>Now, drawings are more detailed and contractors are incredibly reluctant to make even the smallest decisions on their own. I also wonder about the effect of b

>Now, drawings are more detailed and contractors are incredibly reluctant to make even the smallest decisions on their own. I also wonder about the effect of building codes, etc.. It might be interesting to plot construction costs and number pages of building code vs. time for the U.S., Japan, France, etc., and see if there are any correlations. That type of plot seems like it might almost be doable.