Dutch construction moves fast.
In less than 48 hours, road workers recently demolished a roadway that was too narrow, installed a tunnel in its place, and rebuilt the new highway to be one lane wider. All this through dead-of-night darkness and the occasional rainstorm.
The project was commissioned by Rijkswaterstaat, the federal agency responsible for maintaining Dutch infrastructure, as part of an ongoing project to widen the A12, a major highway in the country.
Since 2011, workers have been expanding the two-lane highway to accommodate the country's motorists. Estimates suggest the entire project won't reach completion for another two decades or so as the teams work their way along the 87-mile stretch of highway.
The recent road-widening effort also included the installation of a 230-foot pre-fabricated tunnel and noise-dampening asphalt.
We're impressed they moved the thing at all.
Lightning-fast construction projects have some precedence around the world.
Consider China's Ark Hotel, whose 15 stories went up in just two days back in 2010. And there's the bridge in Beijing that workers assembled in approximately 43 hours.
Meanwhile, I'm still working on the same LEGO houses from 1998.
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