Your next home might be printed
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It reminds me a bit of the pre-fab housing that was build in the UK after WW2 to house the people who'd been made homeless. They were intended to last about 10 years, but were still very common in the 1970's - apparently 8000 are still in use today.
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I'm sure that prices will come down. The article says the cost is $160/sq ft versus the traditional construction process of $200.
A modular home can be purchased for half that cost for the base model, and about the equivalent cost for finished.
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In both cases, what counts is final cost (land, site prep, etc.)
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@Jolly said in Your next home might be printed:
In both cases, what counts is final cost (land, site prep, etc.)
Yes. The prices quoted in my link are for turn-key ready. All you need is the land.
Former partner of mine had a lake house in southern Wisconsin. It was little more than a shack. He tore it down and put up a custom pre-fab for about 75% of the cost of a stick-built.
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The first 3D-printed house in Belgium dates back from 2018.
Currently in Ukrain a project is running to rebuild schools this way. -
More like a busstop than a train station, but still..........
Need a train station shelter in a hurry? You can now print that.
In Arida, Japan, a Japanese architectural firm and 3D-printed house manufacturer partnered with JR-West, a railway network, to build what they claim is the world’s first 3D-printed train station. Assembled in less than six hours between the station’s last train of the night and first train of the following morning, it’s a promising first look at how infrastructure improvements might be done faster and cheaper.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91317868/3d-printed-train-station-japan-6-hours-to-build
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@Mik said in Your next home might be printed:
I hope they last too. Like the idea and it will use a lot less lumber.
But lumber is one of the easiest replenishable materials. The composites the 3d printers are using is not.
