Monday, February 03, 2020

China and speed building

My first reaction when seeing, merely days ago, a field full of excavators preparing the grounds for a new Wuhan hospital was that it looked like a con: there were so many and they didn't look particularly well organised.   They seemed as if they were just pretending to be busy.  And besides - were they even the right bit of gear with which to be preparing the ground?  

But reporting from the BBC seems to indicate that the building has gone up in 6 days.  I didn't even think the concrete would be set solidly enough in that time.  Apparently, a similar "instant hospital" project was done in Beijing in 2003, taking 7 days.  Slackers.

It's hard to tell, but from some photos at the last link it looks like it might be a modular style construction.  Is that the only way it could be done?  Modular buildings can be assembled very quickly. 

Of course, getting a building up is one thing - having it properly plumbed and wired and safely finished is another.

I would like to see a walk through of the place in another couple of weeks time, just to see how it looks on the inside. 

2 comments:

GMB said...

The key is that they haven't gone through the last 40 years of mainstream bullshitartistry where it is claimed that you don't need to BUILD THINGS or PRODUCE STUFF.

This fucking flimsy Aussie economics where it was thought that we were all about tertiary industry, but instead we produced bullshit jobs and little else.

The other thing is that they don't have to worry about the finance cartel, with their band of lawyers and lobbyists seeing to it that you cannot build anything without the bankers taking all the value off the table.

China is social credit. So they can easily finance all this stuff and if the debt gets too high they will be in a position to cancel debt. We are Rothschild parasite credit. China is social credit.

GMB said...

Yes its the same with anything. The more production you can hive off to a dozen factories, the easier it is to build something. If you try and do all the construction on-site its a nightmare of delays. Because one task cannot be started until another has been completed.

If you take usury off the table onsite construction can work. But you have to be casual and patient about it. If you want things in a hurry you've got to delegate as much as possible to a bunch of factories.