Topic
construction
- Moongates
We should build more moongates in our gardens and backyards. From Austin Tennell on X.
- Bailong Elevator
Bailong Elevator , also known as the Hundred Dragons Elevator , is a glass elevator located in the Wulingyuan area of Zhangjiajie, China. It is considered to be the world’s tallest outdoor elevator, standing at a heig…
- Masonry
Snake Bridge on Macclesfield Canal. Astbury Congleton, England. Bring back artisanal masonry.
- Norway's Stad Ship Tunnel
Norway is in the planning stages on a tunnel for ships to bypass having to sail around the Stad peninsula, an infamously dangerous spot with high winds, rough waters, and foul weather. It's a 2km pathway under the bas…
- Economies of Scale in Construction
In his newsletter, Brian Potter started a new series looking at why the construction industry seems to lack economies of scale, like you find in IT, media, and nearly every manufacturing business. When you look at the…
- Megastructures
An interesting visual guide to fictional megastructures, like Larry Niven's Ringworld, Arcologies, and Dyson Spheres: Megastructures: The Visual Encyclopedia is part science book, part inspirational artbook. It contai…
- A Brief History of Construction Startups
The construction market for startups (one that I'm fairly involved in, but only as a segment of our market) has been a historically tough nut to crack for technology companies. This is a great breakdown from Brian Pot…
- Weekend Reading: Robotic Bricklaying, Medici and Thiel, and Airtable, Roblox of the Enterprise
🧱 Where Are the Robotic Bricklayers? Brian Potter wonders why work as taxing and seemingly-mechanically simple as brick masonry is difficult to automate: Masonry seemed like the perfect candidate for mechanization, b…
- Why Don't We Know More About the Subway Cost Disease?
Alex Tabarrok linked to this detailed deck from Alon Levy picking apart the possible reasoning for why NYC subway construction is so much more than other urban centers around the world. Levy is to be lauded for his pi…