Posted on 04/28/2014 3:38:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Very cool technology.
A different video without all the fluff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yv-IWdSdns
Thats cool
The entire thing was formed and poured in one day.
There have been lots of revolutionary building systems. (Snap together houses. Metal houses. Pounded earth.) But if the building codes aren’t written for them you can’t use them. The building codes are all written with 1940’s ideas.
Where will the illegals work if this product/process gets developed?
Is this printer racist?
I’d like to look at straw bale building, but as you say, how can you get it approved? Have you heard of it?
cool stuff...now what to do with all of those construction workers...
IIRC there are still places in this country where there are no building codes, doubt that will last much longer though.
(cool stuff...now what to do with all of those construction workers...)
Enroll them into a training program conducted by HUD, and teach them English as a second language.
Never heard of it. After a 1985 hurricane where the only houses destroyed were not built to the existing code and had been illegally signed-off by the “inspectors” they re-wrote the one three-ring binder into 12 three ring binders. The code is so detailed it’s virtually impossible to either know or follow. Also, companies paid to have their products actually written into the code. So it now reads, must use a hurricane fastener similar to the pictured Acme 2199. To get anything different approved is impossible. The code office won’t take the chance of approving it for fear it won’t work and they’ll be blamed.
Aw, these guys always suck you in. Sure, the printer’s cheap, but just try replacing the ink cartridges.
I was going to link the earlier thread but saw that you posted the same earlier.
You must mean concrete cartridges.
Great technology. That’s the plus. The minus? Getting it approved. Here is my top 10 list of the opponents:
1. The Unions.
2. The Democrats.
3. Every single agency in the U.S. that issues building permits.
4. Architects.
5. The IRS
6. Anyone who works in the building trades.
7. Anyone in the lumber industry.
8. John McCain and his best buddy Hillary.
9. Every single Keynesian economist in the world.
10. PETA.
Tell me again why we need millions of illegal aliens to work home construction.
Does the printer put REBAR in the concrete? Because if you don’t get some rebar in there, you’re concrete is much weaker than it should be.
“The building codes are all written with 1940’s ideas.”
Yes indeed. And one of those ideas is to keep the trade unions employed and use the city muscle to do so. The trade unions have vigorously impeded new labor saving technology in home construction.
Lots of them in New Mexico.
Here’s a link to some uTube info: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=straw+bale+house+construction
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