This comes up from folks outside the US anytime there's a construction video like this. They're called 5-over-1s and they are incredibly common in the US. Trees are plentifu, very low carbon, and create a safe building for earthquakes / fires when paired with sprinklers like we require. Concrete is expensive, has incredibly high carbon emisions, and comes with moisture penetration issues in wet climates like where this is built. Wood is a perfectly reasonble material to use. If other countries had low cost lumber they'd be using it as well.
How can you make something that big out of sticks... Absolutely ridiculous. Insulation is definitely horrendous too, probably worse than some 0th century mud house.
Aah man i am crying on seieng this. I bought a house this month, my first. Sellers dint tell me. But there is going to be a similar 4 storey 150 condo housing coming up diagonally opposite my house. I am stuck. Feel like life is finished. Do you know is the noise pollution manageable.
in china they make these out of concrete. here they make it out of plywood so developers can skimp costs. these things are fire hazards and they call them "luxury apartments"
Couple of things to make you feel warm and fuzzy.. Inspection are NOT made by the structural engineers (Inspections are made by a 3rd party/Lab which consists of a kid or someone making about $12hr) That info is passed onto the engineer who is rarely on the jobsite. City inspectors rarely, if ever inspect anything except fire-caulking at frame stage. They depend on the Labs, (as explained above) to do the inspections. The general contractor or GC will cover the interior of the units or any wood products when they get saturated and mold caused by the rain. Time is of the essence and they must push forward and they will cover mold covered floors and wall studs to keep the job moving as they get bonus based on each unit based on time and budget. The design team will walk each unit and comprise a "punch list" but will typically not re-walk these items. This is left up to have GC who has 350 units+ he is trying to close on to get bonus. The owner of the project has no vested long term interest in the project. His goal is to close, get certificate of occupancies and sell the property as quickly as possible. Lastly, There are porto-potties supplied by the GC. These are all located on ground level. When workers are deep inside the complex or too far away, they will urinate and deficate in the tubs, (if available) or in closets of units all throughout the property. Hope you enjoyed!! Enjoy your new apartment complex!!
Thanks, I am going to have something similar starting soon not far from me. I will see the corner of the building. What parts were the noisiest? I think there is only going to be 1 underground level, so less digging.
There was some piledriving, and arguably it was the noisiest days... but the hammering for 2nd-floor-and-up structures was noisy enough to wake me up every day too.
@@prcsprcs Thanks. I see they were drilling 0:15 and looked like that was for the piles. And not that many it seems. Yeah, I wonder about the nail guns. That was about half way through. Also wondering about the concrete truck as they probably going to be or go in front of my 2nd level window about 50ft away. They can't even shut the motor off as they have keep the concrete moving.
Ah yep, the concrete trucks were noisy. With that said, my brain is better at filtering out continuous low-frequency sound than constant impact ones, so the trucks were _slightly_ less bothering to me.
@@prcsprcs Looking to take a vacation at some point, but not sure when and travel these days are very sketchy. They haven't started on the building yet.
I live in a terrace house (row) where the walls are made entirely from brick, yet sometimes I still can hear my neighbors. How can it be acceptable to build an apartment building like this?
@@BargSlarg Same here. Our units are separated by 2 walls with a 1" air gap, stuffed with thick fiberglass insulation, and double drywall on both sides. I don't hear anything, and they have 3 young kids running around/screaming.
Well, in all I'm pretty satisfied with this digital piano and would recommend it. As far as the mechanical/physical feeling is concerned, the keys' weight and touch-iness is comparable to the upright piano my parents have (a 40-year old Yamaha U1, regularly tuned and maintained, which I've been most used to since I was learning to play the piano), and this digital piano does keep up its promise to deliver delicate volume changes in response to how hard you press the keys. Additionally, the keys are heavy enough that I can train with Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist on it. However, compared to real pianos, digital pianos don't give as much tonal quality difference in whether you press the keys hard or not, honestly, and this Yamaha piano is no exception. I got this in 2014. I surveyed and tried a lot of other similarly priced, or cheaper, pianos from Yamaha and from other makers such as Casio, Kawai and Roland. In the end I bought this because my repertoire mostly consists of Bach and Mozart, and I don't use the sustain pedal as long as the composer says don't. Many other pianos sound great and feel 'magical' to play with pieces that require constant pedaling, but they tend to perform mediocre without pedaling, which fails to meet my need --- and the CLP545 is quite superb in this regard.
prcsprcs Hmm. The CLP 545 is bad at pedaling? I love this design, but I think I will pick the Roland HP 603 , its a newer Roland model and the new CLP pianos will be released maybe this year or next year! This model right now it's a bit outdated...
Yamaha's design is the best! specially in the CLP/ARIUS models(I dont like the CVP desing, I prefer traditional pianos). I cant wait until the newer CLP pianos hit the market.
