Builder Crash Course Curriculum Detail

About Accelerated Learning

By building a complete house from scratch as a 24+ person, coordinated swarm - you are being thrown into a rapid learning environment where everyone pulls together, teaches each other, and has a fun learning experience. We focus on rapid learning in the Rapid Learning Facility - learning by using prepared learning kits. We use open, documented design - meaning that you can access best practice without being limited by trade secrets. The result is higher quality, lower cost, and faster build time, breaking the Iron Triangle of production.

Specific areas

You will learn 10 core topics of house construction in the in the 25% theory part of the course.

1. Solving Housing - housing facts and figures, why is housing so damn expensive, what is the housing crisis, what is the bigger issue, and how to solve it. Open source economy with producer culture.
2. Modular design - for rapid efficient builds. Including modeling in simple to use software. Simplicity, degeneracy, measureless nuilds, buildless design, toolless builds. Integrated design with quad modules. Design for tolerancing, incremental design, and lifetime design. Tips and tricks for integrated design.
3. Tools - a survey of the optimized tool set we use in house Construction. Tools matter, and they are not equal.
4. Build technique - how to execute. Techniques and capacities and limits for using tools in different scenarios. Interdisciplinary build technique.
5. Alignment technique. How to measure, align, true, and compute geometries on size scale from parts to modules to buildings and entire sites - from strings to tape and lasers.
6. Materials - Admissible parts, part specifications, etc
7. Workflows - from industry standards to the time compression of modular swarm builds.
8. Calculations and Engineering - Design from first principles. How to do back of the envelope calculations for every saspect of the house spanning structural, hydraulic, electrical, plumbing, pneumatic, and thermal. Relationship to materials. Open source software, AI, and tables for the same. Load path examples for walls (CEB, wood, concrete, steel) and floors. Calculation magic example with $120 truss vs $720 truss.

Logistics

• We have local accommodations possible with local families.
• Local motels (Cameron, St. Joseph), air bnb around Maysville, MO
• Materials to Bring = work clothes and work gloves, safety work boots. PPE - personal safety items: eye and ear protection, dust mask
• 25’ tape measure, hammer, tool belt - cordless drill if you have one.
• Remote option - 1 theoretical class per day can be accessed remotely as a live webinar. Session consists of remote option where you can call in with questions. Cost for the remote option is $200.

Collaboration and Learning

• Notebook to take notes and draw things.
• cell phone or camera for picture upload (of notebook, people, action shots) to our event folder - [1]
• Sign up to OSE Workshops FB page - and post pictures there, too - https://www.facebook.com/groups/398759490316633/
• Sign up to the OSE Newsletter - either OSE Global or OSE Local in the Maysville, Missouri area. Local posts work days and other on-site activity. OSE global is for global announcements.
• Comment remotely - using our Commenting thread where we have pictures, comments, technical discussion.

Registration

• Work exchange for BCC and schedule
• Early bird first 2 weeks 2-for-1 ($2100), regular 3 weeks up to date ($2450)
• Eventzilla or better