It’s long been believed the constantly rising costs of new home construction, and lackluster improvements in construction productivity more generally, are fundamentally a problem of production methods.
Almost nowhere in California is building enough, according to the state. Here’s why
California ordered cities and counties to plan for 2.5 million new homes by 2030. Only five jurisdictions are on track to hit their numbers.
Digital Construction Week | Innovation in the built environment
The UK’s leading event for innovation and technology in the built environment. Explore the latest developments in digital construction.
AI for Construction · Industry Report 2026 - ZACUA VENTURES
Executive Summary: The Intelligence Era of Construction The global construction industry is at a $15 trillion inflection point. While contributing over 13% of annual GDP, the sector has long been...
Railway raises $100M Series B to unburden the builders
Railway has raised $100M to unburden the builders, unlock the creatives, and unleash human potential
Home - Industrialised Construction
Industrialised Construction explores both the physical and digital dimensions of construction, covering innovations in platform-based design, kits of parts, design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) and offsite production, as well as emerging digital capabilities including robotics, augmented and virtual reality, automation, data-driven tools, connectivity and the Internet of Things.
Information Salience and Mispricing in Housing
Making the purchase price fully salient to consumers has been shown to affect demand and equilibrium prices in various markets. Using a setting where part of the home acquisition price is in the form of nonsalient debt, we show this can happen in housing—a market where a typical household makes its largest acquisition. A regulation that made the debt and the total price salient for homebuyers eliminated a large mispricing caused by consumers’ inattention to the debt before the regulation. An average homebuyer would lose about $13,300 by acquiring a dwelling with one-standard deviation ($51,000)-higher debt, but this is nearly eliminated after the regulation. To shed light on the underlying channels, we use administrative data and show that young, financially inexperienced, and first-time homebuyers used to overpay the most. The results are not driven by rational channels based on liquidity constraints and adverse selection. Our findings imply that making all-inclusive house price and mortgage features salient at the time of advertising the sale can help avoid unintentional borrowing. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, finance. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4253 .
CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN CONSTRUCTION – MAXIMIZING RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND MINIMIZING WASTE
The case for environmentally sensitive housing
If we are serious about providing the best quality homes we must regenerate the empty built environment. Sustainability would be good too
Beach Street Quick-Build Project
Construction for the Beach Street Quick-Build Project is substantially complete!What’s New
America’s housing was built for a world we no longer live in
The United States is turning 250. Everything we want for the next 50 years starts with fixing housing.
New housing reforms could save more than $40,000 per home
Under Governor Gavin Newsom's new housing affordability reforms, several state housing financing programs will now be brought together under one roof.
One condo, hundreds of homes: UHERO study reveals housing ripple effect | University of Hawaiʻi System News
Housing filtering is a process in which new construction sets off a chain of moves that frees up existing homes across the market.
What to build first: the house or the front door?
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The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress Magazine
Western housing shortages drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.
How Does Circular Economy Work In Sustainable Construction? - Construction Jobs
