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Where are Vacation Homes Located in the US?
As of 2023, the US has around 142.3 million housing units: roughly one home for every 2.4 people in the country. The vast majority of these homes – 127.5 million – are occupied. The remaining 14.8 million homes are vacant. Of these, around 4.8 million homes, or around 3.5% of the total, are vacant b
Reading List 07/26/25
Central control building for Kalyon Karapinar solar farm, Turkey, via @sci_fi_infra.Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology. This week we look at an important FAA rule change, construction microfactories, recycli
Reading List 08/02/2025
Goddess of Kannon statue, Japan, via @sci_fi_infra.Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology. This week we look at European multifamily construction, a robot lamp, China's self-driving car test, a "mini Moravec's p
Group Technology, the Forgotten Cousin of Lean Manufacturing
Industrial improvement systems — strategies for making a business more profitable, more efficient, or better operated — rise and fall in popularity over time. Today, the most widely known improvement systems are probably various flavors of "Lean methods," the adaptation of the Toyota Production Syst