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The person who specifies a new building system carries all its risk and none of its reward, a reverse moral hazard that keeps construction innovation out.

Drawn from what Brian Potter said

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innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

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  1. Brian Potter Structural engineer and writer
    In many cases, the person specifying a new system won’t capture the upside from actually using it - they’ll be under a sort of reverse moral hazard, where the benefits accrue to the rest of the project team, but the risks will accrue only to them.

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