trigger
- Housing shortage
- Labour shortage
- Cost escalation
- Insolvency
- Disaster reconstruction
- Remote construction
- Policy
- Decarbonisation
- Ageing workforce
Thermoeconomics · Phase 4 schema
Energy return on built outcome
An evolving research framework. Not a settled universal metric. The long-term ambition is to measure how efficiently societies convert energy, materials, labour and capital into durable, useful shelter.
A highly industrialised project can still perform poorly ecologically. MMC Intensity and Coherence Score stay separate.
Research framework: how efficiently societies convert energy, materials, labour and capital into durable useful shelter. Not a settled universal metric.
- — Useful floor area per unit embodied energy
- — Dwelling-years delivered per unit embodied energy
- — Lifecycle shelter service per unit exergy input
- — Labour-hours per m²
- — Factory energy per m²
- — Transport energy per m²
- — Site energy per m²
- — Embodied versus operational energy crossover
- — Maintenance energy and replacement cycles
TTRP
Trigger → Transfer → Preserve → Pulse
Exposed in the analytical layer, not the homepage hero.
transfer
- Labour from site to factory
- Capital into manufacturing
- Design into repeatable platforms
- Risk between builder / manufacturer / lender / insurer
- Materials across borders
- Knowledge from mature markets
preserve
- Manufacturing capability
- Skills
- IP
- Standards knowledge
- Capacity
- Certification knowledge
- Resilient supply chains
pulse
- Projects
- Dwellings
- Factories
- Orders
- Capacity
- Utilisation
- Productivity
- Cost
- Closures
- Capital
- Policy
Agents (schema-only)
- Scout AgentFinds projects, factories, tenders, policy changes, capital events.
- Evidence AgentCollects and attaches evidence without promoting it to verified.
- Factory AgentMaintains manufacturer and factory records, including closures.
- Project AgentTracks projects through announcement to occupancy.
- Assurance AgentTracks standards, certification, testing, conformity pathways.
- China AgentMonitors Chinese industrialised construction as a system.
- Japan AgentMonitors Japanese industrialised housing and product systems.
- Singapore AgentMonitors DfMA, PPVC and system policy.
- Australia AgentMaintains Australian transition intelligence.
- Coherence AgentFlags where apparent gains may move impacts elsewhere.
- Validator AgentScores confidence and identifies conflicting evidence. Human review remains possible.