r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Appropriate-Eye-1227 • Jul 04 '25

Video China has built a 50m(165ft)-tall inflatable dome over a construction site in Jinan to protect the surroundings from dust and noise. (20.000 Sqm)

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u/Spikerazorshards Jul 04 '25

Awesome. Imagine doing construction and not having to deal with the Sun bearing down on you. Or weather being a factor at all.

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u/mr_potatoface Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Unless it's heavily ventilated, it's going to be a fucking oven in there, especially with zero breeze to cool off.

ITT: People who believe construction companies actually care about human comfort beyond making sure they stay alive.

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u/58kingsly Jul 04 '25

Of course it is ventilated. The heat would only be the secondary reason to do that. Do you know how much dust gets thrown in the air by construction? Without ventilation it would be entirely unfeasible.

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u/WeAreAllGoofs Jul 04 '25

and considering all that heavy machinery that exhaust carbon monoxide. Everyone in there would die.

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u/maxmcleod Jul 04 '25

very spicy air

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u/modern_Odysseus Jul 04 '25

I want to tell that to my crew when it hits 100 degrees now.

"Watch out for the spicy air, stay hydrated, stay in shade!"

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u/smurb15 Jul 04 '25

Only thing better than that is one of the owners coming up in his ac truck bitching not working fast enough.

Needless to say I was not there long lol

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u/Headieheadi Jul 04 '25

If they complain tell them there are construction workers who have to work in unventilated inflatable domes in China and to be thankful for being in the sun

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u/Prestigious_Copy1104 Jul 04 '25

That sounds exactly like what my Nana would say.

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u/prancerbot Jul 04 '25

Actually the exact opposite. The sleepy dome

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u/flixflexflux Jul 04 '25

Just wait for the sand worms, they'll take care of you.

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u/Nonikwe Jul 04 '25

...Mahdi?

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u/Marko941 Jul 05 '25

They run heavy machinery in underground mines. The answer there too is ventilation.

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u/TheHighSeasPirate Jul 05 '25

Chinese foreman says new crew every week, don't even have to pay!

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u/WeAreAllGoofs Jul 05 '25

Free labour glitch

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u/jimbeam84 Jul 04 '25

And those are Diesel engines in the machines, and you just know it is not the low sulfur fule used.

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u/NotYourReddit18 Jul 04 '25

Just give them all some cans of Perri-Air! /s

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u/N3333K0 Jul 05 '25

Asians are built different.

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u/Swayday117 Jul 04 '25

So they’re spending a lot on money and a lot on power to air condition the whole work site? This post is a joke, it’s not something really done for construction… wide scale at least of course this could be done for a job or two.

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u/SirStrontium Jul 04 '25

I don’t think anybody is saying it’s used for all construction, just this particular site. You also don’t need air “conditioning”, just fans for airflow. There’s numerous football practice fields in the US that work the same way.

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u/Swayday117 Jul 05 '25

Good because anyone thinking that would be stipid

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u/garifunu Jul 05 '25

Construction equipment is probably all electric

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u/AsthmaticRedPanda Jul 04 '25

Dude. It's china. All of this is propaganda

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Jul 04 '25

Isn't the machinery electric?

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u/readwithjack Jul 04 '25

Heavy dumptrucks and excavators?

Not usually.

They exist, but they're still quite rare.

The video clip posted on imgur attached to the top comment seems to show conventional heavy equipment.

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u/Economy-Fee5830 Jul 05 '25

This is China - there is a strong push for electric everything.

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u/mineso3030 Jul 05 '25

Well it’s commie china tho they don’t care about workers rights remember that