30 Story Building Built in 360 Hours
What could you accomplish in fifteen days? In only 360 hours the Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, built a 30-story tall hotel.
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What could you accomplish in fifteen days? In only 360 hours the Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, built a 30-story tall hotel.
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When the construction boom in Ireland went bust, two Irish carpenters, Ronan Diggin and Noel O’sullivan found themselves without a job. Lucky for them, even in Ireland, nothing is s certain as death and taxes. So, they’ve started building caskets. Ronan and Noel asked around and was keen to get someone to help him start
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Maisonia Deal is a group buying program (think Groupon) for building a new home in France. By negotiating on behalf of groups of individuals planning to build a new home, Maisonia Deal promises that it can save buyers as much as 30%. The system works like this: You choose one of their builders to construct
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Rebecca Smith drew the attention of workers as she walked through a construction site 20 years ago. What is a woman doing on a building site? She owned the company, of course. She still does, reports FloridaToday.com. Smith has seen the company hit a high point of $80 million in annual revenue and a staff
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If a contractor wants to move quickly while working on a house, it helps to have a list of tricks up your sleeve. Patrick Senn has one trick, but it is so effective that he has been able to make a business out of it, reports Wicked Local Dedham. Q: So you developed Mix It
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Thomas Stewart has been in the construction business for nearly 30 years, and it was during his time in the business that inspired him to build a unique device. According to Charleston Daily Mail, he was in the middle of renovating historic homes when he was hit with inspiration. The manual effort put into doing
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Dig This, the construction theme park business I wrote about earlier today and first mentioned in August 2008 is now offering franchises. According to the company, the initial Franchise fee for starting a DIG THIS® Franchise is $75,000. In addition to your franchise fee, you can expect to invest another $100,000.00 to $200,000.00 in the
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In New York, the most glaring signs of the Great Recession are the stalled construction sites littering the city–boarded up, dusty, and desolate eyesores. The architecture mega-firm Woods Bagot may have a solution, which they’ve just unveiled: Temporary, inflatable buildings that let the developers make money while they wait for their finances to shape up.
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According to Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine’s editor-in-chief, atoms are the new bits – and because of this we are on the brink of the next industrial revolution. It’s happening in hackerspaces across the country where inventors aren’t just building prototypes, but taking their inventions directly to market, foregoing the traditional factory. The open-source movement is
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“Cardboard Mechanics” is an art installation created by four students at the Utrecht School of Art and Technology in the Netherlands. It is a clockwork machine built out of cardboard and controlled by an arduino. You can view more videos of the machine here. via Neatorama
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