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The substack Construction Physics has an excellent overview of the now 100 year failed promise of modular building and the eternal cycles of the exact same valu
by shalmanese 5y ago
The substack Construction Physics has an excellent overview of the now 100 year failed promise of modular building and the eternal cycles of the exact same value props being pitched in ambitious efforts to reform construction and why conventional construction has refused to be disrupted.
Some great posts are:
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/building-components-and-the-past https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/building-componen...
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/operation-breakthrough-americas-failed https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/operation-breakth...
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/construction-efficiency-and-production https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/construction-effi...
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/book-review-industrialized-building https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/book-review-indus...
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/industrialized-building-part-2 https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/industrialized-bu...
Despite this, he's cautiously excited about some of the potential future industrialized systems such as Foldable Buildings https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/folding-at-home https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/folding-at-home
3D printing https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/3d-printed-buildings https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/3d-printed-buildi...
Plywood Systems https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/facit-homes-wikihouse-and-the-plywood https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/facit-homes-wikih...
And Broad Homes https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/broad-group-part-ii https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/broad-group-part-...
- blueblisters 5y agoThanks for sharing these links! I was looking for an analysis of B-Core from Broad and I finally found one. Although I don't quite understand why they initially excited about B-Core but later call it poorly thought out. Is it because of the cost of stainless steel?
- EricE 5y agoIn what you linked first, his criticisms are (rightly) directed towards pre-fabed concrete. That's not this system. This is a folded system - exactly what you indicate he's cautiously excited about. As am I. Let me link together two or three of those modules - say a living room/kitchen/laundry and two bedroom/bathroom modules. Would be perfect!