Daniel Zhang

• Daniel Zhang - why has not earthquake resistant housing scaled? Carbon steel - 57 stories in 3 weeks. Doesn't scale because of efficiency - frames don't create a solid wall.
• Carbon steel is a huge investment - but can't flat pack it. Need frame and envelope.
• New panels are shared wall structure + ease of construction
• Hard core fans in Scandinavia - 10 years for rental housing wait period
• 100 square meter per container
• Reckoning in Scandinavia -
• Architect from Carnegie Mellon -
• Eternal - not carbon steel or concrete - but stainless steel.
• 12mx2m - slice
• 20000 RMB - $4k -
• Kit house - material is ok - forklift can do it
• Gabor - another architect wants to do nomadic kit -
• Can open source design details
• 1500C shattered - each factory is 5000 square meters
• Other than oven
• How you turn
• Dad wants to do windmills, cars
• Wants to create lighter ones with stainless - Vestas
• Copper welded - 2 sheets and
• 1000F adds copper - opens pores and copper fuses
• 4 tons to crush or pull tube
• Cellular solid system -
• Considering supplying
• Flat-pack the house - 4 story with 3 containers.
• 280 square meters - 4 story.
• Skanska, NCC - large conglomerates - capital + acquisition (projects)
• Self-construction - Laminated Wood systems - up to 30 stories. Wood industry pushing it.