If you've driven down Nimitz through Kalihi, you've seen the future home of D. Otani Produce shoot up into the sky like a frustrated geyser. It seemed like it wasn't there one day, and then it was there the next.
Just a bit down the road and across the street, near Nico's at Pier 38, there's something going up next to the building that houses Pacific Ocean Producers and Nico's, and it seemed to go up just as quickly.
A close look at this second building led me to think that maybe the walls of this structure were pre-made and then erected, joined together, and even cut down in certain places with cement-cutting saws.
Do they have pre-made cement panels that you link together to form buildings? How do they get the things to stand up and stay exactly in place? There doesn't seem to be any interior structure upon which to hang these things. Or am I just making something up? If I'm making something up, how did they get these walls up so quickly and without those huge steel frameworks?
Just a bit down the road and across the street, near Nico's at Pier 38, there's something going up next to the building that houses Pacific Ocean Producers and Nico's, and it seemed to go up just as quickly.
A close look at this second building led me to think that maybe the walls of this structure were pre-made and then erected, joined together, and even cut down in certain places with cement-cutting saws.
Do they have pre-made cement panels that you link together to form buildings? How do they get the things to stand up and stay exactly in place? There doesn't seem to be any interior structure upon which to hang these things. Or am I just making something up? If I'm making something up, how did they get these walls up so quickly and without those huge steel frameworks?
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