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Originally Posted by jammies
3d printing will entirely alter the construction and cost of construction of houses in the next decade. It's likely it'll be cheaper to knock down older houses and build new than to do more than a smidgen of renovation.
Here's a decent video of what can be done already: https://youtu.be/lZh8E6zZdzk |
Extruding walls out of concrete only replaces a tiny percentage of labour/material on a project. A few days work for stud framing and sheathing walls is replaced by setup/takedown and rental of a massive 3-D printer and a continual concrete pour which = expensive.
It’ll never happen either because structural engineers won’t sign off on it and building code and energy code in Canada would take many decades of revisions before anything of the sort would be legal.
Won’t even get into the dozens of components that integrate with the printed form that is the true labour.