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Chapter 239 Invisible Lifting Protective Wall
Wang Zhiyuan's eyes suddenly lit up when he looked at the mechanical device similar to the 'lifting column' in the sandbox.

The reason why he did not move to the newly assigned dormitory recently, but returned to his home in Lianxing Village Community to live with his parents, was because he was temporarily assigned by the group to work in the "Rui County·Racing City" project team.

These 'lifting piles' on the sand table are the design plans for the urban race track that he has been responsible for recently.

Chen Jue has taken great pains to build Rui County into a unique "racing city" in the world, so that racing drivers and tourists from all over the world will feel dazzled as soon as they arrive in this county in southern Zhejiang.

Not only did they send out bidding notices to several well-known domestic and foreign construction companies that excel in large-scale urban construction design, they also offered a 500 million bonus pool as an incentive for the infrastructure department within the Magic Cube Group to participate in the design of the "Racing City".

Finally, after a period of preparation and bidding, the "Racing City" urban construction project with a total budget investment of no less than 500 billion and a design plan worth 10 billion was won by the famous China Construction Middle East Company.

The reason why the design was chosen from the Middle East subsidiary of China Construction is that this subsidiary has a world-class design team, which once worked with the American KPF architectural firm to create the most famous landmark in Dubai, the Palm Jumeirah.

Although the Palm Jumeirah, known as the ninth wonder of the world, was largely unfinished due to the financial crisis, the entire project took more than ten years to build and cultivated a large number of mature design and construction teams for China State Construction Middle East Company.

The first point of letting the infrastructure department of the Magic Cube Group mix in as the Party A is that it can openly send employees in to "steal" and learn from the mature infrastructure experience of the Middle Eastern company.

In addition, with the support of a large state-owned enterprise like China Construction, some construction procedures, reviews, and qualification issues are naturally given the green light to be resolved.

It is even possible to apply some emerging infrastructure technologies to this traffic-congested city project by 'adapting to local conditions'.

Take the lifting columns on both sides of the city's main roads, for example. They are designed to take into account the need to cordon off both sides of the street when hosting major competitions such as the F1 City Race.

In order to prevent racing cars from losing control and running off the track due to cornering, accelerating, or overtaking, causing damage to urban buildings on both sides of the road, a large number of sandbags and water-filled guardrails have to be placed along the way.

This temporary installation of guardrails is very common in Europe and the United States. Morocco, Port Phillip in Australia, Imola in Italy, etc., all use this "municipal" guardrail method to build street race tracks.

Earthy but very effective.

After all, once an accident occurs in a high-speed racing car like F1, the entire car can easily fly more than ten meters high at a speed of 2 to 300 kilometers per hour.

If there were no guardrails, any car running off the track would cause unforeseen damage.

Of course, Chen Jue's imagined "racing city" had no intention of introducing this extremely rustic traditional guardrail.

He plans to use advanced mechanical structures to build a high-tech metal protective wall for the street track in Rui County.

So I sent this idea to the project team, asking the employees under me to brainstorm and come up with targeted solutions.

This led to Wang Zhiyuan's hidden "lifting ground column" solution.

Moreover, the hidden guardrail designed by Wang Zhiyuan is very different from the cylindrical ground pillars commonly seen in parking lots.

In addition to the appearance structure being changed from a round body to a rectangular parallelepiped parallel to the road edge, the internal structure of this hidden metal guardrail also adopts a sandwich design similar to Simmons mattresses. The spring is sandwiched between two 5mm thick [iron block] cutting pieces, and rubber, a highly elastic polymer, is injected into the hollow layer, thus obtaining a new type of protective wall that combines high strength and cushioning performance.

Although this 5-meter-high metal protective wall is a bit expensive, the quoted price is as high as 1 yuan per meter.

To build a 10-kilometer-long urban track, the cost of this kind of guardrail alone will cost more than 10 billion, not to mention the cost of paving the track.

Even if an ordinary small county wants to build such a street race track, it may not be able to afford such a large extra expense.

Only a super-rich man like Chen Jue would be willing to spend what outsiders consider to be "wasted money" in order to create a unique ancient town for his hometown and build some distinctive high-tech infrastructure.

Of course, there are also invisible lifting protective walls embedded in the ground like the one designed by Wang Zhiyuan.

Rui County is planning to introduce several cutting-edge technologies developed by the R&D department of the Magic Cube Group on the 10-kilometer street race track.

This includes the durability that can theoretically reach '∞', and the road surface filled with MC [asphalt], which is feared by the municipal engineering field and will not be crushed even if it is pressed back and forth.

There is also a 0.01mm ultra-thin color flexible display screen that cooperates with the invisible lifting protection wall, allowing tourists surrounding the street track to observe the live racing behind the wall with their naked eyes (the technology obtained after the acquisition of Royole Technology).

However, since the construction of the racing city has just started, these black technologies for the track surface are still in the debugging process.

The current work focus is still mainly concentrated in the mechanical group department where Wang Zhiyuan is located.

Wang Zhiyuan had just arrived at the project department and was staring at the central sand table for a while when several Magic Cube Group employees, also in uniform, walked in from outside the door wearing safety helmets.

"Old Wang, you are really good! You have come up with the plan for the protective wall without making any noise. This time, our Mechanical Team 3 has placed a large satellite within the group."

"I guess the HR department won't be able to help you unless you give them a promotion or two this time."

"I heard that there are only three P8 positions at the highest level in our mechanical department, and they are all big names poached from Northwestern Polytechnical University and Shenyang Machine Tool. If Lao Wang is promoted to level 2, he will definitely be one of them (thumbs-up)"

"Looks like I'll have to call Zhiyuan Engineer Wang from now on!"

"Mr. Wang, if you get a promotion you must treat me!"

Listening to the jokes made by his colleagues, Wang Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Okay! If I get promoted, I'll treat everyone to a meal!"

He felt that taking the risk of switching jobs to the new company, Magic Cube Group, was the best decision he had ever made in his life.

(End of this chapter)