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 exploring is to try to understand, at a deep level, how improvement has taken place in industries like manufacturing (which, unlike construction,
My father was only a kid in Detroit in 1926 but he told me stories of the Ford 6 month shutdown when they stopped producing the Model T. There was no announcement before the shutdown, one day, the factory simply closed. There was no pay for the workers for 6 months, no unemployment, no welfare, and a communist recruiter on every corner.
great work! I've been reading up on electric vehicles and how the cost curve for batteries has come down over the last decade (would love to read a Construction Physics post on that btw). A few books I read actually cited the Model T example but I didn't fully understand until reading this. thanks!
My father was only a kid in Detroit in 1926 but he told me stories of the Ford 6 month shutdown when they stopped producing the Model T. There was no announcement before the shutdown, one day, the factory simply closed. There was no pay for the workers for 6 months, no unemployment, no welfare, and a communist recruiter on every corner.
great work! I've been reading up on electric vehicles and how the cost curve for batteries has come down over the last decade (would love to read a Construction Physics post on that btw). A few books I read actually cited the Model T example but I didn't fully understand until reading this. thanks!
An absolutely fantastic and well-researched article once again, thanks for writing this!
Brian, great foundation article about how industrialisation has to be achieved in our sector. Any good book explaining what you have introduced today?