Broad Sustainable Building
| Industry | Construction |
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| Founded | March, 2009 |
| Founder | Zhang Yue |
| Headquarters | Xiangyin, Hunan Province, China |
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Key people
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Zhang Yue (Chairman & CEO) |
| Products |
Sustainable building Prefabricated building |
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Number of employees
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12,000 (2012) |
| Parent | Broad Group |
| Website | broad.com |
Broad Sustainable Building Co., LTD (BSB) (Chinese:远大可建科技) is a construction company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Broad Group, specializing in developing prefabricated buildings. Several of its projects from BSB drew media attention after being erected in weeks, assembling up entire floors in a single day, while reducing costs. One of its projects, which is currently on hold, was to assemble the Sky City, a 220 floor building in Changsha in only 90 days. Once completed, the building can become the tallest in the world. BSB intends to license its technology worldwide and currently has six franchises in China with plans to 150 worldwide.
BSB currently has several completed projects. Some of those were filmed in time-lapse photography and created much media attention.
All BSB building are said to have the following advantages: magnitude 9 earthquake resistant, low cost of construction, high thermal efficiency (leading to low maintenance cost),environmental friendly (low pollution from construction) and inside air that is 9 times purer than outside air.
Record breaking projects:
Also in 2011, a 6 story dormitory was built in just 5 days.
Sky City was a project in Changsha, designed to build the tallest building in the world, 220 floors tall, using BSB technology in only 90 days. Some media publications put the time to completion at 210 days. The project was to be started on November 2012, but due to a delay in receiving government approval, that was put back to January 2013. In the end the start date was July 20, 2013, the Sky City skyscraper.
Cost estimations put the cost of Sky City at $1500/sqm of floor area.
BSB aims to grow by franchising. For a franchise serving 10 million people the franchise fee is $34 million and for a franchise serving 50 million people it is $50 million. Franchise fee must be paid up front. In addition, franchises in developed countries will pay royalties of $50/sqm of built space while franchises in developing countries will pay only $20/sqm.
Coordinates: 28°42′12″N 112°52′42″E / 28.7033284°N 112.8782362°E
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