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indigenous
2015 Aug 30, 9:35pm
I don't see it as the stuff they are using 3d printing for is the smallest amount of labor. Now if factory houses became acceptable I would think that the price would come down quite a bit as there would not be a profit on top of each trades work. But now they are showing 3d printing for framing which does not contain that much labor.
As customization and customer tolerance to manufactured housing changed, I would see quite a bit of change.
FNWGMOBDVZXDNW
2015 Aug 31, 7:28am
I don't really get the appeal. It looks like the printer is producing walls out of concrete, and the interior is finished of in the traditional manner (sheet rock walls, wood floors, etc.). The shell of the building is pretty cheap. Framing is around 10% of the cost of a finished house or maybe 15% of constrution costs. It's not clear how much this would save, and I don't buy the claims of the 3d printer company.
Tenpoundbass
2015 Aug 31, 8:22am
They have that public pic nic benches made out of recycled plastic look to them.
There's been a lot of talk about 3D concrete printers capable of building houses. China has already done this. But are there any companies in the U.S. producing 3D printed houses today? Is this technology available, coming soon, long off, or just a pipe dream.
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