 What um is the most recent awards was it Oppenheimer film you've watched? Yeah I'm gonna probably wait until I get all the screeners to get everything else Yeah, they may not get poor things. I'm watching poor things. I wanted to watch that for one of the other surprises was I was expecting because of the buzz Andrew scott to get nominated for a sag Yeah, that's strange that you didn't have you seen the film? No, I want to very much I was hoping for a sag screener now. I gotta hopefully get to it while it's in theaters Another one that I heard a lot of good things about that no one has said a word about is actually the iron claw I've heard good things about it. I have two like award level good things about it, but no attention to that at all I I don't understand the Except for one aspect. I don't understand why anyone's giving a lot of awards shout out to the color purple Money and opera. Yeah, and I hate that Money I hate that. She has more money to promote it in the award. It's all political and money driven just like politics. Unfortunately. Yeah, it's yeah, it sucks I haven't seen it, but Hey, we'll go back to our stupid rags of Corbin. Watch the original color purple. I will eventually I have never seen the original color. Oh crap Uh, you can follow me on twitter for more gsc content Thanks for being so close to conch color button It's actually a film that was just released and said it's called how and why india built the world's biggest office I could tell you They have a lot of people and they have a lot of workers They do but I I don't know that that's true because everything's bigger in texas. So I don't know because this is true. Yeah, joke except for the dicks. Yep. Am I right? Compensating for a lot. Yeah, it's true Why do you think their guns are so big lde Anyways, uh, this is a little informational video. We're doing being silly or a quick quiz Okay, which structure has over 7 million square feet of office space houses nearly 70 000 workers And ranks as the largest office building in the world If you guess the pentagon, then you're wrong In november the pentagon the pentagon the title of world's largest office was taken from the Potomac polygon and handed to this New developments in the indian city of sarat thousands of offices 10,000 square feet of restaurants and cafes parking for 5 000 cars and 10 000 motorbikes 131 elevators nine courtyard Gardens retail outlets and conference halls are all built across this 35-acre Fine security compound A structure this size is a true milestone for india's construction industry With a long list of specialist requirements and a pandemic to contend with building it was no me feat In an age of hybrid work where office buildings are sitting empty around the world This enormous edifice had guaranteed full occupancy Before a single piece of rebar was placed. Wow Who could possibly need a building this big your mob India story of how and why india built the world's largest office They have a lot of people and a lot of workers and smart people So If you've ever bought a diamond or are lucky enough to have been given one the chances are it came through here This is sarat in the western indian state Where a whopping 90 percent of the world's diamonds are cut and polished But as big as this industry is for the city, it has a problem Rough stones arrive in sarat where they are processed in one of the thousands of small workshops spread around the city Most of the finished products are then collected by merchants who travel to mumbai over 200 kilometers away Where the diamonds are traded and sent around the world? It's not exactly efficient and it would be much better for everyone if the whole business could take place in one city Or for that matter in one building. That's why a group of nearly 5000 of the city's diamond businesses got together to form the sdb Sarat diamond bourse and this is what they commissioned This enormous 388 million us dollar building was designed to house india's entire diamond industry under one roof That's cutters and polishers from sarat and merchants and traders from mumbai 4,700 offices containing 67,000 people But where do you even start when designing a building this big? I don't know. Do you go for a skyscraper? Well, the problem with this is with such a huge volume of people entering and leaving through a relatively small space It's a really inefficient way to manage the flow of people Plus because the sdb is organized along the lines of a guild all the businesses it represents have equal status So anything that was there was a hierarchy right kind about the picture What about a huge office block instead? Well there you might run into the problem of lights each office needs access to daylight Which is the best quality for viewing diamonds in so anything with a deep floor plan is no good. Wow. Okay. What about a big doughnut? Well there you have the problem of too much of a good thing Any office facing east or west would get blasted by direct sunlight Forcing anyone inside to pull down the blinds and flick the light switch So let's recap It needs to be big enough to cope with the flow of tens of thousands of people and have perfectly consistent light conditions across all floors Without conveying hierarchy to cope with serats stifling humid heat and monsoon rain That's the challenge that was presented to architects more for genesis They began by tackling the vast numbers of massive building had to serve We'd never come anything close to this before and we were looking at this and wondering how we're going to get people in and out Of a building that's seven million square feet You're all going to come in at within a span of an hour In the morning and they all want to leave in a span of an hour in the evening to deal with this The architects had a target that any employee could reach their office within seven minutes of entering the gate So we started thinking about it inside out and we did a lot of traffic simulation the security simulation Of what would that structure be and it sort of turned out to be this sort of Fishbone vertebra kind of plan Which of course is a very efficient way of distributing nerve signals from the brain to the rest of the body It's the very efficient method of Of in in in nature 915 story towers flank a 400 meter central spine As well as speeding up access by aligning the building north to south it also solved the tricky problem of lighting The heights of each of those stars and the distances between them Which are connected by the spine the distance between them are calculated So that the office at the bottom also gets 100% daylight And it doesn't get overshadowed the building's spine also helps it cope with the extreme climate Each end flares out to catch the prevailing winds which are funneled through the complex and provide 50% of the building's cooling needs The communal spaces really in the spine and courtyards are also essential for creating the environment that diamond traders are used to The traders they don't they don't actually sit around in conference room They carry these diamonds in the little packets in their pocket And they sit under a tree I have a cup of tea And and the trade is done So that's the design, but how on earth do you actually build something? I don't know Well, after ground broke in december 2017 It took 6,000 people four and a half years to construct this gigantic building But the biggest challenge faced was undoubtedly during covid Yeah As global supply chains dried up the vast quantities of materials needed to continue construction had to be sourced a lot closer to home We said localize all the materials only Materials that are in within a 500 kilometer radius that we can get access to the ceilings are all manufactured in a place called morby nearby We designed and built an onsite fabrication plant for making the The unitized glazing and so just raw glass was coming in from a factory nearby and and this onsite plant was manufacturing fully unitized units As big as the sdb is this is only the first phase of an even bigger plan called dream city A seven square kilometer smart city providing even more housing and offices all for the diamond industry But this future may not be so glistening The global economic downturn along with the ukraine war has hit the dual market hard Earlier this year 20,000 people in the industry lost their jobs due to a foreign trade But regardless of what happens with the wider economy This building has already taken on a life of its own and become an iconic structure for a proud public It's got architecture conversation in everyday life, which really was on the case in india. We see that uh Uh, it began to drive tourism people want to Visit it want to go and study it. I mean now you can you know call a tourist operator and they've got pseudo diamond bores is one of the things that you should go and Uh I think after two years of pandemic everyone sort of uh, I think it's just sort of giving people a symbol not not just a vision So I think in some sense of this thing it's been really good that way Don't forget that we're inspiring the next generation of builders through our investment in That's amazing. Yeah, that's It's not surprising that india has the largest office building in the world I would actually have assumed that already I don't like this tall skyscraper, but like the largest office building um, but seeing I'm Engineers and architectures are way too smart for my dumb brain. Oh, I haven't I am to understand like Oh, just build a square building. That's I don't know anything obviously. Yeah, I'm a big dum-dum. Um But it's super cool It's uh, I wonder how though because obviously the the I do wonder how the um diamond industry specifically is going to continue to Be successful. Yeah, because in my generation specifically we're not diamond people one the economy's Too awful to buy diamonds Um, like and we just value other things and so like There's been studies like people of my generation just aren't buying diamonds Like at all I can count. I can count on one hand the number of times I bought a diamond. Yeah, and one we just Know how they're usually sourced and so that's that's an issue and then they're just too expensive. Yeah Um, and so speaking of diamonds if you've never seen the movie blood diamond Very good film. Um, but Regardless of that, it's a cool building. Um, and I we just see it more and more that India is at the forefront of innovation especially with um engineering and architecture and stuff like that. Yeah, I Many shocking things that it's a single industry driven thing. Yeah was shocking Their solutions to those problems It like you said That is Way above my capacity to comprehend. Yeah Amazing amazing dumb dumb. Yeah dumb dumb. Give me gum gum. Uh, I can't even build a deck of cards as a house You can't no not well not well. You're dumb. Uh, anyways, let us know what other videos and email information We need to know about this and if you're part of this building. Yeah, let us know down below