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Detailed explanation-1: -A contractor in India has set records for the quantity of concrete paving carried out for a road project within a 24 hour period. The firm is working on an expressway for the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and was able to pave a 2, 580m stretch during 24 hours.

Detailed explanation-2: -State-owned NHAI has created a Guinness World Record for the longest continuously laid bituminous lane of 75 kilometres in 105 hours and 33 minutes on the national highway between Amravati and Akola districts in Maharashtra.

Detailed explanation-3: -NHAI has increased pace of national highway construction to reach its target by March 2023. The MoRTH secretary has further stated that a total of 4, 766 km of national highways have been constructed by November 2022, as compared to 5, 118 km constructed in the same period of the previous fiscal.

Detailed explanation-4: -The bituminous road was constructed in a single lane on the NH-53 section between Amravati and Akola in Maharashtra. The 75-kilometre road was built in a record time of 105 hours and 33 minutes.

Detailed explanation-5: -T30 Hotel Tower and Ark Hotel, China in 360 Hours The Broad Sustainable Buildings Company created a buzz by building the fastest-constructed building in the world on January 1st, 2012. The thirty-storey hotel was built in 360 hours, i.e., fifteen days. No workers were injured during the construction of the project.