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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 19:51:35 -0000 (UTC)
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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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