Posted on 04/07/2017 1:08:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Building a house completely by hand can be both time-consuming and expensive. A number of home-builders have chosen to automate part of the construction process (i.e. by printing the home's parts) instead.
A new Ukrainian homebuilding startup called Passivdom uses a 3D-printing robot that can print parts for tiny houses. The machine can print the walls, roof, and floor of Passivdom's 380-square-foot model in about eight hours. The windows, doors, plumbing, and electrical systems are then added by a human worker.
When complete, the homes are completely autonomous and mobile, meaning they don't need to connect to external electrical and plumbing systems. Solar energy is stored in a battery connected to the houses, and water is collected and filtered from humidity in the air (or you can pour water into the system yourself). The houses also feature an independent sewage system.
Passivdom's homes, which start at $31,900, are now available for pre-order online in the Ukraine and the US, and the first ones will be delivered later this year.
Check out the homes below....
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Will never be allowed in Illinois -
Unions will not allow- just my opinion
Which will take an additional 6 months ...
However the construction company will still charge $750,000 for it and the bank will generate that much consumer debt on it just because they bribed the right lawmakers. Brilliant system.
Very nice but where’s the bathroom?
4 walls a floor and a roof. Gee big deal.
The bathroom is outside in a trailer.
I will see if I can find a link- been reading on these small house designs for years, just saw fully outfitted bathroom in trailer for a small house design
$80 a square foot for this simple box is not exactly going to leave conventional construction in the dust.
Yeah, but the INK CARTRIDGES cost a million bucks apiece.
I really wish people would get out of this “tiny house” kick. . .
“$80 a square foot for this simple box is not exactly going to leave conventional construction in the dust.”
Each day that a structure is not occupied costs money.
If I could finish a house in three days instead of three months that would save three months of construction costs and start my positive cash flow three months early.
Neither will the cheap labor express.
3D printing is going to be revolutionary for us. I read about cars being made from 3D, so you might make your own house, car and furniture from 3D printing.
The *real* revolution will be when they combine 3-D printing with sexbots.
Talk about your mail-order brides...
That’s a whole house? Our enclosed back porch is bigger than that.
Why should it bother you what people freely choose what to live in and spend their money on?
In many parts of the country, housing has soared to completely insane levels this might be a good way to get wanna-be home owners into a home. It also, by necessity, keep she your possessions under control.
It’s hard to detect exactly what parts are made by the printer. Based on the materials listed in the article and the frame diagram, I’m guessing it’s the frame of the house. All the windows, doors, floors, trim, electrical, plumbing, bath fixtures, appliances, etc are conventional.
If that’s the case, then, honestly, this doesn’t seem like much of an innovation or cost-saving breakthrough. A couple of carpenters could frame a simple box 800 sq ft house in a day or two and framing lumber is cheap.
Watch conventional houses getting built and you see the frame goes up real quickly. It’s what comes after the frame that takes the next nine months.
I am really laughing. Why?
The “greenie weenies” will love this form of house-making.
And where do the raw materials for carbon-fiber materials and 3-D printing come from?
The petrochemical processes in the fossil fuels industry!!! They come out of by-products in the refineries.
It doesn’t. I just am expecting the Greens to start pushing “tiny houses” because we don’t “need” a big house. I’ve lived in Europe on several occasions, and seen the shoeboxes they call houses. Pass.
And why are houses so insanely priced in some areas ? Because Governments won’t allow stuff to be built to satisfy demand, but instead wants to social engineer. . .
You might make the framework and structural members. It’s currently impossible to print electronics. And the printers required for large objects are even larger.
Now, when reliable nanotech manufacturing finally hits, that will change. . . .
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