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Construction Physics Table of Contents

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Construction Physics Table of Contents

Brian Potter
Feb 3, 2022
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An overview of most Construction Physics posts, organized by topic (this is just a rough guide, as many posts will touch on multiple areas.) The posts in bold are the ones that I think are the most important.

Construction Innovation

  • Why it’s hard to innovate in construction

  • What construction innovation uptake looks like

  • BIM, Revit, and the database dream

Efficiency and Costs

  • Measuring construction efficiency

  • Construction costs around the world: how does the US compare?

  • Construction cost breakdown and partial industrialization

Manufacturing and Production Theory

  • Where are my damn learning curves?

  • Logistics, production volume and industrialized building

  • Batch, flow, and variability

  • Book review: The Sources of Increased Efficiency

  • Construction, Ford, and a lever to move the world

  • Construction and the Toyota Production System

  • Building components, and the past and future of construction

Automation

  • Where are the robotic bricklayers?

  • Japan’s Skyscraper Factories

  • Why did agriculture mechanize and not construction?

Building Materials and Building Systems

  • Bricks and the Industrial Revolution

  • So you want to use less concrete

  • Mass effects

  • Wood construction and the risk of fire

  • Comparing flooring systems

  • Balloon framing is worse is better

  • How long will a home last?

  • Stronger, faster, cheaper: the future of wood

Business and Industry Structure

  • Building complexity and the construction community of practice

  • 60 years of homebuilding

  • Design Bid Build and the construction value chain

  • Real estate, property rights, and negotiation

  • Every building in America: an analysis of the US building stock

Business Case Studies and Construction History

  • Another day in Katerradise

  • Operation Breakthrough: America’s failed government program to industrialize home production

  • Toyota’s Prefab Homes

  • The Lustron Home

  • Autovol, Stack Modular and labor arbitrage

  • Broad Group Part I and Part II

  • WWII-era mass-produced housing Part I and Part II

  • Book review: Industrialized Building Part I and Part II

  • Manufactured homes

Interviews

  • Interview with David Menard, product manager for Unity Reflect

  • Interview with Scott Reynolds, cofounder of Upcodes

1000-year house

  • Combined and updated draft

  • Original Part I

  • Original Part II

  • Original Part III

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