“Modular construction has been used widely for new builds, often on greenfield sites, Urban Creation’s approach shows what’s possible in tight urban sites, which could help meet the need for homes,” added Jonathan.

And Hardt’s Houter doesn’t mind the competition from other players in the space, which range from U.S. firm Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) to Canada’s TransPod. In fact, he said, the firm signed an agreement with other initiatives in the space in an effort to boost collaboration.

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One of my associates owns a firm that’s known for high-end, commercial laser scanning, having provided this service for the aerospace industry, the U.S. Navy and the Smithsonian Institution. His company has scanned the Liberty Bell, the Washington National Cathedral and the Lincoln Memorial. Scanning national monuments is valuable for historic preservation, archival record-keeping, model-making and damage assessment.

Most of those built in Santa Monica have been protected from demolition by the City’s strict rent control law — which covers buildings constructed before 1979, the year the law was passed.

Vardaman’s marine-conservation career had also begun with volunteering. She grew up a few miles from Dana Point, in the coastal hills of Laguna Beach. The surroundings—crescent coves, arts festivals—suggested an idyllic, sun-kissed childhood. But her father died when she was eight; her mother, a special-needs educator, struggled to raise three children by herself. As a teen-ager, Vardaman became shy and reclusive. She spent hours alone, on hikes or swimming at the beach, absorbed in her own thoughts. She imagined becoming an actress and disappearing into others’ lives.

ETs are catastrophic energy hogs, far worse than typical urban residential construction. Exaggerated floor-to-floor heights and full-floor apartments create a worst-case scenario for energy efficiency. Superskinny towers also have far more structural steel and concrete than is required to bear gravity loads because of the need to resist outsize wind loads. Local infrastructure (water, sewage, and power) is compromised, or service cut, because of the time needed to pump and discharge water and waste. And consider life-safety issues—how long will these buildings take to evacuate in an emergency, factoring in the time it takes to navigate multiple elevator banks, to rescue people in distress?

All the apartments will be classified as affordable. Five of the units will be reserved for homeless people, according to a release from the developer.

Soft-story buildings represent about 80 percent of the 1,926 Santa Monica structures deemed "potentially seismically vulnerable" and in need of possible structural improvement under the Seismic Retrofit Program implemented by the law.

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When the Great Recession pulled the rug out from under the building industry, many construction workers who lost jobs ended up transitioning to different careers. This compounded a longstanding problem in the industry, which has been raising concerns about its difficulties in recruiting younger people who do not see construction as a viable or sexy career path.