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Rebuild:LA Episode 012 - Build Back Better with Alexis Rivas of Cover
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Nearly two months after wildfires swept through the communities of Pacific Palisades and Altadena, the dust and ash have settled. People are now taking stock of what they have and whether they’ll be able to rebuild. Can they afford what they once had? Should they build back bigger? Smaller? Should they build back at all?
In this episode we talk to homebuilding innovator Alexis Rivas. He’s the CEO and co-founder of Cover, a company that has revolutionized pre-manufactured homes here in LA County. He talks with Cameron Barrett about everything from more fire resistant building materials to the latest attempt by the LA County Board of Supervisors to rethink state laws about ADUs. It’s a wide-ranging, fact-loaded discussion on how best to rebuild LA.
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Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. About Cover (00:02:00)
3. How do we get people back home? (00:08:46)
4. More fire resistant homes (00:10:40)
5. More sustainably built homes (00:13:50)
6. Building codes and permitting (00:16:20)
7. Challenges of building in the WUI (00:19:30)
8. Building back affordably (00:21:47)
9. Air filtration (00:27:00)
10. Building back faster (00:32:00)
11. Demand for skilled construction labor (00:38:00)
12. LA County's fight against state ADU laws (00:40:58)
13. And yet...optimism (00:45:30)
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