Re: (ReacTor) Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips

In article <100qiro$7h8l$4@dont-email.me>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

On 05/04/2025 18:19, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

One of the reasons the US is having an affordable housing shortage is a
shortage of construction workers to build the housing.  I suspect there
isn't a complete overlap in the workforce building factories vs. housing
but I'm pretty sure there is at least some.

>
3-D print construction is being used, if not
at scale.  And pre-fabrication has been done.
With drawbacks, but it's just crossed my mind
that while it appears to be impossible even
or especially in 2025 to build housing without
incorporating catastrophic faults due to
workers' ignorance or deliberate negligence,
a pre-fab at least could be tested for faults
before it leaves the factory.  But would it be?

Factory error would be an issue and so, he said in the world-weary
tone of someone trying to assemble a complicated set using smudged
and unhelpful instructions, would assembly.

Plus there's the odd case of a minor cultural difference between
where the design was created and where it is used. There was a
really eligent design from Scandinavia that used prepoured
concrete slabs that fit nicely together. Worked great in Scandinavia,
where cooking uses electric stoves.

The UK built high rises with the tech. Those had gas stoves. The
first gas explosion lifted the ceiling off the walls, which fell
out. The unit above then collapsed down. The extra weight brought
a whole column of the building down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Point
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