In my
50th article on The Guardian, I discuss the exciting, breathtaking and yet downright frightening surge in modular construction in China. These are
not one-off homes in
wealthy neighborhoods: these are hotels and perhaps even skyscrapers.
The benefits of modular construction are reduced waste, consumption of resources and less fuel used from transporting resources. As China undergoes massive urbanization, the results have been horrifying: environmental degradation, pollution and displaced citizens.
More creative solutions are necessary to sustain all this surging growth.
And then you have the Broad Sustainable Building’s
Tower Hotel in the city of Yueyang:
Workers assembled the entire structure in 15 days. The tower was constructed with no welding and no water use and workers only needed to bolt the modules together. No scaffolding was required, and the entire project created a negligible amount of dust. Finally the amount of waste, often the bane of large construction projects, was very low: less than 1% compared to similar projects.
Read the
full article on Guardian Sustainable Business.
Image of Tower Hotel in Yueyang courtesy Broad Corporation.
About The Author
Leon Kaye
Leon Kaye is the founder and editor of GreenGoPost.com and its advisory division,
GGP Media.
Contact him to discuss how he can work with your organization or event.
His focus is making the business case for sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
He writes for San Francisco-based
Triple Pundit,
Inhabitat and now
The Guardian, for which he writes about corporate responsibility, water, and green building. He has also written for AIA's
Architect Magazine.
Leon works out of Fresno and Silicon Valley, California, and when he has free time, he enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, weightlifting, and planning his next trip to one of the 60 countries he has visited. He has an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business and is also a proud graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) and Cal State-Fresno.
In my 50th article on The Guardian, I discuss the exciting, breathtaking and yet downright frightening surge in modular construction in China. These are not one-off homes in wealthy neighborhoods: these are hotels and perhaps even skyscrapers.
The benefits of modular construction are reduced waste, consumption of resources and less fuel used from transporting resources. As China undergoes massive urbanization, the results have been horrifying: environmental degradation, pollution and displaced citizens. More creative solutions are necessary to sustain all this surging growth.
And then you have the Broad Sustainable Building’s Tower Hotel in the city of Yueyang:
