Building New Homes
Brian Potter’s reading list has a good housing subsection this week : First, there’s a striking divergence in existing home price data versus transaction prices at the largest homebuilders: Lennar has cut average selling…
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Can cheaper inputs solve the housing crisis?
3D printed structure. Source: Can We Lower Construction Costs with Cheaper Labor or Materials? One of Brian Potter’s latest Construction Physics installment s asks whether cheaper labor or materials can meaningfully cut …
Brian Potter on housing construction productivity
One factor in the high cost of housing is that we’re not better at building houses; construction productivity is relatively flat (not only in the US , but in many countries ). It’s often presumed that this is because hou…
Modular housing's third hype cycle
Brian Potter examines the elusive cost savings of the prefabricated home , and as someone now living through the third modular construction hype cycle of my career, the piece is a useful corrective. There’s a reason we k…