Tracking two fascinating contradictory themes in built environment / climate justice circles: 1. air conditioning is an abomination and should be abolished. 2. access to air conditioning should be a human right.

KATERRA had both bad ideas AND bad executives. There's obvious & very good reasons that Katerra failed. Leading them is total incompetence, followed closely by willful fraud.

The left image is Renaissance Florence; on the right is an Atlanta interchange, shown at the same scale. This was my first image to go viral, thanks to a repost by Lloyd Alter at Treehugger. For weeks, I had to keep proving that the scale was the same; I still have proof. 1/

Steve Mouzon City center of Vienna vs the biggest mall in Austria (SCS) + parking spaces

apparently, having just sat by while Katerra incinerated $3B dollars, people in the building industry are now pushing back organically against mountebanks with nothing more than V-ray based claim to "disrupt construction"

Omicron makes its entrance … 🦠

Scott Hedges I think a good start would be producing documents that were complete, legible and buildable.

Is Elizabeth Holmes the Michael Marks of the healthcare industry or is Michael Marks the Elizabeth Holmes of the construction industry?

Perhaps the productivity problem in the construction industry stems from the fact we have fewer people willing to join the trades and work with their hands and way more people going into sales and waving their arms about, saying this or that will solve the industry’s problems

Isn’t this the project where the client sued the architect?

Some say we can Electrify Everything! and have the same house and same car, just electric. For my decarbonization class at The Creative School @ryersonsid I try to figure out how much power goes into our built environment & why we can’t have it all. treehugger.com/electrify-ever…

No big deal, just knowledge and beauty sitting around waiting for you whenever you’re ready.

Wood slats as sustainable roofing material. What could go wrong? resawntimberco.com/utilizing-wood…

In general I would prefer the government to favor more system-agnostic approaches (improve code interpretation uniformity, make it easier to use performance-based approaches, act as a "first best customer" for innovative systems, etc.) rather than picking a particular strategy.

I just got a file I requested from the King County Archives months ago about a report delivered to the King County Board of Commissioners about the "acute" problem of homelessness. The year was 1937.

Plan fragment from a mid-rise mass timber building going up in Portland right now. Really?

We’re leaving no stone unturned in our work to deliver more homes for people, faster. 🏡 In January, we commissioned a report to work with all partners on updates to the Building Code with Single Egress Stairs. Today, I released that report: 👉🏾 shorturl.at/LSiL8 🧵[1/4]