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How about "Meet the Man Who Supervised A Crew That Built Assembled an Uninhabitable 30-Story Building of Preassembled Component Parts in 15 Days." No inspection

How about "Meet the Man Who Supervised A Crew That Built Assembled an Uninhabitable 30-Story Building of Preassembled Component Parts in 15 Days." No inspections were done, there are no functional water supply nor waste water systems, fire supression system, elevators, electrical distribution system, solid waste disposal system, HVAC or environmental control system of any sort... and the parking sucks.

dfc 14y ago
The title was even more of a let down after the recent story about the man who single handedly carved road through a mountain [1]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4557726 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4557726
- zaidmo 14y ago
  It's also what I expected when I read the title. I thought one man physically created the building (like the guy who carved the road in the mountain)
underwater 14y ago
Do you have a source for any on that? The article specifically mentioned elevators.
- malandrew 14y ago
  The images/schematics also show conduits for electricity and pipes for water and waste.
ChuckMcM 14y ago
Well if you looked at the schematics for the sections it is conceivable that it is habitable. There is a company in the US doing homes somewhat like this [1] where the market is for building a house in a place with a limited building cycle (think mountain cabins). I've walked through the BluHome factory and met with their engineers, they pre-fab everything, when they 'build' it on site its basically an unfolding operation. That said, the Broad building looks to have the necessary systems (perhaps not fire suppression) and it looks in the video like they build the crane into the building (which is sort of a waste of a crane) but it is "space." Now if he wanted to impress folks he could build two of those in Haiti for the folks who are still living in tents because their shacks did not survive an earthquake. [1] http://www.bluhomes.com/ http://www.bluhomes.com/
Devilboy 14y ago
Who pissed in your corn flakes?

dfc 14y ago

The title was even more of a let down after the recent story about the man who single handedly carved road through a mountain [1]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4557726 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4557726

zaidmo 14y ago
It's also what I expected when I read the title. I thought one man physically created the building (like the guy who carved the road in the mountain)

underwater 14y ago

Do you have a source for any on that? The article specifically mentioned elevators.

malandrew 14y ago
The images/schematics also show conduits for electricity and pipes for water and waste.

ChuckMcM 14y ago

Well if you looked at the schematics for the sections it is conceivable that it is habitable. There is a company in the US doing homes somewhat like this [1] where the market is for building a house in a place with a limited building cycle (think mountain cabins). I've walked through the BluHome factory and met with their engineers, they pre-fab everything, when they 'build' it on site its basically an unfolding operation. That said, the Broad building looks to have the necessary systems (perhaps not fire suppression) and it looks in the video like they build the crane into the building (which is sort of a waste of a crane) but it is "space." Now if he wanted to impress folks he could build two of those in Haiti for the folks who are still living in tents because their shacks did not survive an earthquake. [1] http://www.bluhomes.com/ http://www.bluhomes.com/

Devilboy 14y ago

Who pissed in your corn flakes?