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January 10, 2012
200-Storey Prefab For 100,000 People Can Be Built in 2 Months
Is This for Real?
TreeHugger
by Lloyd Alter
Over the years I have been shown a few wild proposals for giant prefabs and new building systems, and most of the time I have been pretty dubious. There have always been a couple of fundamental problems that got in the way, particularly with modular schemes where entire units are supposed to be plugged into frames.
Recently I questioned a big prefab project at the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, thinking it was too much, too fast, and too cheap considering it was a technology that had never been used to build so high.
But these projects don't come close to what Broad Sustainable Buildings is planning: A 200-storey vertical city that will house 100,000 people. While it isn't scheduled for construction yet, the company appears to be pitching it around the world.
NoLandGrab: If it sounds too good to be true... Bruce Ratner might steal all your senior employees!
Posted by eric at January 10, 2012 10:19 AM