Chapter 1708 Large Yacht (Part 1)
From a project management point of view, there is nothing more satisfying than hearing that the steps are followed and there are no surprises. Anyone who has done project management knows that this means that everything is planned and is steadily advancing according to the project plan. After all, surprises that are completed ahead of schedule are not common. Ninety percent of the more common cases are procrastination. Of the remaining ten percent, there are still nine percent greater delays, and only one percent , it should be considered that the project can be completed normally or ahead of schedule when the project team works overtime.
Therefore, no surprises are actually the greatest good news. The working atmosphere of Zhengyifang Technology is very good. Although there is no special emphasis, the employees will take the initiative to work overtime for almost an hour every day, which is very rare among people at this income level.
Guo Tailai also had to admit that without Mi Feifei in Zhengyifang Technology, I am afraid that the research and development work here would become a mess. Guo Tailai has self-knowledge, he does not have this level of management, and Mi Feifei must have worked hard to support Guo Tailai as the shopkeeper.
"Go, go and have a look!" Guo Tailai echoed without hesitation, stood up and left.
After sitting on Guo Tailai's big red flag together, Guo Tailai smiled at Mi Feifei and said, "You did a good job last year, but you have already been given a ring, so you won't be given the year-end bonus. If you do well next year, there will also be a share reward. Well, with a share award from the design company."
"Cut!" Mi Feifei didn't seem interested at all when he heard the words, and snorted: "I just know how to treat people like cows and horses."
Of course, after all, I was actually happy in my heart. Otherwise, Mi Feifei wouldn't subconsciously touch the ring on her finger. But look around the world, whose year-end award is an all-diamond ring worth at least 100 million US dollars? In terms of value alone, the working emperor is well-deserved!
The design company has grown a bit this year. In addition to the "foreign migrant workers" who were "abducted" by the employees who returned home during the Spring Festival last year, there are also a group of senior domestic clerks. The main work of these people is to actively apply for domestic airworthiness certification from the time when Guo Tailai's helicopter began to fly, and at the same time prepare various materials to apply for the US FAA airworthiness certification. EASA and FAA in Europe are equivalent certifications, so you only need to pass one.
The reason for applying for the U.S. airworthiness certification is also because the helicopter engine uses an American engine, which is naturally convenient for passing. Of course, the probability of passing the airworthiness certification application for this helicopter is very high. These senior clerks are actually accumulating certification experience to facilitate more aircraft certification applications in the future.
In short, airplanes don't mean that they can be launched after they are designed, manufactured, and then launched. There are many high-standard requirements and government approval. The work in this area cannot be spared at all.
Relatively speaking, a yacht is much simpler, as long as it is designed, manufactured, passed the test, and registered, it can sail without so much trouble.
However, Guo Tailai's yacht is not ordinary. From the very beginning, Guo Tailai put forward extremely high requirements to design the world's largest yacht.
Last year, in 2004, Germany's Luersen Shipyard began work on Larry the Madman's Rising Sun, which has a planned length of 393 feet (120 meters). Larry heard that Microsoft CEO Paul's Octopus, which is under construction at the same time, will be 413 feet (126 meters) long. If so, Octopus will become the world's largest yacht, and Rising Sun will become the second largest yacht at birth.
This is unbearable, size determines everything, Larry, a madman and rich man, seems to want to use his yacht to tell the world: men, we still have to use size to speak.
Then the shipyard suddenly received a modification notice from Larry, to increase the length to 452 feet (138 meters), and to build the world's first size.
Paul's Octopus yacht cost 250 million US dollars, and Larry's Rising Sun yacht had the advantage of being a latecomer, and the cost was also 250 million US dollars.
As far as Guo Tailai knows, this year the Crown Prince of Dubai will place an order to build the Platinum, which is 160 meters (525 feet) long and costs 200 million US dollars. In 2013, Abramovich will purchase a 166-meter (544-foot) Eclipse with a contract price of 500 million euros (340 million euros to build). Not long after that, the 180-meter (590-foot) Al-Azam was ordered by the King of Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest private yacht.
Last year everyone thought that the Rising Sun under construction by Larry was the first in the world, and in fact it was. When they first heard the request from the boss, they were all refreshed. As a designer, who wouldn't want to design a world's first?
However, the designers of the entire project team were taken aback when they got the yacht's exterior drawing and marked dimensions hand-painted by the boss. The exterior design is okay, very novel and avant-garde, and looks very beautiful, but when seeing the marked size, everyone's first reaction is that the boss is crazy?
750 feet, equivalent to 229 meters, is equivalent to the length of two more than standard football fields. It is directly more than 100 meters longer than Madman Larry's Rising Sun. Isn't this too exaggerated? If this design is completed, how high will the cost be? Can domestic shipyards build such a large yacht? Maybe ro-ro ships and oil tankers can be built bigger, but the super yacht, this size, is too difficult, right?
"You don't care about the cost or how to make it, just realize the design part." This is Guo Tailai's original words: "Maybe the design can't be manufactured and we can only wait for the shipbuilding technology to improve, but now I want a ship from the world. Blueprints of the largest yachts ever.”
Well, Guo Tailai is the boss, and the boss's order is the direction of the employees' struggle. The boss wants the world's largest yacht, so everyone should work hard in that direction, and it's not that they don't give money. What's more, if the design of such a yacht is really made by their team, it will be famous just because it is the largest in the world, right?
Therefore, the entire yacht design team spent more than half a year perfecting the internal structure and functions on the basis of the boss's appearance, selecting suitable engines from all over the world, and finally completed all the designs before this year's Spring Festival. , It can be regarded as giving the boss a gift he likes in advance.
Guo Tailai and Mi Feifei both know the appearance, but they don't know how the internal structure is designed. Now both of them are also curious, waiting for the answer to be revealed after they arrive at the company.
"Boss, how much does it cost to build such a big ship?" Mi Feifei is not just looking forward to a blueprint, but she knows Guo Tailai's plan. If this super yacht is built, how good will it be? It's just that the cost will never be low.
"It is estimated to be 600 to 800 million U.S. dollars, and I am afraid it will cost 400 to 500 million yuan in China." Guo Tailai roughly guessed: "The specifics depend on the budget given by the project team."
"As long as this little money?" Mi Feifei is now a rich woman, and when she heard it, she didn't say anything, and said: "Create!"