Chapter 51: Diamond Building Completed

  Chapter 51: Diamond Tower Completed

  Chapter 51: Diamond Tower Completed

  The freshman reception work lasted for three days, and Duan Lei and Da Shan were idle, guarding the freshman reception office of the Faculty of Arts, doing logistics work for Li Er and Zhao Lin. The dog-legged appearance made those who knew them sigh in amazement. It's said that falling in love can really make a tough guy show his gentle side.

  After the new students started their military training on the school's track and field, Duan Yue and Da Shan fell into boredom again. Lui Er and Zhao Lin had to attend classes, so they could only think hard, trying to find something to do.

  It's just in time that the main structure of 'Diamond Tower', the most important building in Makka Base, has been completed and is about to be finished.

  When Gu Yuliang first received the design plan for the "Diamond Building", he keenly discovered that this set of design and construction plans had made a major breakthrough in both technical theory and material application, reaching an internationally leading level. Applying for the highest award in the national building industry - the Luban Award is more than enough. Even in Gu Yuliang's view, after the "Diamond Building" is completed, it will definitely attract attention from the media and architectural experts, causing a stir, and possibly even impacting the highest award in the building industry - the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

  No sooner had the main structure of the 'Diamond Building' been completed and entered the stage of internal and external decoration, than Gu Yuliang began to create momentum in the media, inviting various media outlets to come to the construction site for interviews, wanting to push out the 'Diamond Building' in the shortest possible time.

  "Uncle Gu, the 'Diamond Building' hasn't even started installing the 'mirror metal' yet, and you're already promoting it," said Duan Lei, wearing a safety helmet to inspect the construction progress of the "Diamond Building", pointing at a reporter who was holding a long gun and running around the construction site for an interview.

  "There's no way around it, if you want to win an award, from now on you have to build up public opinion and raise your profile, only then is there a possibility." Gu Yuliang's face showed a helpless expression as he explained the key to winning the "Luban Award" to Duan Yue.

  The "Luban Prize" is in principle required to be inspected for quality problems and potential safety hazards after the building has been completed and used for one year, before it can enter the evaluation. After meeting the evaluation conditions, the construction unit reports to the local architectural association, which screens and then submits to the Luban Prize Evaluation Committee.

  However, Gu Yu Liang has been in the construction industry for many years and is still very clear about some of the tricks in these evaluations. In the evaluation process, many evaluators do not necessarily have such high professional literacy, they are more based on their own cognitive degree and feeling to vote. If you don't promote 'Diamond Building' through media, you will be at a disadvantage when evaluating in the future.

  The 'Diamond Building' has definitely reached the evaluation standard of the 'Luban Award' in terms of technical innovation and application of new building materials, and it is natural to enter the selection results of one hundred projects every year. However, in order to be cautious, Gu Yuliang still hopes to start creating momentum for the evaluation of the 'Diamond Building' when the main building is completed, hoping to hit the target at once.

  Outsiders can't understand why Gu Yuliang attaches so much importance to the selection of 'Luban Award', but Gu Yuliang knows how important it is for Haida Construction, and 'Diamond Building' may be the best opportunity for Haida Construction since its establishment.

  Although Haida Construction is a star enterprise in Pudong District, compared with Taoyuan Construction, China Railway Construction and large construction enterprises in various provinces and cities, Haida Construction is only a small and medium-sized construction enterprise with certain experience and technology in special buildings. Even if Haida Construction has achieved an annual engineering total of hundreds of millions, it still hasn't built any top-level building that can be shown off nationwide.

  Gu Yu Liang just wants to take this opportunity of the completion of 'Diamond Building' to win domestic awards such as 'Luban Prize' and other architectural industry awards, make Hai Da Jian Gong famous, give Hai Da Jian Gong more aura, and expand its influence. If there is a chance, Gu Yu Liang even set the future direction of 'Diamond Building' at the Nobel Prize in the world's architectural industry - Pritzker Architecture Prize.

  If so, will Haida Construction worry about having no projects in the future?

  "It doesn't matter, Uncle Gu will take care of it. Promoting 'Diamond Building' is also beneficial to 'Makka Company'. I'll let the company cooperate with your promotion later." Duan Lei somehow understood some of Gu Yuliang's ideas and didn't object.

  For someone like Gu Yu Liang who has already achieved great success and wealth, once their wealth reaches a certain level, it's just a change in numbers on paper. At this point, what they pursue is more of the recognition from society, and they yearn for success in other aspects.

  If the "Diamond Building" successfully wins the honor of the "Luban Award", it will even have the opportunity to impact higher international awards in the construction industry, and as the chairman of Haida Construction, there will be a heavy stroke on his resume.

  "Since you put it that way, I'll have to take advantage of you a bit." Seeing Duan Yue say this, Gu Yu Liang chuckled and said: "After all, the company's financial arrangements are not so convenient, and the expenses for publicity are controlled relatively strictly."

  The major shareholders of Haida Construction are Haida and Pudong New District State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. High-level management personnel like Gu Yuliang also own a small number of shares. Many things become complicated once they involve state-owned assets. Although as the chairman, Gu Yuliang can decide on the company's daily affairs, he still has to be subject to various constraints in terms of cost control, compared to the more flexible policies of private enterprises, Haida Construction seems a bit cumbersome.

  Like this time, the 'Diamond Building' declared the 'Luban Award' promotional campaign. Although it is clear that it will be very beneficial to the company, Gu Yu Liang cannot increase the publicity expenses at will, in order to avoid being held accountable by his superiors. In a state-owned enterprise management position, there are many people above him who point fingers and criticize, making Gu Yu Liang feel like he is dancing with handcuffs on.

  This is also the main reason why Gu Yu Liang spent more energy on investing in the 'Mirror Metal' production base. After all, no matter how well he did at Hai Da Jian Gong, he could only get that salary, bonus and dividend. In a year, he would have an income of one or two million, which is already an astronomical figure compared to ordinary people. However, for Gu Yu Liang, having a completely family-owned enterprise was more in line with his interests.

  "This is also mutually beneficial." Duan Lei smiled and said, "Being able to promote 'Diamond Building' will also have a good driving effect on the market development of 'Mirror Metal' and 'Alloy Steel' in the future. We are also considering the development of 'Maka Company'."

  Now, the negotiations between 'Maka Metal' and Haigang Special Smelting Plant have come to an end. The two parties will set up a joint venture company with a share ratio of 6:4 to produce special alloys for specific purposes. 'Maka Metal' only needs to provide raw materials for 'super alloy' and various smelting formulas, technologies; while Haigang provides production sites, labor and sales.

  The cooperation plan with Gu Yu Liang is also the same, Duan Lei, who has mastered the core technology of "mirror metal" and "super alloy", firmly controls the controlling rights of the two joint ventures, allowing "Maka Company" to take a crucial step towards rapid development.

  As the two joint ventures are about to start production, the 'Diamond Tower' promotion can also serve as a best demonstration of the superior performance of the two special metals, which is conducive to market development.

  "The stone, now the main building of 'Diamond Building' has been basically completed, and the dust-free production workshop is also ready. I don't know when the raw materials for 'Mirror Metal' can be supplied?" Today, Duanglei was pulled over from school, apart from discussing the publicity issues of 'Diamond Building', more importantly, to solve the problem of raw materials for 'Mirror Metal'.

  Now everything is ready, Gu Yu Liang is waiting for 'Makka Metal' to provide enough raw materials for trial production. First, to inspect the equipment operation and personnel operation ability of the workshop; second, to provide a large amount of 'mirror metal' to 'Diamond Building' for exterior wall installation.

  "The raw materials are already prepared and placed in the pilot test room within the base. You can arrange production after handing over to Jin Lei and others." Duan Lei knew what Gu Yu Liang was thinking, pointing to the pilot test room not far away.

  The construction progress of the 'Diamond Building' and the dust-free workshop were all in Duan Yue's mind, so he would naturally arrange the company's various tasks well, including some matters that could only be handled by himself. Just like the production of 'mirror metal' raw materials, Duan Yue couldn't possibly entrust it to others.

  Estimating the construction progress of 'Diamond Building' and dust-free workshop, Duan Lei has already used the special fungus in the laboratory to produce the special alloy needed for 'Mirror Metal'. Now, the entire pilot workshop is filled with blocks of special alloys, just waiting for the dust-free workshop to be completed before they can go into production.

  "Is everything ready?" Upon hearing this, Gu Yu-liang's heart finally felt at ease, and he said: "In that case, let's not delay. Have the workshop send someone to move it over today, and we'll start trial production early tomorrow morning."

  Gu Yu-liang, who has invested the entire family's funds in the construction of a dust-free workshop, naturally has high hopes for 'mirror metal'. Being able to produce 'mirror metal' one day earlier means being able to obtain high profits one day earlier.

  "This is no problem, you can let them come and pick up the goods now." Seeing Gu Yu Liang being so considerate, Duan Lei naturally wouldn't refuse.

  Soon, several large trucks were dispatched from 'Xin Xin Metal' to the Makka base with workers to unload cargo, and under Duan Lei's instructions, Jin Xin also brought members of the security department to take over.

  Whether it's for 'Jinx Metal' or 'Maka Metal', the trial production of 'Mirror Metal' will be a big deal, involving many issues.

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  The next day, the sky was beautiful, and a brilliant sun shone down from the clouds early in the morning, illuminating the "Xin Xin Metal" factory area with a golden glow, as if it had been coated with a layer of gold dust.

  Today's trial production launch ceremony, Gu Yuliang did not make a big fanfare, after all, when the workshop started construction, he had already held a grand groundbreaking ceremony. Now, it doesn't need to be too extravagant and wasteful. After all, every expense of 'Xin Xin Metal' will be included in the company's operating costs, which will reduce the profits that the Gu family can obtain. Gu Yuliang naturally has to think about reducing costs. If it were in Haida Construction, this kind of showy thing would still have many people pushing for it even if Gu Yuliang didn't take action.

  Of course, let Gu Yu Liang have the confidence to produce 'mirror metal' in a low-key manner. He has already received several small orders that can meet the production intensity of the workshop for this period of time.

  The "Diamond Building" will be the first customer of "Xinxin Metal", and it will also become an important platform and showcase for "Xinxin Metal" to promote its "Mirror Surface Metal" externally. In addition, Gu Yu-liang also pulled in some orders through his connections in the construction industry, which is also a preliminary achievement in market development.

  Today, Gu Yuliang did not invite too many guests, only inviting some investors from the family, customers who had placed orders, and Cao Shaokun to attend the ceremony.

  "Old Gu, is this factory district really the result of your family's efforts?" Accompanying Gu Yuliang on a walk around the factory district, Cao Shaokun still felt somewhat incredulous.

  In Cao Shaokun's view, Gu Yuliang, who is already over 40 years old and has achieved great success, unexpectedly invested all his assets in a new project, with a determination to succeed or die trying.

  "It's just a failed project, at most I'll go back to riding my bike to work, no big deal." Facing his friend's concerns, Gu YuLiang smiled lightly and said: "Besides, the technology and materials provided by Xiao Duan are groundbreaking inventions, the possibility of failure is extremely low."

  The more Gu Yu Liang came into contact with Duan Yue, the more he discovered that Duan Yue and 'Makka Company' had a mysterious and enormous energy behind them, which was also an important reason why Gu Yu Liang was willing to start a business with Duan Yue.

  The "Zhi Wu Rong" project has successfully entered the final evaluation of Haicheng Science and Technology Progress Award. According to Gu Yu Liang's internal news, the "Zhi Wu Rong" project won the first prize in Haicheng and will be recommended as a key project to participate in the national-level Science and Technology Progress Award evaluation.

  In addition, through his connections with the municipal government of Haicheng City, Gu Yuliang learned that 'Zhiwu Rong' had become the main tree species for urban greening projects in Haicheng and was recommended to be promoted throughout the city. The order was enormous. Just in Haicheng alone, the magnitude of the order was enough to make Gu Yuliang's eyes widen, and his confidence in Duan Lei and 'Makatech' grew even stronger.

  Of course, Duan Yue and Li Er's close relationship also made Gu Yu understand that Duan Yue's future achievements would definitely not be limited to his current height. He must take advantage of the fact that he has not yet soared to great heights and establish a good cooperative relationship with him in order to seize more opportunities.

  The overall signs gave Gu Yu Liang a lot of confidence, making him believe that the "Mirror Metal" project will become an important fulcrum for the rise of the Gu family.

  Watching his old friend being so confident, Cao Shaokun could only shake his head in his heart. Gu Yuliang really had full confidence in that boyfriend of Tang's thousand gold.

  Gu Yu Liang and Cao Shao Kun would never have thought that what looked like an ordinary trial production would write such a magnificent chapter in the materials industry, and even more so, Cao Shao Kun would not have imagined that under his leadership, several large-scale industrial enterprises emerged within just a few years, helping him rise to prominence.

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  As the host, Gu Yu Liang wore a sterile suit and led guests dressed in similar attire to watch the entire core workshop through the glass wall, introducing the status of these facilities. As the major shareholder of Xin Xing Metal, Duan Lei and his father blended into the crowd, looking at the equipment under the clean environment, quite expecting the scene after the production line started.

  At a little past ten in the morning, Gu Yu-liang finally gave the order to start production on the production line that had been prepared in advance, and began the first trial production of the dust-free workshop.

  'Mirror metal' is a kind of mysterious metal material, which has high hardness at room temperature, almost several times higher than that of ordinary iron alloys, but after being heated to 200 degrees, it immediately becomes soft, just like dough, and can be kneaded casually.

  Duan Yue's 'mirror metal' produced in the laboratory is a steel ingot, which looks dull and has no luster at all, unlike the 'mirror metal' in propaganda paintings.

  These ugly steel ingots are sent to the electromagnetic heating system at the other end of the production line by mechanical hands. With the passage of strong current, the steel ingot is heated in a short time and becomes soft. After softening, the 'mirror metal' is easier to process. The heated steel ingot moves slowly on the conveyor belt, its shape changing constantly under the action of various mechanical hands and machine tools, just like the plasticine played by kindergarten children.

  Among the visiting guests, except for Duan Yue who already knew that this phenomenon was normal, all the guests including Duan Bingyi and Gu Yuliang were shocked by what they saw. In everyone's concept, the inherent image of metal is hard, how can it be manipulated like plasticine?

  The machine tools and mechanical arms on this production line are not the legendary 10,000-ton hydraulic press, and cannot treat steel like rubber. The only explanation is that these unassuming metals have a very special property. No matter what the final product of the production line is, just this one feature alone is enough to give guests more confidence in this product.

  Because the most advanced production line was chosen, a fully computerized system control was adopted, so there were not many workers on the entire production line, basically achieving full automation. When guests walked to the end of the production line, thin mirror metal sheets as thin as cicada wings had quietly fallen onto the waiting forklifts beside them and were immediately sent out of the workshop for inspection.

  At one time, all the guests were amazed by these produced 'mirror metal'.

  It wasn't until many years later that people realized a revolution in new building materials had started from this small dust-free workshop.