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50 Things I’ve Learned Writing Construction Physics
Industrial construction has also been a major wood consumer because of its need for concrete forms.
Vaclav Smil • Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
Similarly, even if we were able to produce identical masses of construction lumber or quarried stone, they could not equal the strength, versatility, and durability of reinforced concrete.
Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
The discipline of limited finance immediately started to produce an aura of inspired improvising that enabled the amateur builders to move into the problem with a new awareness that they were beating the system once more. For the past ten years I had, to a considerable degree, let go the primitive architectural character and produced over a hundred... See more
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Housing is one of the most important, most expensive things that humans need.
An estimated 1.6 billion people - one-fifth of humanity - lack access to adequate housing and basic services, according to a recent report by the UN in 2024.
Existing attempts to solve the housing crisis have failed to solve the problem. Approaches meant to solve the proble
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