@@paulsawczyc5019 And all the local crooked politicians and their buddies line their pockets with the cash. Detroit is a cesspool just like what was shown in Robocop.
Great mixed use building. Detroit is looking like it will revitalize into one of the most livable cities in the US in the coming decades. Especially as water shortages in the south west force migrations to the more water rich areas of the country.
That is the coolest thing since “TTG highrise” (RU-vid search it) the Russian mission video from the 1970’s. I learned about this in 2014 but the company I worked for are followers instead of leaders in the industry and were to afraid to try something new. Too bad for them, good for you!!! Best of luck to you all!!! Jim
It’s great to hear all the positive comments from the skilled, UNION, construction trades actually working on the project. The construction industry has to do something to make up for the shortage of people who want to work in construction. Modern life is only possible because of skilled craftsmen who are out there actually building and maintaining the structures needed for everyone else to do their jobs.
Ship Mexican to Detroit. It’s just blacks don’t work all they wanna do it sports and entertainment. How do u starve a black man hide his ebt card in his work boot
I think it's the maintaining that scares people off - building something that works is vastly different from being repeatedly called back to repair-respond to 'behavior' and watching points getting shaved off of good work. Really good work, out of the weather and fast!
That is brilliant! I would not have thought of component building an entire floor, but why not? The savings (!!!) makes it worth a look. Export this a lot!
Detroit back in the spotlight again for something positive...and with the Lions about to win the Super Bowl, Detroit is reinventing itself!. in a few years Detroit is going to be how it was in the 80s...full of life and prosperity!
@@seanwhatshisname1831they take the bottom two sections apart then slide the elevator out for repair then back in. Then slide the building back in place like a, “ Lego “! 🫤😐
This is so much safer than being so far up in the air. I imagine you could get more work done if you're not fearing for your life every second of the day...
I watched an Extreme Engineering of Sky City 1000 in 2013 when I was 11 years old. There was a building that was being built in Japan using robots and this building was built in the 1990s through barcode scanning on of the concrete sections without a human worker in sight. It was the Big Canopy. Also top down construction is nothing new a skyscraper that was built in the 1960s in Madrid was built using that style of technique.
The top down building with 'train cars' of parts could also do building on the moon. The robots could get started as soon as in position. An Orion heat shield 'pop out' system could rapidly deploy a contained atmosphere in space.
They said this is a 16 story building, I think this type of construction would be limited by the height of the building. I've worked construction on buildings as high as 55 and 60 stories. I don't believe this type of construction would work there because of the amount of weight that would be at the top of the building. You don't want top heavy construction before the base is there for support.
That could be dealt with by tapering the pillars. Thicker at bottom and thinner up top. Lessening the square footage and structure the higgher you go and growing the lower you go. It could still be implemented in higher construction but would have to change design a bit more.. even along the line of suspension bridge maybe?, Attached at the top coming down or like a prism/diamond from top and from bottom
@@J1WE but lessoning the square footage of higher floors don't seem like it would be worth using this system. Those higher floors and penthouse units are where they make a substantial amount of their money back.
Not true! Check out the Rainier Building in Seattle for example. It’s skinny at the bottom. One of the most earthquake resistant buildings in the city.
How do you build the core ?still got to lay the foundation, pour day be more difficult to me it's more dangerous taking work from the concrete carpenters from what I see.
When it comes to what drives up the cost of most housing in cities, which is a lack of housing due to how expensive it is to build new developments (supply/demand), in theory a system like this, which is supposed to make construction more efficient and potentially cheaper (and therefore more desirable for developers), over time could lower the cost for "consumers." Will that actually be the case? who knows, but at least it's a promising idea.
This METHOD may or may not, but THIS BUILDING doesn't need to. Michigan doesn't get the natural disasters that so many other parts of the country experience.
Seams reasonable, so each floor is not taking the weight of all floors above it. Transferring all load to the two rigid pillars attached to a deep solid foundation.
"deficit of labor in the workforce" You know what solves this? Offering more money for the job! IF an extra buck or two does not solve the problem, then increase it further. This was understood back in the 70s, and guess what, it worked. People will move across the nation if you offer a good paying job!
Nice innovation on the building, but Detroit is 100+ years behind on a subway and 35 years behind on a skytrain system. Hope this new structure doesn't get turned into another parking deck.
I know guys working on that site there's tons of issues and have been since they started it was supposed to be done way sooner but seeing it's the first one done in north America it's like the first pancake
it sure looks like about 60% of the floor space is used by those 2 gigantic elevator shafts. and why are you comparing it to some 60 story sky craper. this thing is maybe 15?
The Chinese can build a 20-story building in a week, all the walls are pre-fab brick and concrete, and they build it like it's a meccano set A bland concrete block *should* be easy to build
For those complaining about "the windows not lining up"... Look at pictures of architecture in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, one of the great cities in the world for modern architecture. Asymmetrical windows are common.
Americans don't know that other countries have modern architecture . They think Africans live in huts, Asians live in sheds and they think Europeans live in old cathedral looking buildings
Just to clarify something. This is far from innovation, there is a building finished in 1987 - KNSB building in Sofia, Bulgaria, built in same technique. I also guess KNSB building is not the first one built in this way
This is not very new it's been done a long time ago. The trouble is you have to fasten them together so you're dependent on you're Fasteners not to fail.
