How China managed to build an entirely new hospital in 10 days - Business Insider

A before-and-after image of the Huoshenshan Hospital being built in Wuhan, China. the steel frame, the building, and the cladding), prefabricated units allow the construction of the foundation and the building envelope to take place in parallel."So the pre-fabricated element, which would be the Lego blocks that you would can see being craned in, are actually fabricated off-site in a factory at the same time the foundations are being prepared on-site."The panic-built Huoshenshan hospital was also modeled on the blueprints of a medical facility which was set up in Beijing in 2003 to help tackle the SARS epidemic, which also helped speed up the construction process, according to Quartz. So it is a great advertisement for a publicly-financed health system," Yates said, Business Insider's Sinéad Baker reported.China is also building a second hospital just 25 miles away from Huoshenshan, which will also be dedicated to the treatment of coronavirus patients and is scheduled to accept its first patients on Wednesday.More than 30,000 people have now been infected with the virus globally.