These sub-par concrete structures are temporary and show signs of age after only a few years.Ĭhinese entrepreneurs have also been set a bigger problem: climate change. The construction of new cities in China has boomed over the last few decades, and China has seen a move away from the architects, technologies, and resources imported from the West, towards developments that are distinctly home-grown.īroad, originally an air conditioner manufacturer, is responding to a range of issues: local pressures to drive down costs and to work rapidly, environmental problems, and the need to innovate cost-effective yet safe alternatives to what Chinese internet users have termed “tofu-dreg” buildings. But does Broad have what it takes to capitalise on its innovative modular construction technique? Looking at this quiet provincial capital, you could be forgiven for thinking that it would be unlikely for any futuristic innovation to come from its simple suburbs but, in 2015, a little-known Chinese construction group’s super-rapid build of a development called Mini Sky City was hailed as the sign of things to come.Īs timelapse videos of the rapid-built skyscraper circled the web, Zhang Yue – the mastermind behind the project and the CEO of the construction group Broad Sustainable Building – was profiled by international media and praised for transforming China’s famously fast-paced growth into true technological and structural innovation. Are China’s new flatpack steel skyscrapers simply castles in the air? Zhang Yue and China’s Broad Group are calling them “a revolution”ĭeep in China’s interior, at the heart of the Hunan province, lies the city of Changsa.
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