07-30-2023, 07:07 PM
(07-30-2023, 01:55 PM)ac3r Wrote: A big issue with prefab as you see in that video is...it is utter garbage. When I was a young intern architect I worked for a firm that loved that stuff (this was over in Austria). Problem was that we could all tell it was junk but the owner loved it. A few projects were done with it and it didn't take long for it to start having problems.
Our inability to build stuff in a fast manner has very little to do with the construction methods and more to do with how businesses operate. The economic system in which we operate isn't very efficient. We are very capable of fast projects here, but we lack the will to do it these days. Further relying on the mechanisms of capitalism - having lots of parts of a building manufactured off site, shipped and then assembled - only adds to the unnecessary complexity.
Does it have to be garbage, or can it be quality construction? Plenty of buildings built the old-fashioned way turn out to be garbage also.