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30-storey mega hotel built is 15 days
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostIbis hotels?
They are pre manufactured to the design standard. This reduces building errors and increases the corporate "look". Makes em quick to build too.
Have you never noticed how quickly hotels seem to go up compared to other buildings.Just saying like.
where there's chaos, there's cash !
I could agree with you, but then we would both be wrong!
Lowering the tone since 1963Comment
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Originally posted by Arturo Bassick View PostProbably, and travel lodge and even post house if memory serves.
They are pre manufactured to the design standard. This reduces building errors and increases the corporate "look". Makes em quick to build too.
Have you never noticed how quickly hotels seem to go up compared to other buildings.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Duke of Edinburgh Twitter AccountThose slitty eyed little fellows are like ants!Comment
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Originally posted by Churchill View Post
Ants have relatively large compound eyes, not little slits.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by PAH View PostNice. I wonder how close we are to seeing modular housing where you don't move into a new house but take it with you and just pay for the plot which already has the required facilities plumbed in.
Sounds like a good bet for those who invested in land. Cough."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by PAH View PostThat's on the right lines. As most rooms are square or rectangle it would be easy to have the modules built solely of glass walls with almost invisible hinged glass doors mid wall.
Use triple glazing for insulation.
Outside layer can be heat reflective for summer.
Middle layer made from that glass that defaults to frosted but turns clear when an electric current is applied.
The inside layer could be a transparent video wall.
Power outlets built into the corners so they hook up when modules joined.
Use vacuum suction cups for hooking stuff to the walls.
I'd rather live in something like that than a brick house.
One for the next series of Dragons Den.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostYevgeny Zamyatin envisaged something similar in his dystopian novel We, which influenced George Orwell in the writing of 1984.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostThanks! Looks like something worth reading.
I've got the Penguin 20th Century Classics translation. I see there's a more recent translation available on Amazon; I may get that one tooComment
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