it’s easy to blame regulation as the sole culprit for why we can’t build things fast or cheaply anymore, but that argument misses a deeper truth about eroding industrial capacity. take the vogtle nuclear reactors. they weren’t derailed by the NRC alone, but by failures much closer to the ground: repeated construction-management turnover, an untrained and unstable workforce, a supply chain that effectively had to be rebuilt from scratch, and the decision to start pouring concrete and assembling modules before the designs were even finished. crews made bad welds, improperly poured concrete, delivered out-of-spec modules, and even failed to procure long-lead components on time. the NRC certainly didn’t accelerate timelines, but it would be a mistake to assign all of the blame to the regulator when the core breakdown occurred inside the engineering, procurement, and construction process itself. the real bottleneck is at the EPC level — the firms responsible for coordinating the engineering, procurement, and construction of america’s largest capital projects. this is where our national capacity has eroded. we no longer have the industrial muscle once embodied by builders like henry kaiser, and without simultaneously rebuilding this capability, no amount of deregulation will be enough. the good news is that software and AI now give us the opportunity to rethink this sector. by modernizing the EPC stack — from planning and design to procurement and on-site execution — we can finally deliver complex projects at the speed and quality the moment demands. @unltdindustries is leading that transformation, and we’re proud to support them.