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Wouldn’t there be economies of scale here though? Presumably the first print would be very expensive from certification standpoint, but wouldn’t the marginal co
by adwi 7y ago
Wouldn’t there be economies of scale here though? Presumably the first print would be very expensive from certification standpoint, but wouldn’t the marginal cost going forward be negligible?
- bluGill 7y agoMaybe, it depends. If you build exactly the same house on exactly the same soil type. However every change needs to be re-certified - you can get around this of course, the engineer can decide what changes you are allowed to make. Houses get around this because engineers figured out the limits - a 2x12 can up to (note up to not exactly!) span x distance under these assumptions. The inspector just verifies you met all the conditions and you are good. You can do this with any form of building, but it is much cheaper for one building to just certify that exact design. If you only have a half dozen designs it is probably cheaper to certify each separately, but eventually you have enough different designs that you just figure out the limits and rules and never have to worry about it again.
- logfromblammo 7y agoIf you can get the building inspectors to accept the engineer certification from another building of similar construction. You might be able to do that on a single property with 50 identical copies of one design, but one at a time is unlikely. So you build the engineer certified designs and then lobby to get the method of construction included in the building codes.