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Broad Sustainable Building's Broad portfolio

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Li Shui New Town, Shenyang. Total area:190,000 M2 Project type:High-rise residential building (refined decoration) Start time:August, 2011. Completion time:June, 2012 Yanghu Social House, Changsha. Total area:32,000 M2 (1 building) Project type: High-rise residential building (refined decoration).  Start time:July, 2012. Completion time:June, 2013 J57 is a 57 floors skyscraper built at a breakneck speed of 3 floors a day. Broad Sustainable Buildings Ningxia Broad Sustainable Buildings Source: Treehugger & www.bhomeglobal.com

BSBs aims to mass produce super tall towers

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Broad Sustainable Buildings 远大可建科技 Broad Sustainable Buildings increasing footprint in its bid to become the mass producer of world's tallest sustainable towers. Island Master plan Super tall master plan  Broad Sustainable Buildings master-plan for Tianjin 远大可建科技 山东远大可建科技产业园项目 山东远大可建科技产业园项目是2013年威海市级重点项目,总投资20亿元,规划占地2000亩,主要从事斜支撑钢结构可持续民用建筑生产。 Wind turbines providing electricity for BSB's Shandong facility BSB facility in Changsha 远大(湘阴) — in Xiangyin County .

China 3D prints 10 houses and BSB proposes new skyscrapers

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The WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co. (link in Chinese) has printed 10 homes in 24 hours out of recycled materials. This isn't the first attempt at 3-D printing large structures in a short amount of time. Researchers in California are making a printer that can build a house in 24 hours. In Amsterdam earlier this month, construction of a 3D-printed house began . The house is made out of plastic bricks that fit together like Lego. It's also being printed onsite. The Chinese houses, on the other hand, weren't built onsite. They were printed in pieces and then put together in Shanghai's Qingpu district. 3ders The pieces are made using recycled construction materials and industrial waste to form a concrete aggregate, Gizmodo reports . The 3-D printer used to build the houses is 500 feet long, 33 feet wide and 20 feet high. Each home costs around $4,800 to build. "We purchased parts for the printer overseas, and assembled the machine in a factory in Suzhou,...