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  • Mail Post collection
  • Available in black, clay, granite and white colors
  • Installs easily over a standard 4 x 4 wood post
  • Made from high quality polyethylene
  • Built in UV inhibitors for long lasting protection from the elements
  • Includes decorative post, mailbox support arm, and planter
  • Products ships in 2 boxes (standard post MP5802B / arm plus and planter MP5830B)
  • Small mailbox recommended
  • Best suited for light weight mailboxes weighing less than 7 lbs
  • Note: 4 x 4 Wood post, mailbox, and mailbox mounting hardware not included
  • Optional mayne solar cap add-on available in white or black
  • Assembly required
  • 15 Year limited warranty
  • Dimensions: 56″” H x 8″” W x 40″” D
    • ]]>     http://decoratorswarehouse.com/test-post/feed/ 0     China’s high-speed building boom http://decoratorswarehouse.com/chinas-high-speed-building-boom/ http://decoratorswarehouse.com/chinas-high-speed-building-boom/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:33:19 +0000 David Bruce http://decoratorswarehouse.com/?p=97 Continue Reading]]>
    A 30-story hotel in Changsha went up in two weeks. Some question the safety in that, but the builder defends its methods.
    By Jonathan Kaiman, Los Angeles Times
    The warp-speed construction is a startling illustration of the building boom in China.
    In early December, Liu Zhangning was tending her cabbage patch when she saw a tall yellow construction crane in the distance. At night, the work lights made it seem like day. Fifteen days later, a 30-story hotel towered over her village on the outskirts of the city like a glass and steel obelisk. “I couldn’t really believe it,” Liu said. “They built that thing in under a month.” A time-lapse video of the project in Changsha, which shows the prefabricated building being assembled on site, has racked up more than 5 million views on YouTube and left Western architects speechless. “I’ve never seen a project go up this fast,” said Ryan Smith, an expert on prefabricated architecture at the University of Utah. In other countries, the most advanced prefab construction methods can reduce building times by a third to half, Smith said. The builders of the Changsha hotel did better, knocking one-half to two-thirds off the normal schedule. “It’s unfathomable,” Smith said. The warp-speed construction is a startling illustration of the building boom in China, where an exodus from the countryside to the cities has swelled the urban population by almost 400 million since 1990. Click here to read more and to view a time lapse video of the construction. BD+C]]>     http://decoratorswarehouse.com/chinas-high-speed-building-boom/feed/ 0