I’m nearing the house paint portion of my restoration. What blows my mind is that house painting is done like machining on a Bridgeport. Slow and manual.
4 people.
5 days.
Ladders.
Scrapers.
Paint brushes/sprayers
$25k
The $25k cost of the paint job isn’t paint. Its labor spent 30 feet in the air.
Treat the entire building like a CNC part.
The future isn’t robots replacing humans.
It’s one person doing the work of five.
Manufacturing figured this out decades ago.
Construction hasn’t.
Shipbuilding belongs in Erie.
This is a chance to turn an old industrial site into a launchpad for American strength, Pennsylvania jobs, and the next generation of skilled trades.
@macbohannon The academics have their largest mfg conference the same week (MSEC/NAMRC). That has to be the highest amount of collective mfg talks in a single week since the year of our lord (andrew carnegie) 1901.