#constructioncosts — Public Fediverse posts
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Art, Community Fee Hikes Stymie Units in Perth’s Leafy Mosman Park
A town administration’s eagerness to treble a developer’s public art and community benefit contribution has cast a cloud…
#Australia #Perth #Apartments #constructioncosts #DevelopmentApplications #government #Placemaking #Planning&Approvals #policy #Residential #Social&Community #WesternAustralia
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/589304/ The Housing Essay: Who pays for the pipes? · TheJournal.ie #Analysis #Business #ConstructionCosts #Éire #HousingCrisis #IE #Infrastructure #Ireland #TheHousingEssay
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Edmonton council votes to build bigger transit garage, despite it adding $66M to debt
Edmonton city council has narrowly decided to build a larger transit garage — and take on millions in…
#NewsBeep #News #Edmonton #AaronPaquette #budgetadjustment #CA #Canada #Citystaff #Constructioncosts #edmonton #Edmontoncitycouncil
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Edmonton council votes to build bigger transit garage, despite it adding $66M to debt
Edmonton city council has narrowly decided to build a larger transit garage — and take on millions in…
#Canada #Edmonton #AaronPaquette #budgetadjustment #citystaff #constructioncosts #Edmontoncitycouncil
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“Focus on construction, not talk” – Latvia’s Transport Minister pushes back against Rail Baltica delay forecasts
The task of Latvia’s national implementer of the Rail Baltica project, SIA Eiropas dzelzceļa līnijas (EDzL), is to…
#Latvia #LV #Europe #Europa #EU #AtisSvinka #constructioncosts #Featured #Jaunumi #latvia #Latvija #MinistryofTransport #railbaltica #RBRail
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John Amato reveals an awkward moment as President Trump confronted Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over skyrocketing construction costs during a project tour. Trump claimed costs soared from $2.7 billion to $3.1 billion, but Powell rebutted, stating he had no knowledge of these figures. This interaction backfired on Trump, making him appear foolish. Interestingly, some Trump supporters are now suggesting criminal charges against Powell.
read more https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/jerome-powell-humiliates-trump-during-tour
#Trump #JeromePowell #FederalReserve #ConstructionCosts #PoliticalHumor
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I don't understand how construction costs in the US can be higher than in Switzerland. The median salary in Switzerland is 20K higher, and houses are built using heavy and expensive materials, often include a nuclear shelter, whereas US houses barely have walls.
#construction #constructionCosts #building #usa #switzerland
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/construction-cost-index-by-country
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I don't understand how construction costs in the US can be higher than in Switzerland. The median salary in Switzerland is 20K higher, and houses are built using heavy and expensive materials, often include a nuclear shelter, whereas US houses barely have walls.
#construction #constructionCosts #building #usa #switzerland
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/construction-cost-index-by-country
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It’s cheaper for the council to buy homes than build them, consultants told Dublin city councillors recently.
Dublin City Council spent around €510,000 to build a two-bedroom home but it bought similar homes from private developers for €360,000.
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In looking at various forms of power, one point that's increassingly clear to me is that in a mature and multipolar society what exists are multiple power centres, each often with the effective capability to say "no". The word veto comes directly from the Latin, for "I forbid", and comes from that culture's multipolar power structure, the Senate.
There's also a lesson from warfare and combat, which is that the ability to induce damage or cost on an enemy whilst avoiding it oneself is also powerful. This is the difference between melee and ranged weapons (hand-to-hand, or tooth-and-claw, vs. ballistic or projectile weapons, see also "time-ranged" weapons in the form of traps and snares). "You don't have to be there for it".
Camouflage and armour afford similar capabilities.
The dynamics enabling NIMBY attacks are that stalling tactics don't incure consts or liabilities for those engaging in them. Sometimes this has merits, it very often does not, e.g., the delay of a bike-lanes project which sees scores of additional cycling and pedestrian deaths due to street traffic.
#MoneyIsPower #TimeIsMoney #VetoPower #Obstructionism #NEPA #NIMBY #constructionCosts #construction #housing #UCLALewisCenter
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Why does it cost so much to build things in America?
Researchers have ruled out some of the more obvious potential explanations for why these projects cost more in the US.
As transit researcher Alon Levy writes in a report for the Niskanen Center, “This is not about our wealth: there is no correlation between a country’s GDP per capita and its subway construction costs. Nor is it about geological factors: the biggest factor behind a project’s cost is what country it is in, and costs are fairly consistent even across different geologies ... This is purely institutional.”
And when it comes to roads and the bulk of the high costs — “the new construction bit” — Turner says even though he has “no idea why those prices are increasing,” he can “eliminate a lot of things.” Turner explains that common theories like unions or the way we’re building roads or where we’re building them (for example, in more urban areas) are not supported by statistical evidence.
Time is money, money is power, power is delaying transportation projects
https://www.vox.com/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs-america
h/t Shane D. Phillips / #UCLALewisCenter
#housing #construction #constructionCosts #NIMBY #NEPA #Obstructionism #VetoPower #TimeIsMoney #MoneyIsPower
