great wall of china

[brian j john]

might not be posted on the right topic but nevermind

taking into account of building supplies , labour , building regulations and everything else how much would it cost to build the great wall today

[heathfield]

It would depend on whether those responsible for the final cost of the new Wembly Stadium, or the Holyrood parliament building, were involved or not.

[jake-the-peg]

The nearest analogy is probably the Israeli wall being errected around the West Bank.

This is apparently costing approximately $4 million per KM

The great wall of China is about 6,700 Km so the equilvilent wall would today cost around 27 Billion dollars.

I think that's less than 10% of the US defense budget.

Moral of the story? :F15s cost more than lumps of concrete

[Octavius]

No society could sustain such a terrible burden. Taxation became heavier and heavier. Some 3,500,000 people were involved in the building of the Great Wall. That was 70% of the total population of China at that time. For each worker working on the wall, six were required to feed and support them. Construction of the Qin wall became the most hated imperial project in Chinese history.

In 209 BC, only a year after the death of the Qin Emperor, millions of peasants rose up and ended the tyranny and bloodshed of wall building. The Qin Dynasty had fallen, brought down by the building of the great wall. Within ten years much of the wall was a neglected ruin. The wall was rebuilt many times through the centuries, and manysections of it have suffered serious damage from wind and water, as well as human destruction.

In todays world, allowing for such an engineering feat of new build 6,352km x 10m high x 5m wide, including some form of aesthetics, infrastructure (site clearance etc) and extra-over for 10,000 or so watchtowers, intermediate barracks, stairtowers etc etc I think you would be looking at about �2-300 billion + fees.

[Barney's pal]

Why do you need to know? Do you have a very big garden???

Barney's pal