> I guess the answer is all the machinery we employ for larger buildings, but there's no real equivalent for the individual suburban home which still involves m

> I guess the answer is all the machinery we employ for larger buildings, but there's no real equivalent for the individual suburban home which still involves most of the manual labor. Suburban housing is very easy to build. Building 1 storey houses is not a challenge anywhere in the world, and it is possible to build it super cheap even without any capital equipment. Steel housing is a prime example that even a double digit percentage cost advantage, with it being a very straightforward, and overwhelmingly superior, replacement for wooden framing, doesn't seem to been enough to drive new technology adoption in USA.