Clik
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Checkout these 3D Printed homes and buildings: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20150...and-tallest-3d-printed-building-in-china.html
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3D Print Your New Garage? It's Being Done!
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SCscoutguy
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Depending on the cost I could see where this would be good technology for the military. You could quickly build permanent structures in the same amount of time it takes to build a tent city. You could make bunkers out of thicker material etc.
reader2580
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The construction of the walls looks like a joke. Basically the printer just extruded concrete that looks like toothpaste. It is unclear how all the many layers stay together. I can't tell if they used rebar or not.
SCscoutguy
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Did you even read the article or look at the pictures? I would say you didn't by your post.The construction of the walls looks like a joke. Basically the printer just extruded concrete that looks like toothpaste. It is unclear how all the many layers stay together. I can't tell if they used rebar or not.
I was talking to a friend in the Construction Industry - there is a shift coming.
Labor is so expensive that it is making more and more sense to build with more factory built "modules" than pay for the labor on the job-site where manufacturing efficiency just does not exist like it can in a factory setting.
Add in the accelerated pace that everyone wants everything done and speed which the "legos" can go together can help offset the costs of building this way.
Once you get outside of Single Family Homes very few things get built that aren't being built to make someone money. Apartments - Rent, Office Towers - Rent or whatever paper needs to be pushed by the workers inside of it, Factory - Start selling product.... The sooner they go from committing to project to certificate of occupancy the sooner they start making money with the new asset.
Labor is so expensive that it is making more and more sense to build with more factory built "modules" than pay for the labor on the job-site where manufacturing efficiency just does not exist like it can in a factory setting.
Add in the accelerated pace that everyone wants everything done and speed which the "legos" can go together can help offset the costs of building this way.
Once you get outside of Single Family Homes very few things get built that aren't being built to make someone money. Apartments - Rent, Office Towers - Rent or whatever paper needs to be pushed by the workers inside of it, Factory - Start selling product.... The sooner they go from committing to project to certificate of occupancy the sooner they start making money with the new asset.
if you have ever been to china and looked beyond the outside you wouldn't want to live or stay in what they make over there.....how do I know, I have been there and stayed in hotels and looked behind the curtain and was shocked on the shoddy work and construction....yikes
softailgarage
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I'd like to see how they stand up to earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, etc.
if you have ever been to china and looked beyond the outside you wouldn't want to live or stay in what they make over there.....how do I know, I have been there and stayed in hotels and looked behind the curtain and was shocked on the shoddy work and construction....yikes
+1 I've been in hotels and factories many times and I wouldn't want to live there.
little d
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I'd like to see how they stand up to earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, etc.
^^^ This.
I can see where this concept has merit, just like SIP building but, I'll hold my opinion until I see specs on it.
jimgood
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I don't see anything saying those structures would hold up to an earthquake. That would be my biggest concern.