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A non-profit just created a 3D printed concrete home in Detroit. It cost over $230,000 although they expect in volume the cost would drop. https://www.detroit
by rmason 3y ago
A non-profit just created a 3D printed concrete home in Detroit. It cost over $230,000 although they expect in volume the cost would drop.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/10/18/detroit-nonprofit-kicks-off-3d-printed-home-build-project/69571636007/ https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/10/18/detroi...
You can buy a pretty nice house in a nice neighborhood in Detroit for under $150,000 and a decent one for $75,000. Both far larger than 1,000 square feet and featuring two car garages as well. So the only market I can see for these homes is government subsidized projects.
- TrainedMonkey 3y agoFirst cars vs horses would be an apt comparison here. Automation had been slowly displacing human labor... the question is when, not if.
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- fragmede 3y agoI can buy a shed from Home Depot for <$1,000 which is $229k less than that concrete home in Detroit if all we want to compare is price. So the question is how good are those $150k and $50k houses? If they're anything like the rest of American housing stock, they have utter shit for sound insulation, andmoft aren't much better for heat/cold insulation. Not that concrete is any good for thermal insulation, but sound insulation is a very underrate but very critical aspect for anything resembling dense housing.
- rsynnott 3y ago> You can buy a pretty nice house in a nice neighborhood in Detroit for under $150,000 and a decent one for $75,000. That’s probably under cost of construction, though, right? Maybe this is just way cheaper in the US than here, somehow, but current all-in cost of construction in Ireland for a one-off house is on the order of 2500eur/sqm, so about 250k eur for a house this size.