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On this building, the elevator actually? six days. That's correct. Six days. And how tall will it be when you finish it? 120 ft. That's the equivalent in stories to how tall the building. Approximately 12 to 14 stories. So in actuality, you've built a 12 14 story

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building in six days. That's right. How is this accomplished? Well, the forms are, the method is called a slip form method of pouring concrete. Worry about you just to have a continual pouring operation and jacking operation with the form. When you pour the concrete at the

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bottom, it goes all the way to the top and his support. And then how do you build on top of that? The forum is only 3.5 ft high. So when you start at the bottom you're only hoisting concrete 3.5 ft. And then you keep progressively raising

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your form and as your form raises you keep pouring concrete and you have men there working smoothing it and doing whatever they have to do. Yeah, that's right. Well, it seems that you would be building on wet concrete though. Is it fast drying or what happened

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to normal strength concrete? However, when concrete is totally enclosed in a bin as these are, you have the effect of esteem cure on the inside. You do get some acceleration from the heat of hydration from the cement and so forth.