you sweep any of it?" The Italian replied, "I no hava no broom. You said to the Chinese fella that he a wasa in a charge of supplies, but he hasa disappeared and I no coulda finda him nowhere." Then the foreman turned to the Scotsman and said, "And you, I thought I told you to shovel this pile."
The Scotsman replied, "Aye, ye did lad, boot ah couldnay get meself a shoovel! Ye left th' Chinese gadgie in chairge of supplies, boot ah couldnay fin' him either." The foreman was really angry by now and stormed off toward the pile of sand to look for the Chinese guy.

Just then, the Chinese guy jumped out from behind the pile of sand and yelled...

"SUPPLIES!!"

Maybe they can help with the A4 Hammersmith flyover!

Incredible! I also saw the work done by the Japanese after the terrible tsunami.