As architects, home designers, builders, and contractors look to meet increasing energy efficiency standards and more stringent resiliency requirements; the race is on to design more and more complicated solutions to maintain relevance for existing products and applications. Many new wall systems designed to increase energy-efficiency do so at a high labor expense, increased materials, and serious creativity. Sometimes a wall section detail crosses my desk and I wonder if creating the technology and materials to travel to and from the moon wasn’t simpler.
"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." - Montgomery Scott