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A phenomenon that shows up repeatedly in a variety of production operations is the learning curve. Essentially, the learning curve (also called the exp…
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An ongoing goal of this newsletter is to figure out ways to make construction more productive and efficient. One strategy for this I’m currently explor…
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We talk a lot around here about construction productivity, and how resistant it is to improvement. We’ve also talked about construction innovation, and…
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One interesting thing about the building construction productivity puzzle is that it’s a worldwide phenomenon. Unlike with say, healthcare, or transit,…
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Folks have tried over and over again to make construction more efficient by applying lessons from manufacturing. Typically this means producing buildin…
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(note: this post is more economics heavy than typical. I do not have any sort of training in economics, so it’s very possible I’ve made a mistake somew…
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This newsletter is, broadly, about how the construction industry fits together, and why it’s so hard to improve its efficiency. The reason for this foc…
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This week marks one year since I started writing Construction Physics. In general I don’t consider myself a terribly interesting subject to write about…
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Advancing technology generally leaves a reduced material footprint in its wake - as time goes on, it takes less and less physical stuff to perform some…
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Brick has a long history of use as a building material - in one form or another, it’s been in use for thousands of years. And though today brick is mos…
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The most common method (or at least the most central example) of construction project delivery is what’s known as “Design Bid Build”. Under this method…
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It’s often hard to find valuable academic research on construction - the number of useful papers seems low, beyond just what would be implied by Sturge…
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