Li Huayong and Lin Wei didn't go out shopping, but they climbed to the top of the Peninsula Hotel to watch the night view of Victoria Harbour.

The Peninsula is located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, across the sea from Central, and Li Huayong can see from afar the newly completed HSBC Tower coming to life at night.

"I have heard a saying that the "dragon vein" of your Xiangjiang originates from the Kowloon Peninsula, passes through Victoria Harbour, goes straight to Victoria Shan and enters the sea in Central, and the HSBC bank opposite is the best place in the feng shui of the whole Xiangjiang River, it is in the direction of the most "wealth" in the estuary, and it is the location of the "hidden vault" of the Xiangjiang River. Isn't that so?"

Hearing Li Huayong say this, Lin Wei smiled:

"This is HSBC, so of course you have to pick the best place for feng shui, but I don't believe in these things. What, Ah Yong, are you still interested in Feng Shui?"

Li Huayong laughed: "We are doing architecture, and those who do architecture don't know a little about architectural feng shui." Strictly speaking, Feng Shui is a branch of architecture, and there are both science and metaphysics in it. It's a pity that most people are only interested in the metaphysics inside, and ignore the scientific part, especially you Xiangjiang people, pay attention to feng shui can be said to be no matter how big or small, from having children, red and white ceremonies, to building a house, investment, everything has to be asked to Mr. Feng Shui to take a look, I feel a little to the extent of going crazy. ”

Lin Wei pursed his lips and smiled: "It's the same." Okay, don't talk about that, Ah Yong, didn't you just say that you wanted to tell me the source of your faith? Could it be that the "wind" you just told me is Feng Shui?"

"Of course not. ”

Seeing Lin Wei mention business, Li Huayong also began to talk to her about business:

"You should have seen the architectural drawings and renderings of the Bank of China Tower in the afternoon, right? What are your thoughts on this work by Mr. I.M. Pei?"

Lin Wei thought for a while: "It's beautiful, it must be shocking after it is completed." Industry insiders generally believe that Mr. Pei's architectural design has three characteristics: First, the architectural form and the environment are naturally melted. Second, the space treatment is unique. The third is the exquisite building materials and the exquisite interior design of the building. And the renderings I see now should be said to have these three characteristics of Best. And I've also heard that this building looks like, like something..."

"Like bamboo. Li Huayong smiled and said:

"The renderings we see now are "rising" in the shape of bamboo, which symbolizes strength, vitality, and forge ahead. And you notice that the granite exterior wall of the pedestal is said to represent the Great Wall, and Mr. Pei specially selected a lot of symbols to represent China in order to design this work. ”

"That's right, although this is a modern skyscraper, you can feel a strong Chinese style in many details, which can see Mr. Pei's ingenuity. But Ayong, you're going to talk to me about this when you drag me up today?"

"Tut, if you want to say that this HSBC is really a local tyrant, you see that its ground floor area is only more than 20,000 square meters, but it has encircled a piece of land of more than 50,000 square meters. As for the Bank of China Building, it is said that the enclosure area is only more than 8,000 square meters, and its height is almost twice that of the HSBC Building. ”

"Hey, hey. ”

"What's more, the Bank of China is still poor, and it is rumored that the budget for this building is very tight. It is said that Mr. Pei racked his brains when designing the building, trying to find a way to save the Bank of China's budget. ”

"Hey, hey, what the hell are you talking about? I'm mad at you again. ”

Li Huayong smiled and said to Lin Wei:

"I'm telling you the answer. I just talked about so many characteristics of this Bank of China Building, can you contact me with the "wind" I said before, don't you know what kind of wind I am talking about?"

A building that looks like "bamboo" and becomes more slender the higher you go;

A very tall building with a small footprint;

A building with a tight budget and very economical construction materials.

What's more, it's still in Victoria Harbour, windy weather is the norm here, and typhoons passing by are just commonplace.

When all of this is connected, if Lin Wei doesn't understand it anymore, then her university is really in vain.

"So you said wind resistance, building wind resistance!"

"Hahahaha, that's right, the answer is exactly right!

After listening to Lin Wei say the correct answer, Li Huayong laughed very heartily at this moment. He said in his heart that it was really not easy, he had been crossing for so long, and this time he finally seized an opportunity to open a "golden finger", and he would not lose to the predecessors who crossed it.

"Building wind resistance" is the golden finger prepared by Li Huayong. It is precisely because of this "building wind resistance" that Li Huayong has the confidence to make better technical bids than other multinational companies, so as to compete with them in the bidding.

"Building wind resistance" can be regarded as a relatively advanced knowledge in architecture. Its depth can be referred to the "aviation wind tunnel test" of the aerospace department, and in the construction industry, there are actually "architectural wind tunnels". Both of them are considered to be the most cutting-edge knowledge in their respective industries.

In later generations, due to the substantial progress of construction engineering materials and construction methods, engineering design has gradually developed in the direction of light weight, large span and super height, so that the concept of earthquake as the main horizontal force of the structure has gradually changed, and wind power has become the main horizontal load of super high-rise buildings, stadium long-span roofs, cable-stayed bridges and other structures.

Wind flow in civil engineering and construction mainly involves blunt body aerodynamics, and the theoretical and computational methods to solve these flows are difficult, so wind tunnel experiments have naturally become a research tool in this field. In addition, due to the strengthening of environmental awareness and people's requirements for quality of life, the emission of industrial waste gas and the change of environmental microclimate caused by large and medium-sized buildings have also become a new topic noticed by the engineering community.

In real history, the Bank of China Building in Hong Kong was built from this year to 89 years. Li Huayong knows an allusion, or a secret of this project. It's just that this building can't be built when it is built to a high place, and what makes it difficult for the Japanese construction party is the "building wind resistance", and they have not found a good way to solve this problem.

Later, in order to solve this problem, Mr. Pei specially invited a well-known structural engineer in the United States. Why invite the Americans? After all, before this era, the Yankees were the most experienced in building skyscrapers.

The structural engineer, Robertson, lived up to the hype and suggested a synthetic, super-strong structure, consisting of steel in a box shape filled with concrete, as the wind-resistant and load-bearing backbone.

To put it simply, the structure of the Bank of China Building adopts a combination of multiple plane supports, and a three-dimensional support system is formed in this way, so that the three-dimensional support bears all the horizontal loads at the same time, but also bears almost all the gravity of the high-rise building, so as to further enhance the ability of the three-dimensional support to resist the overturning moment.

Based on this principle, the American proposed a construction plan called the "vertebral method", and it was later adopted by the construction party of the Bank of China Tower that the entire project was successfully implemented.

And this "vertebral invertebral method" is the golden finger that Li Huayong is ready to open. Although he did not know the construction of the Bank of China Tower in real history. However, it is completely conceivable that since the "invertebral method" was proposed in the middle of the process, it must not be reflected in the technical bidding at the time of bidding.

If you suddenly sacrifice this big killer weapon during this bidding.....

At this moment, Li Huayong began to look forward to the beautiful picture at that time.