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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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The Evolution of Indoor Climate - Part I
Buildings sometimes seem as if they’ve been left behind by technological progress. Many, perhaps most, of the systems most buildings are built from…
Brian Potter
Apr 8
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The Science of Production
Book review of the Western Electric Statistical Quality Control Handbook
Brian Potter
Mar 31
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A Brief History of Construction Startups
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…
Brian Potter
Mar 24
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Lessons from Shipbuilding Productivity - Part II
When WWII ended, the world, and especially the US, was suddenly faced with far more ships and shipbuilding capacity than it needed. Merchant ship…
Brian Potter
Mar 10
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Lessons from Shipbuilding Productivity - Part I
When trying to think of how construction might be improved, I’ve often reached for a car manufacturing analogy. Cars are large, complex objects that…
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Mar 4
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Looking at Energy Use in US Residential Buildings
I recently came across the National Renewable Energy Laboratories Building Typology web dashboard (and associated paper), a very neat interface for…
Brian Potter
Feb 25
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How much do construction costs matter? Some factors that affect the price of housing
One of the goals of this newsletter is to figure out ways to improve construction productivity and reduce the costs of construction, particularly…
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Feb 16
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Interview with Anthony Hauck, cofounder of Hypar
Anthony Hauck is cofounder and COO of Hypar, a generative design software platform for the AEC industry.
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Feb 12
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