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The Chinese Hospital Projects - a question

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Tim PM Project Manager| NHS Yes, United Kingdom
You may have seen in the news that China is creating two large hospitals in a 2 week period for the Corona virus response, using separately-fabricated sections. You can watch a live stream of it in progress here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrIKdDCNNKY

My question- this rapid building approach is common in China, for all sorts of buildings. How do the costs compare of this versus more traditional approaches, is there any research evidence available?
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Jeremy Dacuycuy Senior Project Manager| UC Davis Health Sacramento, Ca, United States
Here’s a link to the time lapse video:
https://youtu.be/53nhErXUd9A

Having only two floors and pre-fabricated rooms helped them to complete the building extremely fast. Plus, this was their second time building this type of emergency hospital thanks to the experience from SARS. Crashing a project with 7,500 workers looks like chaotic fun.
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Steve Ratkaj Ontario, Canada
watched some vids smuggled out of China on YT yesterday. Building is a total disaster. Rain water was just pouring in everywhere. It is by no means a "hospital" but rather a place where those infected are left to die.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Jan 31, 2020 11:48 AM
Replying to Tim PM
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Yes, you are right, I think it is about 3 hours delayed, it is dark there now in the video but sunset on the video was 3-4 hours ago, when actually sunset there happened was 6-7 hours ago.

We use prefab construction here too, but in nothing like these timescales, and I very much agree with Thomas's point about earlier benefit realisation too. This really does seem a win-win approach.

However , I'm not sure I would like a near-live webcast of progress on my own projects, too many new stakeholders to manage then!
In many projects I was in there was webcast, some install by the client! Nothing you can do about those. Mostly the level of detail is not sufficient to be of concern.
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