[olefoo]

Housing & Home Construction

Most house construction in the industrialised world is still done by semi-skilled hand labour. There are few radical advances in materials or methods that have gained traction with the industry. Partly this is because the building industry is held back by antiquated construction codes that specify acceptable means and materials rather than the minimum performance constraints that buildings must exceed to be considered safe. But there is a lot of cultural resistance as well, both from the building trades and from customers.

Home construction is an area where several orders of magnitude improvement in both cost and performance are possible, just by the application of basic engineering principles. Well, basic engineering principles and a willingness to circumvent the established order.

[kirubakaran]

May be this has to be first done in a country where it is possible (lax codes; not enforced; with corrupt officials etc - there are plenty of those) and made it a great success. May be after that the First World will catch up. You just have to make sure it doesn't get branded as Third World crap.

[japherwocky]

Alas, in construction circumventing the established order is generally known as a code violation, and frowned upon.