Brian Potter - How to Fix America's Building Problem

AI is going to sort of make dramatically new types of automation possible. It's tasks that used to be having to had to do manually, uh, you can now do automatically by some uh machine, sort of reduce the the labor burden. People are trying to use this basically AI technology to sort of drive robots around. If you could, you know, automate a big frac fraction of like, you know, construction work. you would be able to sort of drive down the cost of building a building and finally sort of, you know, address this construction productivity problem that we've had for decades.

My guest today is Brian Potter, a structural engineer by training and a longtime practitioner of the same. He writes on the hidden logic of how things actually get made and the author of The Origins of Efficiency. Please enjoy my conversation with Brian. So Brian, the book The Origins of Efficiency, did you write that before or after your experience at Katara?

That was after. That was several years after there. But To me, this was all new to me. I I haven't really thought in terms of the practicalities of trying to make actual construction more efficient.

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