The Ex-SpaceX Engineer Reinventing the American Home with Riley Meik (#421)
About this episode
Chris Powers interviews Riley Meik about innovative solutions to the American housing crisis through factory-made homes.
In this episode, Chris sits down with Riley Meik, co-founder and CEO of The American Housing Corporation, a company building factory-made row homes for the kind of city lots we've stopped building on. For 70 years we got great at putting single-family homes on the outskirts and basically quit building family-sized housing in the places people actually want to live. Riley's bet is that you fix that the way you'd fix any hard manufacturing problem: own the whole stack, design every part from first principles, and build the home in a factory. His first prototype went from manufactured to installed to finished in 13 weeks, and the goal from here is a home that costs 30 to 50% less than local construction. Timestamps(00:00) Intro(01:22) The Housing Crisis Is a Production Problem(04:33) Why America Stopped Building Family Housing in Cities(09:50) The First Company and Why Selling to Home Builders Doesn't Work(14:58) First Principles Engineering: What Does a Wall Actually Need to Do?(21:39) Getting Code-Certified for a Building System That Doesn't Exist Yet(27:57) One Miracle at a Time(31:47) Three Entities, One Mission: How AHC's Capital Stack Works(37:52) 18 Months of R&D: Panel…
People in this episode
Host: Chris Powers
Guest: Riley Meik
Topics covered
- housing crisis
- factory-made homes
- urban development
- manufacturing solutions
- affordable housing
- engineering principles
Keywords
- housing crisis
- factory-made homes
- affordable housing
- urban development
- engineering
- manufacturing
- Riley Meik
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The American Housing Corporation
Places: America
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