Only two and a half years. That’s the time it takes for the Chinese company LongXin Construction Group to build a neighborhood of 35 towers, each 20-25 stories high, from the start of planning to the point of handing over the keys to the residents (approximately six months for planning and an additional two years for construction).

This is in stark contrast to the average construction time of no less than 13 years in Israel, from the initial planning stages in various committees to the key handover, according to data published at the end of 2020.

The “secret” behind the remarkable pace: The company employs about 1,200 workers at any given moment on the project site, all of whom began working on all the towers simultaneously.

In addition, it uses advanced construction technologies (which are not unique to it and are used by many construction companies around the world, including most leading Chinese real estate firms), including “prefabricated construction” – during which significant parts of the building are manufactured in advance at a factory and only assembled at the construction site.

Alongside this, the company maintains meticulous monitoring of all workers, which includes a control room with real-time cameras on all construction sites, biometric identification methods at entry points and even drones that fly around the site and capture footage of the ongoing work.

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