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My wife constructed buildings in Asia, lol. The fast ones you see on TikTok were like IBS (Industrialized Building System). The building was prefabricated, the

by muzani 4y ago

My wife constructed buildings in Asia, lol. The fast ones you see on TikTok were like IBS (Industrialized Building System). The building was prefabricated, the groundwork was done, and the video starts recording as they transport and connect the parts. Generally it would take about 2 years. Piling and building the foundation is the bulk of the schedule. This is much harder in dense urban areas where it has to be done carefully. Then you have all the other pieces - design, manpower, parts, machinery, bureaucracy, tests, redoing failed tests. Then your services like machinery, electronics, plumbing, facades, cleaning up, QA and defect fixing. High safety projects often go faster because it's accidents that really mess up the schedule. A single death can end up causing months of delays or a hefty "fine". If you already have a generic design or simple, non clever brutalist design, it goes much, much faster and cheaper.

qprofyeh 4y ago
That does sound like traversing a minefield. > If you already have a generic design or simple, non clever brutalist design, it goes much, much faster and cheaper. Any reason why governments don't force this strategy right now to solve the housing shortage. I believe they did, post-World War II?
- akanet 4y ago
  In the US, at least, the government has been slow to acknowledge the root of the housing crisis. While simpler designs do build faster, the main impediment is municipal-level zoning controls that prevent the construction of denser housing. These codes often insist on non-brutalism, insomuch as they mandate certain materials, setbacks from the lot line, and other aesthetic intangibles, but their main purpose is to appease residents (voters) who generally wish to impede more people from moving to whee they currently live.
- muzani 4y ago
  They do it for low cost housing here, and certain buildings like clinics. I was surprised the first time I went to a gov clinic in another town; the layout and size were exactly the same. Turns out they were all built from the same template.

by muzani 4y ago

qprofyeh 4y ago

That does sound like traversing a minefield. > If you already have a generic design or simple, non clever brutalist design, it goes much, much faster and cheaper. Any reason why governments don't force this strategy right now to solve the housing shortage. I believe they did, post-World War II?

akanet 4y ago
In the US, at least, the government has been slow to acknowledge the root of the housing crisis. While simpler designs do build faster, the main impediment is municipal-level zoning controls that prevent the construction of denser housing. These codes often insist on non-brutalism, insomuch as they mandate certain materials, setbacks from the lot line, and other aesthetic intangibles, but their main purpose is to appease residents (voters) who generally wish to impede more people from moving to whee they currently live.
muzani 4y ago
They do it for low cost housing here, and certain buildings like clinics. I was surprised the first time I went to a gov clinic in another town; the layout and size were exactly the same. Turns out they were all built from the same template.