Book Review: Sabbagh's "Skyscraper"
Approx. Words: 1,125 - Pages: 5 Add to cart Price $54.75
...a Building provides the reader with a bird's eye view (or in this case, a "fence eye view," in line with people peering through the fence at a construction site) of how a building is designed and constructed. Sabbagh goes into detail about the building process, from the initial idea for the building, through the design phase, and through the development, construction and completion phase as well. Also on tap in this book are other parties involvedluding community developers, activities, politicians and so on. But for purposes of this report, we'll be examining a concept that Sabbagh calls "fast track construction," how it works, and how effective it is (or not).
In its most basic form, "fast track" construction is similar to "regular" construction, except everything from the financing, to the development, to the design, to the actual construction, are, in the words of the author, "all condensed to an alarming degree" (p. 13). While this means that buildings are built quicker...
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