What If Cars Were Built Like Construction Sites

Construction sites are built to fail.

If cars were built like buildings, they'd never leave the driveway.

Here's why...Platt Boyd: "here is a bunch of wire and plastic and metal and some glass. Put it in your front yard and say, okay, now build a car in your front yard."In this clip, Platt Boyd, Founder and former Chief Innovation Architect of Branch Technology, talks with Ryan Ware for construction and AEC leaders about factory vs jobsite building.

- Manual assembly on custom sites is still the industry standard
- That standard drives delays, cost overruns, and massive landfill waste
- Cellular fabrication prints only needed geometry, then infills with common materials

The Shift:
construction sites don't need harder work, they need smarter geometry. "Nature puts material only where strength lives."

Watch the full episode: How 3D Printing Lets Construction Build More With Less Material

What is one thing on your project right now that feels like a factory-floor bottleneck?