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Well There's Your Problem | Episode 46 : Five-over-Ones

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Civil engineering & constructionTransit, cities & urban planning

What it is

An episode of the Well There's Your Problem podcast on five-over-one buildings, wood-frame floors atop concrete bases, with engineering background and some oil industry news. It is long, rambling and has NSFW language.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended in housing and architecture threads for its engineers' critique of five-over-one construction.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here's an enlightening chapter of "Well there's your problem" podcast about this with actual civil engineers”

    Civil engineers discuss engineered wood in American houses.

    glogla, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in “So you want to build a house more efficiently”

  2. “It’s a journey.”

    Engineers-and-others podcast episode ripping into five-over-one buildings, rambling and NSFW.

    cr125rider, 2024-06 · Recommendation · in “In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings (2019)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: five-over-one, wood construction, housing, engineering failures, architecture

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