What Brian Potter thinks about design
Structural engineer and writer, author of the Construction Physics newsletter, where he takes apart how large physical things — buildings, ships, semiconductor fabs, aeroplanes — actually get made, and why the cost of making them moves the way it does.
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2 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Brian Potter has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut as fab costs increased, it became more and more burdensome for manufacturers to operate cutting edge manufacturing facilities due to the high costs, and fewer manufacturers had the production volume to spread those costs over.
↗How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fabconstruction-physics.com 6th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsWhat is different about construction is the level of coordination that takes place: whereas in a car everything is carefully designed to tightly integrate together, in housing construction the work can be done (and often is) with surprisingly little coordination between the various trades.
↗What Makes Housing So Expensive?construction-physics.com 2nd of 4 in this piece