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FUTURE LIVING 3D printed homes built in less than 24 hours will ‘be mainstream by 2025’ in UK
The Sun ^ | May 21, 2018 | Sean Keach, Digital Technology and Science Editor

Posted on 05/21/2018 8:25:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

EXPERTS say 3D-printed houses will be "mainstream by 2025", and could put an end to Britain's housing crisis.

A new report details how Brits are less than a decade away from enjoying lower house prices thanks to a robot revolution in the construction of homes.

3D printing, or "additive manufacturing", is a process of layering up a material to build complicated structures.

It works just like regular home printers – but instead of ink, a 3D printer will use materials like plastic or metal.

Using giant 3D printers, it's been proven possible to quickly and cheaply build homes. Sadly the tech is far from mainstream – for now.

"By 2025 we will already see huge changes in the construction industry thanks to technology with drones, AI and 3D printing all becoming commonplace," explains Dr Ian Pearson, a futurologist who produced the report for Colmore Tang Construction.....

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Local News; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 3dprinters; 3dprinting; britain; construction; housing; housingcrisis; liberalagenda; uk; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 05/21/2018 8:25:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I have seen 3d buildings being “printed.”

DEFINITELY the wave of the near future.

Think about it... the printers need maintenance but don’t get tired. They are a bit slow but steady and constant.

Construction as we know it may be gone in a generation, except for maintenance and expensive hand-made homes.


2 posted on 05/21/2018 8:29:48 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
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To: freedumb2003

The cost of building homes is not so much in the construction, but in the permitting fees, the land cost, and the hookups to sewer, water, electricity, and gas.

Mere physical plant is not the major cost anymore.

There are several technologies that can do that relatively cheaply.

Most are not allowed by the zoning codes, unless expensive special applications and approvals are met.


3 posted on 05/21/2018 8:34:23 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Made of a printable kind of concrete, is my expectation:

https://interestingengineering.com/this-10000-3d-printed-concrete-house-took-only-24-hours-to-build

No reason this technique can’t be scaled to any needed level, even if it takes many days or weeks to complete a larger structure.


4 posted on 05/21/2018 8:36:22 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: freedumb2003

I enjoy home repair/improvement.

Doubt I’ll be moving into one, but wondering whether putting in that new dual 125V power outlet will now require skills in plasticworking.


5 posted on 05/21/2018 8:40:45 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Considering the dinky little places the Brits line in, they could do it.


6 posted on 05/21/2018 8:42:41 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We’ll be like Swallows building our nests.


7 posted on 05/21/2018 8:42:50 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I thought factor-built stackable modules were going to be the wave of the future?


8 posted on 05/21/2018 8:43:46 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Get ‘Em Out By Friday”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-TwWnn0dk


9 posted on 05/21/2018 8:44:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marktwain

>>The cost of building homes is not so much in the construction, but in the permitting fees, the land cost, and the hookups to sewer, water, electricity, and gas.

Mere physical plant is not the major cost anymore.<<

That makes sense but I think my observation about doing construction — and maybe how repairs are done — in the future is probably truer than not.

Unless areas do an Uber and just don’t allow them to keep the construction trade open.

Expect to see this take hold in 3rd world countries where once the cost < labor, just like cell phones are EVERYWHERE in Mexico and other countries b/c the cost of a land line are so high.

I think this is disruptive in ways we might not even be able to discern now.


10 posted on 05/21/2018 8:45:27 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
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To: treetopsandroofs

After a new house going up on either side of me at about the same time, I have had my fill of being around home building.

One house is occupied and the other is slated for moving in next month sometime.


11 posted on 05/21/2018 8:46:21 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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12 posted on 05/21/2018 8:46:35 AM PDT by CtBigPat (I was a Tide Pod addict but I'm clean now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All well and good, but humanoid robots will be able to make conventional housing at a slightly higher cost at some point.


13 posted on 05/21/2018 8:46:35 AM PDT by GraceG ("Q is dead, been dead a for a while...")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They better move up that 2025 timeline what with influx of invaders needing housing and a mailbox for their government check.


14 posted on 05/21/2018 8:52:00 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Yo-Yo

I can see the Brits going for that. Stack two and you have a semi, add more and you’ve got apartments.


15 posted on 05/21/2018 8:53:54 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: marktwain

We were looking into purchasing a Modular Home.

Construction cost of the Plan we were looking at came in about $200 a Square Foot delivered to the Building Site.

That didn’t include the poured Foundation, the Setup Crew, hooking up Utilities or any upgrades.

The Builder said to add at least $40 to $50 a Square Foot for all that. The cost of the Lot was additional.


16 posted on 05/21/2018 8:54:38 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Commie is a dead Commie. Cast your Vote Accordingly.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And how long will it take the yobs and lrigs to wreck them?

There is no “housing crisis”. There’s a family crisis. Yobs and their progeny don’t want to work, but want to get housed.


17 posted on 05/21/2018 8:55:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Next they need to print them using a compound that can be vaporized when sprayed with a certain chemical. That way, when you move out, the next guy can just vaporize the house and print a new one with a layout he likes better.


18 posted on 05/21/2018 8:55:53 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; null and void

More on 3d homes.


19 posted on 05/21/2018 8:58:40 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: bigbob

Made of a printable kind of concrete, is my expectation

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Sorry, I just haven’t clicked on any of the links, but this seems like an odd concept to me. Why wouldn’t you just use forms to cast the concrete in? Why would you ‘print’ it, unless you have a complex 3D shape...


20 posted on 05/21/2018 8:59:52 AM PDT by z3n
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