I admit i am out of my depth here. Correct me if i am wrong.
I dont think construction needs to be made faster. I needs to be of higher quality. ( Ignore the land issues for a moment ) You could built a 60 floor Skyscraper in less then a month.
What we need is a much faster, semi / automatic way of internal renovation in each floors. Door, Glass Fitting, Pipes and Electrical Wiring etc.
And all of these needs to be of high quality finishing. Taking into account of Temperature variation, lighting. Making building with the precision level of a Smartphone.
Even today, you could see building with Windows not aligned perfectly, floor line running slight wide, floor not perfectly level. Or even Windows with Leaking Water.
May be all of these are specific to Hong Kong, where we paid the highest price per Square Feet in the world and get absolutely dismal quality of building.
My grandparents just moved into a new home, only after the deal was closed did anyone notice that the washer and dryer water tap was built directly above the washer and dryer electrical outlet.
I've never seen such a thing, it's basically the same as an outside garden hose tap, installed directly above the electrical outlet.
that's not something I'd normally know to go looking for, so I doubt I'd have seen it myself if I was with them looking at the place.
I thought the same thing. What can be done though?
They have a home warranty that's good til next year, but I doubt it covers incompetence, and I don't think they could survive another move financially or physically.
It covers shit like garage door openers (which was installed backwards, as we found out after moving in) but we'd have to pay a service fee we can't afford just yet.
The guy they sent out to help with our plumbing emergency doesn't give me high hopes in who they'll send to fix the garage door.
The guy who built this place stripped it to the frame and rebuilt it with a team of the lowest bidding crackhead contractors, from what I can tell.
That depends what your goal is. If the goal is to have the cheapest building possible, you want to automate construction as much as possible. You are correct though that the internal set-up is a huge part of the cost.
I dont think construction needs to be made faster. I needs to be of higher quality. ( Ignore the land issues for a moment ) You could built a 60 floor Skyscraper in less then a month.
What we need is a much faster, semi / automatic way of internal renovation in each floors. Door, Glass Fitting, Pipes and Electrical Wiring etc.
And all of these needs to be of high quality finishing. Taking into account of Temperature variation, lighting. Making building with the precision level of a Smartphone.
Even today, you could see building with Windows not aligned perfectly, floor line running slight wide, floor not perfectly level. Or even Windows with Leaking Water.
May be all of these are specific to Hong Kong, where we paid the highest price per Square Feet in the world and get absolutely dismal quality of building.