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Operation Breakthrough, a 1970s federal moonshot to build 26 million homes using advanced manufacturing methods, has lessons for today’s abundance movement.

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The wonder of modern drywall
14 Feb 2026
worksinprogress.news

How gypsum changed construction

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Stop incentivizing surface parking lots
4 Feb 2026
open.substack.com

They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.

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GlobalBuildingAtlas LoD1
12 Dec 2025
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Concrete’s Greatest Weakness
4 Nov 2025
youtube.com

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Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?

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Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

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Individual construction tasks have, on average, not gotten cheaper since at least the 1950s. Bricks haven’t gotten cheaper since the mid-19th century, despite massive improvements in brickmaking technology. Construction has a reputation for being slow to innovate, but innovations seem to spread in construction at roughly similar rates to other industries, like car manufacturing or agriculture. Single family […]

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The beauty of concrete
20 May 2024
worksinprogress.co

Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor.

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Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
17 May 2024
architecturalrecord.com

Forum: Reforming U.S. building codes to permit single-stair apartment buildings would facilitate cost-effective and higher-density housing.

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Construction is something that we probably cannot do without as we continue to build houses, buildings, and other structures. The quest for coming up with sustainable construction is ongoing as we look for materials that are eco-friendly and the process in creating them to be as sustainable as possible. There are a lot of waste

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How building codes work in the US - by Brian Potter
30 Jul 2022
constructionphysics.substack.com

Buildings must be built to the requirements of the building code, a set of laws that governs how a building must be built.

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When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades.