{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Climate-Ready Real Estate Investing","title":"The Quiet Revolution in Building Science","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":697,"description":"EPISODE DESCRIPTION\nTwo photographs, opposite hazards, the same lesson. Host Jamie Wolf opens this brief on the Sand Palace of Mexico Beach — the house left standing after Hurricane Michael came ashore as a Category 5 in 2018 — and an insulated-concrete-form home that survived the Marshall Fire as a thousand others burned. Neither survived by luck; resilience was chosen at the spec stage. The story then globalizes: 3D-printed homes in Tabasco that rode out a magnitude-7.4 earthquake, amphibious houses in the Netherlands that floated through a flood, and the Shanghai Tower's twist that cut typhoon wind loads about a quarter. The tension at the revolution's heart is that those concrete survivors were carbon-heavy — so the frontier is delivering the same multi-hazard survival at far lower carbon, proven by a ten-story mass-timber tower that withstood simulated magnitude-7.7 quakes on a shake table. Three forces decide the winners: regulation pulling the material (the U.S. Buy Clean program's $2.15 billion, EU product passports, Canada's embodied-carbon audits), resilience economics rewarding durability, and supply chains deciding who can deliver. The low-carbon materials market is already near $300 billion, and structures hold 60–65% of a building's embodied carbon. The strategic question: Is your product on the right side of the revolution, or one code cycle from obsolete?\nEpisode Summary\nThrough multi-hazard survivor stories — the Sand Palace in Hurricane Michael, an ICF home in the Marshall Fire, 3D-printed homes through a Mexican quake, Dutch amphibious houses in a flood — this brief shows resilience is a choice made at the spec stage. The frontier is delivering that same survival at low carbon (a ten-story mass-timber tower survived simulated magnitude-7.7 quakes), and regulation, durability economics, and supply chains now decide which materials and firms win. The question is: is your product on the right side of the building-science revolution, or one code...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/edaVSiW7TDXFb72yvtrmHy0LDmwIgx2BDQFH-qalgqw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hNmVk/NWUyYzI0MzJhN2Uz/YmQ4MTIxNmRlY2Yz/MzA2ZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}