这是在Business Inside今天看到的视频，中国湖南长沙，新方舟宾馆，这个抗震九级十五层的楼房只用了不到六天就建好了了。视频的左下角有时间，大楼的建立大概是46个小时，装修等大约是90小时，一共不到六天，实在是非常地惊人！



把一位美国人的回言转抄在这里
JoeB on Nov 11, 6:10 PM said:
Agree that 6 days is ridiculously fast - and it appears that the Chinese often cut costs. But contrast their speed with the protracted boondoggle of the eastern span project for the Bay Bridge here in San Francsico. This project just replaces the cantilevered eastern approach to the main Bay Bridge. The cost is approaching $7 billion - about $6B over budget - and when complete in 2012 or 2013, it will have taken over 10 years of active construction time and over 20 years of total time (dating back to the Loma Prieta quake).

Compare this with what the French did with the Millau Viaduct bridge - a far more impressive structure (tallest bridge in the world) at 1/10 the cost and less than 1/2 the time. Japan, Norway, Dubai, etc - many countries now seem to get major projects done a lot faster and cheaper than we do. Maybe the problem is just here in CA (or maybe not - eg, see the Big Dig and other boondoggles). What really telling is that we built the entire Bay Bridge back in the Depression in just a few years at a tiny fraction of the cost in inflation-adjusted dollars of the East Span project - and we did the Golden Gate Bridge at the very same time. No doubt about who led the world back then.