884: Chapter 881: Infrastructure Maniac!
Rich and Capricious!
884: Chapter 881: Infrastructure Maniac!
Rich and Capricious!
The verdant mountains stretched on, the machinery roared.
Wu Jie’s concerns were obviously unwarranted.
As the group president, how could Tang Xiao possibly have an unpleasant relationship with the subsidiary’s general manager, Chu Yunxuan?
In fact,
that morning, after Tang Xiao and others arrived in Tongcheng and were picked up at the airport by Chu Yunxuan, they went straight to the company headquarters in the suburbs of Tongcheng.
It took forty days to build, and the headquarters building was officially completed.
Tang Xiao presided over the unveiling ceremony, and Bing City West Mountain Expressway Co., Ltd., led by Chu Yunxuan, henceforth officially had its headquarters.
In the vast courtyard, aside from the headquarters building, there were also a cafeteria, sports field, parking lot, and more.
The warehouse stored plenty of ergency command and rescue equipnt, such as snow plows, rescue vehicles, patrol cars, and the like, all readily available.
After inspecting the area, Tang Xiao and the group made their way to the top of the building.
To et the needs of daily patrol, aerial inspection, ergency rescue, and congestion relief tasks, nearly sixty million yuan were spent to acquire two multipurpose helicopters, equipped with pilots, ground crews, and other personnel, forming an aviation departnt.
A large helipad was built on top of the company headquarters, and a small aviation base was constructed in Bailing County, with an operating radius of two hundred kiloters.
Thus, aside from eting the company’s own needs, it could also undertake services for the surrounding communities.
In the event of a traffic accident or a sudden serious illness, helicopters could quickly deploy to rescue the injured, many tis more efficient than an ambulance.
Of course, high-voltage power line patrol, aerial photography, pesticide spraying, flight tourism, charter business, and so on could also be undertaken.
The shrewd and capable Chu Yunxuan had already secured many businesses for the aviation departnt.
Helicopters were expensive to buy and costly to maintain, not to ntion the crew and ground staff received no small compensation…
The aviation departnt should have been in deficit year-round, but what was the result?
The expressway had just begun construction not long ago, yet the aviation departnt had started to see a constant flow of business.
According to Chu Yunxuan’s estimates, the aviation departnt could break even within two years, and by the third year, it could start making money for the company.
So capable and daring to act, Tang Xiao couldn’t help but offer praise and admiration to Chu Yunxuan.
In the afternoon,
Tang Xiao, who had a pilot’s license, personally flew a helicopter, carrying Chu Yunxuan and others directly to Heyu Mountain Tunnel.
All the way along the construction segnts of the expressway that was under construction, it was equivalent to conducting an aerial inspection.
The reputation of ‘Infrastructure Maniac’ from Liuli Continent had long been famous around the world, standing proud globally.
Hundreds of ters tall skyscrapers, tunnels over ten kiloters long, bridges with spans of several kiloters, tunnels under the sea tens of kiloters long…
All these complex projects could be conquered, so building roads and bridges on plains and hills was a piece of cake.
People in the engineering field all know that as long as the money is in place, everything else is not a problem.
More than twenty years ago, they could create the amazing record of ‘building a floor in three days.’
And today, with a large number of engineering machinery and equipnt, could the speed of road construction not be fast?
Excavating foundations, laying pipelines, backfilling with coarse and fine aggregate, paving asphalt, implenting protection…
After officially starting construction, non-stop work 24 hours a day, sections of simple terrain and topography had already started to take shape.
So now what was constraining the construction period were those ti-consuming and labor-intensive bridges and tunnels.
Especially the Heyu Mountain Tunnel, the controlling project of the entire line, designed to be nearly six kiloters in length.
To ensure a maximum speed of 120 kiloters per hour, the tunnel’s diater had to be larger, and it encountered complex geology, making the construction difficult.
And to expedite the construction period, in fact, as soon as land requisition was completed, work on the tunnel had already begun ahead of schedule.
Now, after more than twenty days, nearly a hundred ters had been tunneled in both directions.
After Tang Xiao flew the helicopter to the construction site, she first listened to the project departnt’s work report, and then went into the tunnel to inspect the construction.
Tunnel construction is particularly prone to geological disasters such as high-pressure burst mud, water ingress, gas eruptions, and rock bursts.
Therefore, what Tang Xiao focused on checking was the construction safety asures, and an ergency evacuation drill was required on-site.
The tunnel, although important, was less valuable than human life.
Leaving the Heyu Mountain Tunnel project departnt, Tang Xiao continued to fly the helicopter along the expressway’s construction sites.
Those ordinary road segnts with digging through mountains and bridging over rivers were rely given a brief look.
The most noteworthy was the long-span cable-stayed bridge over the river, with a total length of two kiloters and a maximum span of five hundred ters.
This bridge had to erect two towers over two hundred ters tall amidst the torrential river.
Before the formal construction of the entire line, the two towers of the bridge were already under construction.
Setting steel casings, drilling pile foundations, building steel sleeve bearings…
Now that Tang Xiao had brought people to visit the construction site, the two towers were undergoing pile foundation work.
And the bridge piers on both sides were also under intensive construction.
After the site visit, Tang Xiao imdiately held a video-teleconference on the expressway project on-site.
This expressway brought together several ‘China-headquartered’ construction giants, with plenty of experience in major construction projects.
More than forty units along the entire line were working day and night.
In terms of technical difficulty, this expressway was not that challenging.
Sections on plains and hillsides were estimated to be completed one after another within two to three months.
And so bridges and tunnels were definitely doable within a year.
But what Tang Xiao emphasized was not the construction period or quality, but safety.
Because each participating organization was formidable, with ample experience and robust technical strength—construction period and quality were not concerns.
Therefore, Tang Xiao demanded both construction and employnt to be doubly safe.
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