Buildings
topic on 6 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
We Live to Build 
Masters of Scale 
No Priors 
Catalyst 
How I Built This 
All-In
8 statements about Buildings, every show
Tokmak: Real-world service robotics requires impossible building standardization to succeed
“If robotics is going to do what we're doing with these companies today, every single of those buildings need to be either three D printed or completely like standardized. I don't see that happening.”
Cohen: Buildings account for 40% of global carbon emissions
“Well, design and buildings of 40% of all carbon created in the world.”
Dell: Buildings use 50% to 100% more structural material than codes require
“When people do studies on these type of thing, they typically find that buildings use between 50 and a hundred percent more structural material than is required to comply with building codes, and they do that because the structural material, mainly steel and c…”
Sacks: 20 more distressed SF office buildings will trade within a year
“There's already half a dozen of these buildings that have traded in the range that we're talking about, and there'll be about 20 more that are coming to market that'll trade in the next year.”
Hannun: Buildings drive 40% of emissions, mostly from heating and cooling
“And buildings are responsible for about 40% of greenhouse gas emissions. Heating and cooling is more than half of that.”
Baird: Most Bed-Stuy buildings lacked working heating systems in early 1980s
“And at the time in the early eighties, most of the buildings didn't have working heating systems.”
Ben Nun: Avoid lithium-ion batteries inside buildings when simpler alternatives exist
“We believe that lithium ion is amazing, but whenever you can avoid it with a simple and clean means, you better avoid it, especially inside buildings.”