Chapter 957
"888 metres?! Or two buildings? The crowd couldn't help but stare in awe after hearing this, so shocked that their eyeballs were about to fall out of their sockets, their mouths opened wide, like a bolt from the blue, and they couldn't react for a long time, completely frozen.
Tang Shan asked in a daze, "Lao, boss, did I hear you right, building the 888-metre tall Prime Tower? Not 88 metres?"
Li Linfei blandly spread his hands, he himself was a bit hesitant when he decided to build the skyscraper, thinking that the gang were all mummies, looking at everyone's surprised expressions, he smiled and said, "Uh, you heard right, it's 888 metres high, no kidding either."
888 metres, Li Linfei preferred this number, as for how the design unit would design it, that was not his business.
The people were very happy to hear Li Linfei's confirmation, if the company had this tall building, they could work in it, something to be proud of indeed.
"Boss, nowadays to build the nearly 1,000-metre Prime Tower, technically it can be solved, and money is not a problem for the company, the main thing is whether the geological structure of Xiangzhong City can withstand millions of tons of stress."
Vice President Cheng Ming was silent, for the company, money was really not a problem, the most critical problem was the geological structure.
The geological structure? If it was somewhere else, Li Linfei might not be able to transform it, but within a fifty kilometre radius of the city and countryside of Xiangzhong City, the geology would not be a problem.
Li Linfei didn't hesitate much to dispel the vice president's worries and said decisively, "The geological survey institute has surveyed the geological structure when surveying the scenic spot, there should be no problem, and the world's top construction companies can be invited to design and tender the project."
Cheng Ming pondered, if there is that, the construction difficulty is indeed much easier, but then thought of Li Linfei's wealth, and explained, "Of course, even if it is a soft land foundation, the foundation can be reinforced by digging a deep foundation pit and building a high strength pile foundation, however, for building a skyscraper, the foundation is too deep and the construction cost is too high. "
"Where is the tallest building in the world now? I seem to remember that it is the Burj Dubai, right?" Li Linfei turned to ask for some data on skyscrapers around the world.
Cheng Ming familiar with architecture, did not think much before returning: "indeed is the Dubai Tower, 828 meters high, a total of 162 floors, the cost of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, the domestic plan under construction of the Yuanwang Tower, plans to build a height of 838 meters, but due to various reasons, this project was indefinitely shelved, estimated no chance."
Li Linfei stood up, pacing back and forth in thought in front of his desk, stroking his already shaven chin, and after a long time, asked, "By the way, who was the designer of the Dubai Tower?"
"Adrian Smith, a native of M. His masterpieces include several major skyscrapers."
Li Linfei frowned slightly between his eyebrows, he was tempted to invite a domestic designer to help him with the design, but he felt a bit less koan, hesitated and said reluctantly, "Uh, it's better to invite him personally, forget about the tender, I still trust experienced designers more. Although I don't worship foreigners, this is rather hopeless, I don't want to make fun of people playing."
"Well, I think so." Cheng Ming also nodded frequently.
"What about the contractor, do we still need to tender? The Dubai Tower is being built by a Korean company."
"The stick? Let's wait for designer Smith to come over first. General Lien, leave this to you to liaise." When Li Linfei heard that the Dubai Tower was built by a stick country, he was a bit puzzled.
If we say that in the piece of architectural design, foreign design firms are still stronger, but when it comes to construction experience, many domestic construction units are not worse than foreign ones, and on the whole, they are even a step better.
For example, the Centre Tower in Haicheng, the Jinmao Tower and the Zifeng Tower in Ningcheng, all of which are among the top ten tallest buildings in the world, were also constructed by domestic firms.
Buildings like the Beipanjiang River Bridge, the world's tallest bridge, established a few years ago and ranked among the top few difficult buildings, were also constructed by domestic construction units.
In fact, mainly because of China's rapid economic development in recent decades and the many developments and constructions, these construction units have long accumulated a wealth of construction experience. Therefore, in the construction and construction of this piece, Shi Lin is still more inclined to the domestic construction units.
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A week later, an old man with silver hair and several foreigners, led by Cheng Ming, walked towards the steps of the Future Technology Building.
The silver-haired old man was Adrian Smith, the designer of Burj Dubai, and several others were his assistants.
Li Linfei instructed Cheng Ming to take his private jet and pick up Adrian Smith directly from M.
After Adrian Smith arrived in Xiangzhong City, Li Linfei arranged for a fleet of three Rolls-Royces from his company to pick him up at the airport.
It can be said that the reception specifications arranged by Li Linfei were grand enough and Adrian Smith was very impressed, even if he was busy, he still wanted to make a trip to the mysterious China.
Adrian Smith looked at the magnificent Future Technology Building in front of him and felt that the design of the building was quite acceptable.
A week ago, Cheng Ming contacted him, saying that Future was going to build the world's tallest building and wanted to invite him to be the designer, asking him to come to China and communicate with their boss, Li Linfei.
When Adrian Smith first heard about it, he just smiled. Over the years, there were many companies that wanted to invite him to design skyscrapers, all of them wanted to design the world's tallest building, but none of them could really be put in place, mostly for financial reasons.
The slogan shouted very big very coaxing bright, the final realization, it is too difficult, do not know how many discounts.
Adrian Smith refuses and hangs up the phone, he wants to take some time off these days too, leans back in his chair and picks up the magazine Time on his desk by the way.
On the cover a smiling, extremely confident young man, dressed in a bizarre costume, stood on a podium as if giving a speech.
Future Technology Group? The caller had just said that the presentation was for the Future Technology Group, right? Their boss is the richest man in the world, not bad for money!
Chapter 958
Smith smacked himself on the head and regretted it: how could he have turned it down? While he was wondering, his office phone rang again, and looking at the number, it seemed to be the same as the phone number just now, Smith hurriedly picked up the phone and politely asked, "Hello, is this Future Technology Group?"
Hello Mr. Smith, this is Cheng Ming from Future Technology Group, our boss sincerely invites you and would like to trouble you to design the world's tallest building, if there is no problem, our boss will arrange his private jet to pick you up in M, I will be the receptionist, please, what are Mr. Smith's concerns?" Cheng Ming at the other end of the phone was also a bit anxious, the task explained by his boss, if he did not complete it, he even felt that he had somewhat let down his boss's trust. A private jet reception?
Such a high-end, grand reception specification? Smith panicked a little and said politely, "Hello, no problem going to China, I will arrange for my team to come along as soon as possible, and there is no need for a private jet reception, no need to be so troublesome."
"Mr. Smith, our boss said that you are his honored guest and deserve to be received that way. If there is no problem,......," Cheng Ming was extraordinarily happy to hear that the matter was a done deal, and communicated what needed attention with Smith.
Adrian Smith thought back to a week ago, he communicated with Cheng Ming, the receptionist look, himself are a bit laughable, the beginning of the nonchalant refusal, and then the surprise, flattery, emotions like a roller coaster.
When he arrived at the front door of the building, he saw a young man in a pencil suit, full of smiles and looking very much like the young man in Time magazine, this would be the owner of Future Technology Group, the richest man in the world - Li Linfei!
"Mr. Smith, welcome to China and to the Future Technology Group, a hard journey!" Li Linfei looked at the old man with a head full of silver hair, walking with Cheng Ming, this would be Smith, and went forward to shake hands with him.
"Thank you Mr. Li, you are too kind!" Smith also shook hands very politely. Several people shook hands with each other, exchanged pleasantries and walked into the lift to Li Linfei's office.
After asking Smith and the others to sit down, Li Linfei got straight to the point and said, "Mr. Smith, I want to build two 888-metre tall buildings, I wonder if you have any good suggestions?"
Smith took a sip of hot tea and said with a light smile, "Mr. Li, if we talk about suggestions, they are not good suggestions, the appearance of super tall buildings is beautiful, but it will lead to a series of problems related to fire safety hazards, the high cost of construction leads to a lack of cost performance, I wonder if you have considered it?"
Li Linfei didn't expect that Smith didn't start by advocating him to build it, but made the various drawbacks clear to him as soon as he opened his mouth, Li Linfei's impression of him was even better.
After a moment of silence, Li Linfei laughed, "Well, I've thought about this, the money is nothing for me, it's the safety that worries me the most."
Smith was flushed and said with a smile, "If money is not an issue, then nothing is an issue. In fact, skyscrapers can also become local icons and turn into tourism destinations, and Rongcheng is indeed a good place with a dense population and fast economic development."
"Mr Li, if I want to design a skyscraper, I have to first understand its use, i.e. its structural function, for any product design, I have to first clarify its use and then design it according to its several parameters."
Li Linfei nodded and said, "It's like this, a total of two buildings will be built, one building as the company's headquarters, not open to the public, and the other, as you said, as a top class hotel, sightseeing, dining, high class club, boutique, etc."
Generally speaking a skyscraper has a floor area of nearly a million square metres, enough to accommodate 20,000 to 30,000 people, and Li Linfei didn't think the company would be able to cram a building full of people.
"I wonder what the geology of that location is like? If the geology belongs to soft geology, it is more difficult to build, there is also the typhoon phenomenon, after all, nearly a thousand meters of the building, it must have a high enough resistance to torsion, of course, before the design of these must be measured on site, the design is also designed according to the highest safety factor, there will not be any one in a hundred years or one in a thousand years." Smith spoke eloquently, jotting down Li Linfei's requirements in a cheat sheet as he spoke.
"Mr Li, are you sure it has to be 888 metres as a height? What about funding? What are the restrictions?"
"Yes, it would be better to have that figure. There is no limit to the amount of money, do you need tens of billions of dollars to build two towers?" Of course Li Linfei wanted to build the skyscraper in one go, money was not a problem for him.
"Oh, of course it does not need to be tens of billions of dollars, the cost of construction and floor space and height have the greatest impact, even if the price of China is now high, to build a skyscraper also several hundred meters high will not exceed 3 billion dollars, of course, this detailed amount still need to wait for the design to be completed, careful accounting."
Adrian Smith smiled meaningfully and then continued, "Mr Li, since money is not an issue, why not just build it to 999 metres? Aren't the Chinese people all about extremes?"
999 metres? Li Linfei was dumbfounded when he heard this, he thought that 888 metres was already high enough and shocking enough, but to think that Adrian Smith would even advocate him to build it to 999 metres.
Li Linfei thought that "8" was an auspicious number, representing sails all the way up, and the Chinese people liked this number.
But Li Linfei doesn't necessarily want to get into the numbers business, as the number '9' is indeed an extreme number, and certainly a good one.
"I don't think a 1,000-metre building is the highest peak yet. At present, construction technology has developed to such a shocking level that if geology and funding allow, it is possible to build 2,000 metres. Saudi Arabia has now confirmed the construction of the 1,609 metre King's Tower ......"
Adrian Smith watched as Li Linfei stood up, hovered, hesitated, and explained to him.
When Li Linfei decided to build the skyscraper, he knew something about the buildings that had already been built, and he also studied the world's tallest building, the King's Tower, which Saudi Arabia planned to build at a cost of US$30 billion (the investment in the King's Tower was estimated at US$3 billion).
However, for various reasons, the height of the King's Tower was reduced to 1007 metres at an investment of US$1.2 billion.