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Posted on 05/09/2018 2:22:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you build it, they will come. And if you 3D-print it, they will come faster, cheaper and more sustainably.
We live in an era of overpopulation and mass housing shortages. Yet we also live in a time of phenomenal digital innovation. On the one hand we have major crises affecting the health, liberty and happiness of billions of people. But look at the other hand, where we have potential for life-changing technological breakthroughs at a rate never before seen on this planet.
Our challenges are vast, but our capabilities to produce solutions are even greater. In the future, we will remember this moment in time as a pivotal one. It is now — not tomorrow, and certainly not five years from now — when technology and innovation are disrupting multiple major industries, including those of housing and construction, at breathless and breakneck speed.
Innovators around the world are hard at work to change the way we design, build and produce our homes, and all of this will result in massive change to the housing status quo. Harnessing the revolutionary power of 3D printing, companies from Russia to China, the U.S. and the Netherlands have already proven that not only can a home be 3D-printed, it can be done cheaply, efficiently and easily.....
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Actually many are using liquid concrete pumped into forms, graphene and other materials. Some of the future materials may resemble Play-doh but will be stronger than current buildings.
My reservations about any kind of foam insulation is that it is like solid gasoline.
Can they 3D-print the new California mandated solar roof?
Soylent housing.
SIP building kits have been around awhile. I looked at them years ago for putting a house on our Hawaii property.
https://innovaecobuildingsystem.com/sip-building-kit-cost/
Use forms? Hardly. Think of robotic gantries laying down “logs” of plastic concrete (toothpaste consistency). The whole idea is to get rid of forms. See: https://youtu.be/wCzS2FZoB-I
I’m mostly interested in solutions.
Not sure of the problems yet, but I certainly love ‘solutions’.
My parents in Minnesota had a house built in 1962 that was solidly built. The contractor did a great job. What was funny was he basically used scrap from the other homes he built to build his own and it was cheaply put together. He lived 4 homes down from us and I was friends with his kids and saw up close how cheaply put together it was.
His balcony was so bad that it had to be replaced due to poor support like the posts were loose. It bounced when people were on it.
I think he was thinking ahead that future builders copied from after they bribed the inspectors.
In the 1980’s my parents moved to Scottsdale, AZ and the homes there were cheap construction. You could push on the drywall and it flexed as it was so thin. The floors were not level. The broom closet door would swing open if it was not tightly shut. This was Scottsdale. My parents said they looked at many homes and they were all alike.
My grandparents bought a home built in 1930 with oak trim, staircase, builtin china cabinets and real 2 x 4 / 2 x 6 / 2 x 8 lumber and planks as flooring and not plywood.
What would a 3d printed home be like? Irritating scents, burn like gas when on fire?
“We live in an era of overpopulation and mass housing shortages.”
baloney.
“We live in an era of overpopulation and mass housing shortages.”
UN agenda 21 and 2030 bull sh@t. They want you in coffin sized apartments.
If it's anything like Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs),
the technology has been around since at least the 1990s
The R-value for SIPs is 30, like living in a thermos bottle.
SIPs do not require interior studs, using only studs to close around the periphery of a panel and to connect them. They are amazingly strong and fast to put together.
“My grandparents bought a home built in 1930 with oak trim, staircase, builtin china cabinets and real 2 x 4 / 2 x 6 / 2 x 8 lumber and planks as flooring and not plywood.”
In 1995 we had heat installed in the family homestead where my parents lived in NY near Buffalo. It had been built in 1830 by ancestors, and heated only by an oil stove in the living room for generations.
Some funding for it was coming from government so they sent an inspector to assure it was worth the time/money they would put in to it. The inspector said the home was better built than most of the new ones he inspected. It’s sad that people build fast and cheap. Building “artists” and true craftsmen are gone forever.
They apparently don't require U.S. citizens either lol.
The article doesn’t give any details. Do these printed homes include plumbing & wiring?
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