State capacity is when you have an entire, publicly available set of manuals and standard design solutions for tunnels (and every other component of railways), and the relative reference cost library, also publicly available and updated yearly. - ThreadSky

chittimarco.bsky.social • 6 days ago

State capacity is when you have an entire, publicly available set of manuals and standard design solutions for tunnels (and every other component of railways), and the relative reference cost library, also publicly available and updated yearly.

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pseudotsuga86.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm mostly confused why we -don't- have this. I can't think of any ideological barrier to doing so like there is with, like, spending a bunch of money on public housing

legomyrstan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Guess then Poland have state capacity then, not sure if costs are included/updated though: https://www.cpk.pl/pl/inwestycja/szczegolowe-warunki-techniczne-dla-budowy-infrastruktury-kolejowej-centralnego-portu-komunikacyjnego

chittimarco.bsky.social•6 days ago

the RFI design manual for tunnels: https://condivisionext.rfi.it/mimse/Documenti%20condivisi/PFTE%20Velocizzazione%20Roma-Pescara%20-%20Lotto%202%20-%20Manoppello-Scafa/Riscontro%20osservazioni%20Comitato%20Speciale%20CSLLPP/Integrazione%20documentale/1_Manuale%20di%20progettazione%2031122020/Sezione%20IV%20-%20Gallerie/MdP%20-%20Sez%20IV.pdf

The 2025 reference prices libraries that work in tandem with the standardized designs:

https://www.rfi.it/it/fornitori-e-gare/regole-e-documentazione/tariffe-di-prestazioni-e-lavori.html

chittimarco.bsky.social•6 days ago

The entire set of design manuals for the civils is available here: https://condivisionext.rfi.it/mimse/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/Documenti%20condivisi/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2Fmimse%2FDocumenti%20condivisi%2FPFTE%20Velocizzazione%20Roma%2DPescara%20%2D%20Lotto%202%20%2D%20Manoppello%2DScafa%2F0%20%2D%20Capitolato%2C%20Manuale%2C%20Tariffe%2FManuale%20di%20Progettazione%20delle%20Opere%20Civili%2F2021&FolderCTID=0x012000B2AE5C4A94F1E8468D12739D0A918856&View=%7B98A42010%2D5C95%2D4B82%2DA7AA%2D94D40402B0AF%7D

chittimarco.bsky.social•6 days ago

North America needs to find a translation for the word "ABACO."

But it first need to abandon the idea that bespoke is better than standardized,

mdasilva.bsky.social•6 days ago

We do have standards - just for terrible things like highways.

olong.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is abaco here just = a table of a standard item in varying dimensions?

chittimarco.bsky.social•6 days ago

ABACO is a word broadly used to define a set of standard or reference design solutions for a specific aspect of a project or item. e.g. you can have an ABACO of external wall solutions, floor structural elements, platform edges, road design elements etc.. It's a typological approach to design.

alex-krits.bsky.social•5 days ago

In Canada they wouldn't see the purpose of having a team of engineers, economists and architects doing this work year after year because they wouldn't understand the value of it for the projects that consistently go over budget and time.

borners.bsky.social•6 days ago

I had somebody tell me today that state capacity-legitimacy didn't matter because AI something something.
Eugh, but like I don't see how a society that do a programming job like itemised costs and think it can AI magic to Utopia.

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