Daniel Rocha <danieldi...@gmail.com> wrote: I think this is not a breakthrough properly. They are just not ashamed of > making that big structures can be ugly and cheap as long as it works.
That is true. That is why I say this would be idea for food factories and other large industrial complexes. Besides, the building is probably already built, it just has to be > assembled in place. It is prefabricated. However, the overall cost and man-hours are much smaller, and the construction process is safer than assembling components on site. The building is reportedly stronger, and more earthquake proof than conventional buildings would be, and despite that it takes less material to make. So, all in all, I would say it is an important breakthrough. It is what you might call an incremental breakthrough, that seems obvious in retrospect, yet which was more difficult to implement than it might seem. Other breakthroughs like this include multi-modal containerized shipping, and the Internet. - Jed
