Work on tallest tower stopped over legalities
By Leeann Li |
July 26, 2013, Friday
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WORK on a Chinese skyscraper, aiming to be the world's tallest building, has been halted only few days after its groundbreaking ceremony.
"Relevant authorities" have told the company behind it to stop work immediately on the Sky City Tower project in Changsha, capital city of the central province of Hunan, "because it did not complete the required procedures for seeking approval to start construction," Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported yesterday.
Planned at 838 meters, the tower would have surpassed the world's current tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, by 10 meters.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the project was done on the weekend, the Changsha-based construction company Broad Sustainable Building Co Ltd said earlier this week.
The company claimed it would have the Sky City Tower standing in seven months and at a cost of 9 billion yuan (US$1.47 billion), according to the National Business Daily.
The schedule was 120 days of prefabrication before the start of on-site work. Some 90 percent of the building will be assembled in workshops. The skyscraper was to have its roof structure capped in April next year.
Experts had voiced fears about the speed of the project. The 828-meter Burj Khalifa took five years to build.
Neither the contractor, state-owned China Construction Fifth Engineering Division Corp Ltd, nor officials from Wangcheng District, where the building was located, were willing to talk about the reasons for halting the project.
Data shows that 10 out of the 20 tallest buildings in the world are in China. It will rise to 13 by next year.
Many regional officials imagine skyscrapers to be a sign of urban wealth and their political career depended on building as many as possible, said Xu Zongwei of the Architectural Society of China.
"Relevant authorities" have told the company behind it to stop work immediately on the Sky City Tower project in Changsha, capital city of the central province of Hunan, "because it did not complete the required procedures for seeking approval to start construction," Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported yesterday.
Planned at 838 meters, the tower would have surpassed the world's current tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, by 10 meters.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the project was done on the weekend, the Changsha-based construction company Broad Sustainable Building Co Ltd said earlier this week.
The company claimed it would have the Sky City Tower standing in seven months and at a cost of 9 billion yuan (US$1.47 billion), according to the National Business Daily.
The schedule was 120 days of prefabrication before the start of on-site work. Some 90 percent of the building will be assembled in workshops. The skyscraper was to have its roof structure capped in April next year.
Experts had voiced fears about the speed of the project. The 828-meter Burj Khalifa took five years to build.
Neither the contractor, state-owned China Construction Fifth Engineering Division Corp Ltd, nor officials from Wangcheng District, where the building was located, were willing to talk about the reasons for halting the project.
Data shows that 10 out of the 20 tallest buildings in the world are in China. It will rise to 13 by next year.
Many regional officials imagine skyscrapers to be a sign of urban wealth and their political career depended on building as many as possible, said Xu Zongwei of the Architectural Society of China.
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