jrmtchll · Fire Marshal · ✭✭

There are very few examples of single or multi family housing which “check all the boxes” from each of the perspectives of safety, durability and resilience. However, a new paradigm in safe home cons… (View Post)

Also, if you’re looking for a university partner for community resilience and quality of life, the University of South Carolina has developed a couple of robust risk indices for community safety in t… (View Post)

Per the article in the latest NFPA Journal, there is a new company called Apis Cor which is getting started in 3D concrete printing of small homes. I believe they’ve done some work in Asia, so with a… (View Post)

My takeaway from this is that the objectives are all commendable, but there might be a perception of mutual exclusivity among some of them. Firstly, housing affordability is a salient and unarguable … (View Post)

So I guess my takeaway here is that while these are all commendable goals, in the practical realities of building and governing cities some of the goals be perceived as mutually exclusive; for exampl… (View Post)