Is the metric right?
It’s not how quickly you can get a tower up
It’s average speed of square feet built per year
Which is not really speed. Just how “much” you’re building, on average per year
Right?
It’s not how quickly you can get a tower up
It’s average speed of square feet built per year
Which is not really speed. Just how “much” you’re building, on average per year
Right?
The thing that it tries to capture vs "linear time to build a single building" is parallelization capacity. Having one expert contractor who built a tower fast, but no capability to build 20 towers at the same time, won't get it done.
The analysis should probably require more samples or data cleanup though. Just from quick inspection of the city at the top of the list: "The fastest city out of any examined is, somehow, Los Angeles, though random variation may be the cause (it only has five skyscrapers in the database)." - doesn't fit with the article's own criteria of "every skyscraper completed between 2000-2020 that was taller than 100 meters, had a start and completion date, and had a gross floor area" because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_L... this list shows many more than 5.