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Over the last few months we’ve examined the extent of the construction industry’s productivity problem.
Why Spain has the world’s greatest cities
Elevated homes have been part of Chinese culture since earliest days, showcasing how intercultural interaction fuelled technology development.
Not long ago we looked at construction productivity trends for the US and for countries around the world. We found that in the U.S., and in most other large, wealthy countries, construction productivity is stagnant or declining. Unlike manufacturing and agriculture, or the economy overall, which generally show improving productivity over time, in the field of construction we find that productivity tends to at best stay constant, and at worst decline over time.
Operation Breakthrough, a 1970s federal moonshot to build 26 million homes using advanced manufacturing methods, has lessons for today’s abundance movement.
How gypsum changed construction
They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
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Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?
Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?
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 […]
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.
Forum: Reforming U.S. building codes to permit single-stair apartment buildings would facilitate cost-effective and higher-density housing.
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
Buildings must be built to the requirements of the building code, a set of laws that governs how a building must be built.
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades.