Posted on 03/22/2021 7:04:08 PM PDT by algore
The world's first 3D-printed neighborhood is set for California that will feature 15 eco-friendly homes starting at $595,000. The $15 million project is planned for Rancho Mirage in Coachella Valley and is a collaboration of the real estate group Palari and Mighty Buildings, which expect to complete the neighborhood next year. Mighty Buildings will use its robotics and automation to construct homes, which the firm says can be completed with 95 percent less labor hours and 10 times less waste. Residents of the futuristic housing can move into a single-story home with three bedrooms and two baths or a smaller unit with two bedrooms and one bath.
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In Rancho Mirage that seems like a great price.
The ONLY disgusting use of 3D printers:
Biden and Heelsup will be flying the criminal illegals
first class to their 3D printed new homes, fully paid for
with YOUR TAX MONEY.
“starting at $595,000“
Or get an existing luxurious McMansion by a lake and 30 minutes from a major city: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6909-Grand-Orchard-Walk-Gainesville-GA-30506/83359136_zpid/
2 bedroom, 1 bath starting at $595K. Ouch
“95 percent less labor hours and 10 times less waste.”
So, if they had used standard construction materials and methods the homes would have cost at least $20 million. That is a big savings.
I have friends in the area, and you can get much nicer houses in palm desert area in the 600k price range, let alone 20m. Obama bought a home in rancho mirage for 4.25m
I was just running their formula backwards to show the absurdity of either their claims or their rapacious pricing.
It’s not so much the 3D printing of the house that is expensive. It’s the development fees. In my crap little city it use to cost about $10k for “system development fees” which got you a hook up to the power and water. Now, it’s nearly $100,000 bucks and that’s not even guaranteeing the permits. The expenses will be, site prep, permitting, SDCs, and bribing the bureaucrats. The technology is stupid simple AND cheap.
This is in its absolute infancy. We find ourselves looking at it the same way many viewed flying in the first decade of the Twentieth Century.
It is surely going to be expensive and not as good as a well built home using standard means.
But I see the day when this technology will mature, and what you will be able to get with printing of houses will be astonishing and beautiful. They will be able to do things structurally that are difficult or impossible to do in conventional ways.
I believe it will get to the point that people will someday look back at buildings constructed in the now-conventional manner, and think “How did they ever do that?”
And of course, there will be a whole subculture of hard-core traditionalists, and an industry to support them, to build “the old way”...:)
Because robots are more expensive than Mexican day laborers.
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Because robots are more expensive than Mexican day laborers.
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Damn sausage fingers.
CC
I agree with both of you.
And I suppose there need to be first adopters.
But if Musk has taught us anything it is make new tech cool and better than anything conventional.
I gotta say-Elon Musk used to creep me out a bit, he reminded me of that Bond Villain who used to cry tears of blood...
I have never been a fan of the concept of Tesla (even if think the cars are interesting) because of the government subsidies.
But, boy. What he has done with SpaceX...I give him all the credit and kudos there.
Exactly. Screw that. Give me wood and nails anytime
This would work for Nasa to create buildings on the Moon and then Mars. They could use the 3d technology for a great deal of things in space work. Making parts. Digital food, digital cars. Well it could just happen.
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