Re:How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former indu...
by AstralStorm on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @12:05PM
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You'd be interested in how cheap silicate bricks are then. Spoiler: very cheap. Plaster-cardboard, very cheap too, or HIPS board. Actual plaster, base paint, base fiberglass or rock wool for heat. (Or sacrifice space for insulation.)
As is concrete and even the know how and material design tools are not that expensive.
Wiring is cheap, hydraulics are more expensive sure to amount of metal involved, unless you out in for plastics.
(AutoCAD with modules for stress analysis and building design libs would cost you $20k or so, but it can probably be rented as cloud license.)
Rigging can be rented, even work clothes and power tools. Even then the tools are not super expensive anyway.
The expensive parts are rental of lifter, crane and mixer machines as well as good operator. Barring that, more people to set up the building and much more wood and metal rigging.
Building is cheap compared to prime land and marketing or sales markup, as well as paying off credit. (Most buildings are built with financial leverage.)
(AutoCAD with modules for stress analysis and building design libs would cost you $20k or so, but it can probably be rented as cloud license.)
Rigging can be rented, even work clothes and power tools. Even then the tools are not super expensive anyway.
The expensive parts are rental of lifter, crane and mixer machines as well as good operator. Barring that, more people to set up the building and much more wood and metal rigging.
Building is cheap compared to prime land and marketing or sales markup, as well as paying off credit. (Most buildings are built with financial leverage.)