Dec 29, 2023
I live by so many industrial plants that I always hear alarms in the distance and it’s getting on my nerves. I feel like the last few weeks have been particularly bad with an alarm going off every day almost.
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I live by so many industrial plants that I always hear alarms in the distance and it’s getting on my nerves. I feel like the last few weeks have been particularly bad with an alarm going off every day almost.
They are doing wonderful things about creating supply, but construction demand is notoriously cyclical in North America.
Katerra has avoided many of the pitfalls that have bedevilled previous attempts at large scale prefabrication. It is keeping away from single family housing, and one of its founding partners is the Wolff Co, which is big in the seniors' housing market. According to Senior Housing News,
Going forward, all of Wolff’s senior housing projects—including its upscale Revel-branded independent living communities—are expected to be built using an offsite fabrication method that saves both time and money, Craig Curtis, head of the architecture and interior design group at Katerra, told Senior Housing News. Menlo Park, California-based Katerra was co-founded by Fritz Wolff, the executive chairman of The Wolff Co. Scottsdale, Arizona-based Wolff is currently Katerra’s biggest customer, as it has spent more than $500 million with Katerra.
Goodness knows, there are a lot of aging baby boomers and a lot of people who will be needing seniors' housing, if they have any savings and can afford it. Katerra is also not reinventing the wheel, but using panellized systems like they do in Europe (and in a few American factories like Bensonwood/ Unity Homes), and importing European technology.
“We’re not building pods and shipping then down the road on flatbed trucks, fully assembled,” he [Curtis] explained. Instead, Katerra is assembling wall panels—fully complete with windows, electrical wiring, plumbing and more—and stacking them “very efficiently” onto a truck, which then transports them to the final building site.
But as I noted in an earlier post, things are different in Europe.
Unlike Europe where government-supported social housing keeps the factories running, Americans have Ben Carson running HUD. Unlike Europe where they have high standards of energy efficiency, the U.S. is killing Energy Star and promoting cheap gas. Unlike Europe where multiple family housing is almost universal, in the hot markets like Seattle and San Francisco, it takes years to get approval for anything, thanks to NIMBY protests. Conditions are very different, but we can always hope.
Matrix zoning issues alert huge dork. Hey, but I think the answer to that 42 question was "What are you saying to me?" The answer is 42. So clearly there's a place to stop counting. English is a FILTHY language.
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