Building Tech & Products
The Innovator's Journal: The Journey Of A Housing Start-Up
This is the first in five-part series from award-winning engineer Candice Delamarre, who with four Stanford University colleagues, created Kit Switch, a novel idea to convert unused offices into homes. Here's how.
Building Tech & Products
Katerra Post-Mortems Raise Risk Of Missing The Point Of The Fail
Here are two utterly simple, common-sense insights few mention as they delve into what led to the untimely demise of construction's late, great Unicorn.
Building Tech & Products
Builders FirstSource Antes $450M In Paradigm Power Play
In the LBM giant's technology integration, a transformative alignment capability emerges, with Paradigm solutions powering Builders FirstSource's enormous solutions infrastructure.
Policy
Reg Burden's A Bane, But Fixing Rules Alone Doesn't Mean Gain
For those whose livelihoods stem from work producing homes in the housing crisis, each area of expertise looks through his or her own lens, and each assigns a different weight of importance to forces that impact that cost curve.
Building Tech & Products
Solar Roof: A Tesla Power Play Elon Musk Must Flip From A Flop
Solar Roof's promises outshone its realities -- sticker-shock prices, installation nightmares, production and distribution. Regaining trust will be Musk's biggest challenge.
Building Tech & Products
Builders Fret As The I-Word Bandies Between Wall Street And Capitol Hill
As market-rate builders sweat out Fed policy agenda on managing inflation and its impact on borrowing costs, site-level risk -- from potential construction defect backsliding -- also grows.
