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How building codes work in the US
Buildings must be built to the requirements of the building code, a set of laws that governs how a building must be built. Because building codes…
Brian Potter
Jul 29
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The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home - Part II
When we left off, over a few short years mobile home manufacturing had grown into a massive industry, and was supplying an increasingly large fraction…
Brian Potter
Jul 22
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The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home - Part I
A recurring theme of this newsletter is the failure of prefabrication (building homes in factories instead of on-site) to revolutionize the housing…
Brian Potter
Jul 15
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Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part III - the nuclear navy
This week we conclude our look at nuclear power construction costs. So far we’ve looked solely at conventional nuclear power stations that supply…
Brian Potter
Jul 1
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Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part II
To briefly recap, we previously found that nuclear power construction costs in the US and around the world steadily increased from the late 1960s…
Brian Potter
Jun 24
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Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part I
Nuclear power currently makes up slightly less than 20% of the total electricity produced in the US, largely from plants built in the 70s and 80s…
Brian Potter
Jun 9
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Industrialized Production of Joy - Interview with Tyler Goss
This is an excerpt from a longer interview I did with Tyler Goss, a former architect who now works at AECOM, and has had a bunch of interesting roles in…
Brian Potter
Jun 2
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The Ups and Downs of Automated Code Checking Software
A recurring theme of this newsletter is that most new ideas and innovations in the construction industry have been tried, often much earlier than you…
Brian Potter
May 27
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Is There a Housing Shortage or Not?
The housing shortage in the US is a perennially popular topic of conversation for the urbanist crowd (which online includes basically everyone.) The…
Brian Potter
May 11
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Interview with Alice Leung, VP at Brick and Mortar Ventures
This week on Construction Physics I interviewed Alice Leung. Alice is vice president of platform and product strategy at Brick and Mortar Ventures, a…
Brian Potter
May 3
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The Prefab Pivot
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…
Brian Potter
Apr 22
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The Evolution of Indoor Climate - Part II
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…
Brian Potter
Apr 14
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