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An overview of most Construction Physics posts, organized by topic.

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The housing shortage in the US is a perennially popular topic of conversation for the urbanist crowd (which online includes basically everyone.) The…

May 11

This week on Construction Physics I interviewed Alice Leung. Alice is vice president of platform and product strategy at Brick and Mortar Ventures, a…

May 3

One of the main themes of this newsletter is that the construction process is significantly constrained by geography. For work done on-site, workers and…

Apr 22

Last week in this series we covered the evolution of heating and cooling technology in the US. This week we’ll wrap up by looking at ventilation, and…

Apr 14

Buildings sometimes seem as if they’ve been left behind by technological progress. Many, perhaps most, of the systems most buildings are built from…

Apr 8

Book review of the Western Electric Statistical Quality Control Handbook

Mar 31

Note: This post is an excerpt from a larger report being created by Kabri Construction Research. Thanks to ADL Ventures for contributing some of their…

Mar 24

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