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“No inventions; no innovations," a History of US Steel

Building Apollo

Which Construction Tasks Have Gotten Cheaper?

Could We Boost Housing Construction by Permitting ADUs Under the HUD Code?

Welding and the Automation Frontier

How the Gas Turbine Conquered the Electric Power Industry

The Technological Innovations that Produced the Shale Revolution

The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part II

The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part I

The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines

How Washington DC Got Its Metro

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Why Do We Need Infrastructure Policy?

How Fast Can a City Grow?

How the Car Came to LA

The Worst US Bridges are Getting Fixed

We Need More Research on how CO2 Affects Cognition

The Rise and Fall of the Mail-Order Home

The Story of Titanium

The Grid, Part IV: The Hard and Soft Paths of Energy Strategy

The Grid, Part III: The Dream of Deregulation

The Grid, Part II: The Golden Age of the Power Industry

The Birth of the Grid

Book Review: Healthy Buildings

Could We Stop Yellowstone From Erupting with a Giant Geothermal Power Plant?

How Did Solar Power Get Cheap? Part II

How Did Solar Power Get Cheap? Part I

Could ChatGPT Become an Architect?

Which City Builds Skyscrapers the Fastest?

When Did New York Start Building Slowly?

How Much Safer has Construction Gotten?

Construction Productivity: Structural Steel

The Blast Furnace: 800 Years of Technology Improvement

On Klein on Construction

Does Construction Ever Get Cheaper?

Weekend Roundup: Icon, Diamond Age, Cuby, Gropyus

Goolsbee and Syverson on Construction Productivity

The Rise of Steel, Part II

Roman vs Modern Concrete

The Rise of Steel, Part I