The Chinese Hospital Projects - a question

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?

Posted: Jan 31, 2020 7:52 AM (Updated by author: Jan 31, 2020 7:53 AM)

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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.

Posted: Feb 17, 2020 3:29 AM

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.

Posted: Feb 17, 2020 3:21 PM

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.

Posted: Feb 17, 2020 8:30 PM

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