Over the last few months we’ve examined the extent of the construction industry’s productivity problem.

Squatter removal services, Apple finding uses for defective chips, process heat use in California, the brewing Colorado River crisis, and more.

A major shift in the housing market in the last several years is the rapidly increasing popularity of “build-to-rent” homes — single-family homes that are built specifically for the purpose of being rented out.

Tokyo’s cheap housing and expensive land, the House response to the Senate housing bill, an IED near an Alabama dam, Fervo’s IPO, and more.

Trapped buildings, in-home data centers, cardboard military drones, Brightline’s potential bankruptcy, and more.

Mostly not very long

Chilling effects in the build-to-rent sector, how fast could robot manufacturing scale up, PJM’s new interconnection queue, the backlash against battery storage, and more.

Though wind and solar continue to carve out larger and larger shares of world energy supply, the modern world still runs on petroleum, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Transformer steel manufacturing, textile engineering, bringing power plants online quickly, infrasound, and more.