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China's Sky City developer Zhang Yue erects world's tallest prefab tower in 19 days

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"A developer in the southeastern Chinese province of Hunan has built a 57 storey skyscraper in just 19 days using its proprietary prefabrication technique.
The 2 million square foot tower built by Broad Group, which is owned by Chinese air conditioning magnate Zhang Yue, contains 800 apartments and enough office space for 4,000 workers."
This is proof-of-concept for the delayed 200 story Sky City planned for over a year, to be built in 8 months, should it gets all permits. Sustainable factory modular construction makes such ultra-fast construction feasible and cheaper.

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