A-frame

So the lock-in effect is where you undertake some work and then the impact of that work from a operational energy and carbon perspective is then locked in for the life of that component or assembly.

So an example would be at the very beginning stages of my own retrofit here, this is a 1970s A-frame.

So if I was to replace these beautiful 50-year-old single glazed aluminium windows with, you know, okay, thermally broken, double glazing that's code compliant, then I've locked in... impact of that glazing for the next 25 years for the life of that glazing of those windows.

Whereas if I put in UPVC or timber or really amazing proper thermally broken windows with triple glazing, then the effect of that retrofit is going to be then locked in for the life of that product.

Yeah, sure.

So the first thing that I've done is to do the ceiling.

So obviously A-frame is mostly roof.

And originally we had exposed rafters and the only insulation in the roof was about 12 mil of Pynex.

So what is the availability of your utilities? And the biggest one is going to be, are you on municipal power, water, and sewer? Or are you on a well? Are you on a septic system? Are you on solar? And those are going to affect things greatly.

Like for example, when we were designing our A-frames for Ponderosa, we had a very low power supply.

load capacity at our sites.

Our power grid was very old and it was meant for RVs from 60 years ago that barely had power systems in them.

Absolutely.

What you may run into is where you can't run everything at the same time on the 30 amp, but you absolutely can run all of those.

So for instance, in the A-frames we did at Ponderosa, we did it on 30 amps.

We did a 12K BTU in that unit.

The spread between tracks, 20 feet.

The height of the A-frame, 38 feet.

Length of boom, 40 feet.

Swinging in a circle of 30 feet radius and through two-thirds of the entire circle.

Um, which I suppose is another caveat to throw in a report for most listening to this podcast.

And again, again, something that most structural engineers would have designed pitch roofs, A-frame roofs.

It's a classic.

It's a classic engineering degree, kind of year one analysis is an A-frame and working out the horizontal forces in the tie of an A-frame and you move the tie up and the forces increase and blah, blah, blah.

So we've kind of got that inherent, or I hope that we've got that inherent kind of knowing where to look because we've designed these kinds of things.

And so we know where the places are most likely to fail.

... five different names in it.

But, um, upon arriving at the lake, the teens set up their simple, uh, their team, uh, their teens set up their simple A-frame tent and settle in for their first and last night on the lake.

So you know this, this night.

You know, you're finally, you're getting out.

... all of the action took place through the fabric of the tent.

All of the kids were inside the tent with the tent collapsed on top of them while the assailant was outside.

And this is a very simple A-frame, small tent, and there is, it looks like-

There were only kids in there

But today, your deep dive is taking us into a very specific, almost weird structural anomaly.

Because on this particular ship, which is, uh, a newer design from Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, there are these strange, dark, massive A-frame structures protruding right out of the front of the block.

They really completely break the traditional squared off profile of a cargo vessel.

Visually, I mean, they look almost like giant robotic arms just resting against the side of the ship.

It's a fundamental tension between international climate regulations and the actual physical safety of the ships carrying the global economy.

It's a phenomenal case study in how global policy eventually, uh, has to manifest as welded steel.

And to answer your immediate question from earlier, those giant A-frame structures are what Tsuneishi calls the FAIS.

That's the fresh air intake system.

We have, you know, all of these amenities that you may need for your car washing needs." So when it comes to converting a, you know, let's say a single washer on, into a membership program from just the retail side, uh, it's really going to be that consistent messaging and then the value showing, uh, of your plan.

What does your plan offer that maybe your competitors don't? So that's going to be messaging in your, in your A-frames, things that you can add as POP to your kiosks or your kiosk stations, things that you can add to just, like, the packet of, "Hey, welcome.

Here's, you know, our name, or our, uh, you know, social media tags on a dash wipe." Anything like that that's really going to help the customer understand what that value is in your program.

program.Yeah, certainly that's, that's the tip of the spear, for sure, but it's also leading up to that point, identifying what's your unique selling position against your competitor, as you mentioned, and then reinforcing that value and, and that convenience, uh, proposition to the, to the customer while they're on site.