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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…
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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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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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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…
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Buildings sometimes seem as if they’ve been left behind by technological progress. Many, perhaps most, of the systems most buildings are built from…
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Book review of the Western Electric Statistical Quality Control Handbook
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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…
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When WWII ended, the world, and especially the US, was suddenly faced with far more ships and shipbuilding capacity than it needed. Merchant ship…
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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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I recently came across the National Renewable Energy Laboratories Building Typology web dashboard (and associated paper), a very neat interface for…
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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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Anthony Hauck is cofounder and COO of Hypar, a generative design software platform for the AEC industry.
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