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Plus, it has no cost or scale advantage. The main cost drivers for houses are land purchase cost, material cost and taxes. Labor is significant, too, which 3d p
by 88840-8855 5y ago
Plus, it has no cost or scale advantage. The main cost drivers for houses are land purchase cost, material cost and taxes. Labor is significant, too, which 3d printing is not reducing, because the installation of the machines take more or less the same amount of labor as just building the concrete walls traditionally.
The only benefit of 3d printed buildings are extravagant shapes, forms and curves. This is not relevant to 90% of the population and only might be interesting to luxury buyers.
- regularfry 5y agoInstallation should iterate down to "drive the flatbed with the printer gear up next to the site and press a button". But you're not wrong, there's very little benefit over traditional construction, mainly because of all the things - even during the part of the process the machines can do - that still needs human intervention.