So would you want to live in a 3D printed home? And if you liked this video, check out "Is Geothermal Heating and Cooling Worth the Cost? Heat Pumps Explained": ua-cam.com/video/PI45yUhUWgk/v-deo.html
Everything about our new technological era is teaching us to do more with less, and at a reduced cost. Digitization and automation are steadily eating at the foundation of the capitalist system. Labor is now adverse to productivity and efficiency in our digitally enabled reality. The 1st industrial revolution created our current reality. The arrival of the digital autonomous era is already rendering it obsolete. The effects are everywhere in our society today. You just need to understand what you are looking at.
your failures is likely due to the narrower nozzle and requirement to heat a filiment instead of just dumping cold cement, and requirement for finer precision. These 3d printed homes can have a lot more error and inaccuracy as the excess will just be removed. And structural support does not have to be uniform. Just in near enough the same pattern and places. No need for high accuracy.
3D printed House is now way cheaper and cost a fraction of the regular House. Socialism: cheap houses for everyone! Capitalist: *celebrating huge price margins and CEO profits*
@@SmallIcebear What is the connection between development and political system? Did turtle bite you or something? And how exactly there's no competition, if houses are already there? Learn capitalism or something. If 2 products exist and they fight for the market - is called competition.
@@SmallIcebear You wrote: "1. Its ECONOMIC system idiot. Capitalism offers an economic incentive for innovation. Socialism does not. " Good morning Idiot! Alex here. Can you tell me - How exactly (why?) capitalism offers an economic incentive for innovation and socialism does not? I understand those words are not yours, since you have no explanation. Please explain the reasoning behind those lousy words. (I'm rather interested in the latter part of the question.) Real estate is a housing market. Sellers are selling houses, based (in an ideal world) on their ability to undercut other people offers and gain profits. Period. If you can build a house cheaper - you will either sell it cheaper; gain higher profits, or have middle-ground between two options. Period. Please use your own reasoning when going to write e an answer.
@@AlexMetslov Capitilism with competition encourages innovation because companies need to create better products in order to get a larger market share and make more money. Also consumers will purchase the best product for the best price resulting in a direct incentive to innovate and improve products or invent new ones. This creates a meritocracy. In a socialist system the government owns the means of production and so there is only one possible group to get your products from. The only incentive for innovation would be that citizens are more likely to elect you if you the government is improving the products that it offers. However, the incentive is not strong because the voters are voting on a million different issues not just how good are the iphone cameras going to be next year. Also, voters are forced to make the subjective decision to decide which representative will innovate better and more efficiently. Its much harder to decide if trump or biden will create more innovation over the next four years, then to just allow everyone to try to make the best possible product and whoever makes the best product will win the sales and get to continue doing what they are doing. The feedback loop in socialism is indirect and slow and the feedback loop in capitilism is fast and direct. In terms of these houses, if you create one cheap house you will probobly just sell it at market price. However, if the market is flooded with cheap housing from a number of different companies, house buyers will buy the cheapest house and housing prices will go down. Or consumers will spend the same amount of money but buy the nicest/biggest/coolest house. Making nicer bigger cooler houses will cut into profit margins. No company can sustain ridiculously high profit margins unless they have a monopoly because a competitor will just offer the same thing for cheaper and win all the market share.
@@johndoe-iu4ms Cool. But the same problem (Lack of innovations and competitions) is guaranteed outcome in capitalism. You might be delusional that every company will have equal opportunities, but in reality there is no need to innovate if you own everything. You just crank prices up and rest of the people struggle to meet ends. (Can you please stop this capitalist = inventions and market?) Also, you completely ignore that socialism will drive be driven by effectiveness. If your country wants to survive, it need to be as effective as possible. As such, there will be thrown tonnes of money into researd and development. (China as example). Of course there is no pure socialist of capitalist country. Capitalist will drive prices up to unaffordable state, when people will have no food, health and education, because of profit (like USA, for example).
It depends on the housing market in each area. It will also depend if the buyer wants simple square rooms or something very custom that better fits the plot of land and needs of the family.
Well, I wouldn't compare it to the standard US wood plus insulation technique, but to a stone or concrete house. with the flexibility printing adds they can and will charge extra as long as there isn't a hard price marcet on printed housing.
I agree, even if it's 1/2 as much, tell me what they paid for the land. If they paid 200k for the land they built it on, okay. If you tell me the property was under that, I what is the gross margin on the build.
to some degree yes, then you have to remember houses that are being built today are basically cheap wood with fake brick cladding to make them look good. These cheap houses that you see on the market these days are designed to last 20-30 years. The 3D printed houses are closer to double clad brick houses that are still standing 50-100 years later that cost a fortune these days to build.
I love the sneaky “when feeding plastic to a 3d printer it creates vocs” implying that concrete printing creates VOCs when it really doesnt at all. Was that an accident or....
It was stated in the video it was the additives to the materials to have the cure faster that were causing the VOCs. I agree, it wouldn't be the concrete itself but if they are using a weird mix of concrete they concocted for the print, it may be.
In Germany, the first ever construction company has been given the green light to sell and 3D print houses. The company is called Peri. Fascinating stuff! Edit: Right, OK, he mentioned it!
@@romank90 honestly I don't get this new trend of pushing small city life blocked in a 50m² appartement... Just leave us in peace. I work from home, I plan to build a house this year, I don't understand this retardness of wanting to forbid single house!
Single houses, if built environmentally friendly can be even better in a near future that high density living spaces. Apart from the quality of life, it may allow for decentralised energy production (solar) and it isn’t unthinkable that soon stationary batteries will get better and cheaper. The combination of solar, battery capacity and an electric vehicle would solve many problems at once. The huge fear of an overloaded network isn’t quite justified in any case.
@@romank90 you can't even listen to music in an apartment, that is why people want houses not apartment you can only sell what people want you can force people like now by high price but society have and have not animosity grows until it explode.
Great analysis of the industry based on your first impressions! My channel is completely dedicated to 3d printed houses and I’ve covered nearly every company competing in this exciting new space!
Very good summary! There is another category for robotic house builders although, the bricklaying robots. For example Hadrian X from Fast Brick Robotics, but there are others also.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency = Real Life I'm waiting for them to create the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division
I found it actually disturbing how happy he seemed each time he mentioned how few workers were needed with this technique. I kept thinking how many jobs would be lost.
@@edenassos What you are saying is those who have no access to a better education and must take whatever jobs they can, which are usually manual labor, just are out of luck and can go starve.
@@jps30 Uh, no access to a better education? As long as you have the internet, you have unlimited access to the largest wealth of knowledge. I'm pretty sure many people even with manual labor jobs have access to the internet. Stop finding excuses, that's a loser's mentality. The opportunities are laying in front of you, if you can't see them, it's on you.
I bought a 1500 square foot home in Oak Harbor WA, for only 145,000 dollars. Hardwood floors, traditional construction, 2 bath, 3 bedroom, big back yard. Beautiful location. So 300K for a printed house same size is ridiculous.
Very underrated comment! If they could combine this with thick inner wall insulation like desert dwellings along with smart house IOT features a lot of people in deserts will indeed seem to be living on the famed planet!
A) What about tall buildings? A must in cities, where the need for housing is greatest. B) What about reinforced concrete? A must here... C) Still not everything printed... In particular, the piping and cabling would take a lot of work... Over here construction workers will easily find ways to stretch that part to take 2 years.
$300,000 is a gross overestimation of the cost to build a house, unless you are including the land cost. Even here in Canada, according to my research, the price would generally be about $200,000 for a three-bedroom house of modest size, and things are always cheaper in the United States than they are here. On another site describing these 3D printed homes, it was stated that small homes for the homeless could be built for around $10,000 each.
5 main questions i have regarding 3d printing house: - the streamline of obtaining a certificate of occupancy based on local regulation - will the walls crack if the area is geologically move by cm each year. - cost of maintenance. - future renovations and expansion of the house - foundation for higher structure and its durability.
Concrete cracks, embedded utilities are hard to repair, concrete walls are hard to repair and remodel, it seems to be a compromised design vs cast concrete walls. Once more practically clad with sheeting and the rest I have doubts its much less trouble than conventional building techniques. Maybe useful for less important structures, like sheds.
I think that putting up walls and roof is the easy part. Heating, plumbing, foundations and sewage are the real problems. Anyone can build a cube with a roof.
If the robot can lay down layers of cement, why not lay down layers of mortar and assemble bricks into traditional masonry? That would be a whole lot more valuable from a homeowner’s perspective than a house with solid concrete walls.
The effeciveness depends on: 1. How much in housing costs are building process? 2. Which materials are available? (Maybe in the area timber or something else will be way cheaper. 3. Do one really want to accept the quality of the solution for the investments?
Designing your own home would be fun about the complaint against recycled plastics build it on a traditional concrete slab in a tent with an air compressor. Collect the compressors liquid runoff through a water condenser and vacuum the freshly built surface with that same compressor
I live in Nairobi, Kenya and with the sheer volume of construction in recent years, the environmental, monetary and human resources(skilled labour costs) we could save from just 25% of future construction being 3d printed is staggering. And that's just housing.
What about heating, ventilation, plumbing and electrical? What are the fire ratings of the walls? Is the roof pre-fabed or printed? What is the durability? What is the general cost per foot? How do they deal with local building codes? What if I bought one and 5 years later wanted a different color for a bed room, is it simple and easy like drywall? Where can one get additional info?
I'm seeing an aweful lot missing from these homes. Ductwork for ventilation, the furnace, electrical components like meters and such to indicate the work was done in the home, to name a few things. To add onto this, flat roofs might work in places that don't have heavy snow or rain but in those regions that do, curved roofs are a must. What about foundation repair as it ages? It's not uncommon here in the midwest to have a need to replace or at least do a good fixing of your foundation after 25-30 years in higher elevation areas and about 1/2 that time in lower (think marshland) homes. If a 3D Printed home with a printing mechanism to do all of these repairs without your intervention would really grab my attention. Purchasing a home is one of the main driving forces for why many 1st world (thinking European + American) folks in the commonwealth are in the hole with debt. While it's not an official metric of the economy, it's certainly a big indicator if folk's lives are either flourishing or diminishing if that makes any sense. I'm hopeful that this technology with grow to be a very common practice in house fabrication, but it's no where near there yet. Unless I see some experts really hammer down from various trades pointing out the benefits and consequences for living in a home of this make vses traditional housing (with tips to improve it would be awesome! I'm thinking Sandy Munro style breakdown here).
8:40 into the video that looks amazing the sidewalk with houses basically.. if they could make that as 2 story homes with balcony's to overlook that view and with solar I think that could be an amazing experience.
$595,000 and that was their cheapest option? They better be mixing gold flakes into the cement for that kind of price, that's ridiculous and defeats the purpose of a 3d printed house, the entire point is it's cheap, affordable, and fast....
To me they clearly need to work on the material used, to make it as low carbon as possible. Also glad insulation was mentioned, because just looking at the video you wouldn't expect the houses to be well insulated. Except the French one, with which I'm familiar : what is "printed" is actually the insulating foam, as a double wall, then concrete is poured in the middle.
Revolutionalizing building technology,my humble request 1.Let me have this technology in Nairobi,Kenya.2.Take my son who have completed secondary education in Kenya and teach him this technology.3.I will provide projects and local raw materials locally.
Love the technology and love the idea of fast, inexpensive housing options that are environmentally friendly. BUT: It's hard for me to understand how a 3D printed home at a price of $450K is a good deal --especially when that's the average price of a home in that area. Also: What percentage of the population has nearly half a million dollars to invest in a house?
It's more like there is no competition, and some people want to get ahead of the line. There is the chance that the price never goes below though but tje durability goes up or something. In the end this has to be more beneficial in some way, but you gotta wait to see what happens after they recover some of their investment by selling to people who can pay more to get these houses first.
Waste is a huge factor in construction but I don't see people paying for 3D printing unless it becomes much cheaper. Looks like its only structural work that's carried out so have a fun life without power and water.
If it's cheaper, stronger, better in every way, I don't see why anyone would pass a printed house. This could be the new standard, unless some big companies oppose it.
Too bad at these prices most people won't be able to afford a house like this. At the moment it's nearly impossible to find a home for sale in Amsterdam for less than 400.000 euro's, unless you want a bidding war competing with 200 other interested parties.
I dont know if I would want to live in one of those 3D printed houses. I dont know if they have basements - I'm already living in a trailer park and dont want to hide in the ditch if a tornado hits - and some of those roofs looked flat. The last time I lived in a flat roofed trailer, I was a little kid but I remembered the roof kept leaking and my dad just kept trying to put tar on it. I have to admit my current trailer roof is weirdly shaped with the kitchen end having a taller roof than the end where my bedroom and bathroom is. I like the thought of growing pet friendly plants on my roof but for now, I'm too broke to do a whole lot to change my life. I'm hoping investing with Stash will help me a little and hopefully allow me to buy a computer for a job I want to try online.
If I wanted a concrete house I'd use polystyrene construction forms and have the house poured. But concrete is not a good material for an earthquake zone. Whereas wood frame buildings will sway in an earthquake, concrete just breaks up.
This was informative and helpful. I'm interested in living in a 3D printed home, so I hope you'll keep delivering videos related to this topic. I'd like to see a video that covers if, when, and how to get a home 3D printed in your US state (i.e. where you live).
300k for a house that's half price...so 600k for a house...you would have to be a millionaire 8x over to afford that in my country. The housing prices in America are atrocious
there is nothing environmentally friendly about a massive electrically powered 3d printer building a house as opposed to food powered people doing it. that seems obvious. This doesn't solve any problem other than being able to fire construction workers.
How do they add utilities to a 3Dp house if it's all cement? How do they remodel or add-on to one in the future? How do they keep all those flat roofs from rotting or degrading? Will any of these designs work in areas with earthquakes or tornadoes? And I can only imagine they will focus on plastering/smoothing out the interior walls after the fact as the ribbed wall would cause problems for a lot of devices and furniture.
Wait! I want to question the statement about the 1,400 sq ft house for $300,000 being half the cost for the area. At the presumed $600,000 for a standard house, that would be an extremely high-cost area--prime New York or San Francisco maybe. Tell me what the standup cost for that 1,400' house would be without the lot cost included in Kansas City or Indianapolis or Atlanta in a typical neighborhood.
I can't help but think the cross-section of the walls of these buildings don't look very structurally sound. Is there metal reinforcement placed into in the concrete? Thin concrete on its own is weak AF
First 3-D printed house in the US? I swear there was already a company doing this for people a number of years ago. I recall most of the designs being circular. Regardless, I love the concept of 3-D printed houses; I feel like there's a lot more flexibility in design. As a consumer, the reduced cost would be great for me, but I worry about the impact it would have on human construction workers.
Cool technology, I hope the prices come down over time. Side note: I think I’d actually pay a bit more for a house *without* a swimming pool. It would make me nervous with kids, and I wouldn’t want to do all the maintenance regardless.
Did anyone mentioned the usage of this in Catastrophe areas? Same for Refugee-camps close to homelands. 3D printed simple buildings, is clearly better than tents!
There is no way you are going to beat a pre nailed timber frame x claded house. Try your hardest. All the past attempts have resolved back to this construction method. Fully completed turn key builds for these houses are selling for $750 USD per square meter by project builders.
I think this sort of technology is very promissing. Housing construction is ripe for disruption and the general cost of housing has got totaly out of control.I'm watching this development closely.
And even more people are out of already shrinking jobs. At a certain point these things really need to be considered. I’m not saying that we should stall innovation because people will lose work, but construction is one of the LAST higher paying work for people with less than a 4 year degree. This only makes things worse, in my opinion.
3D printing is still used for single family homes mostly short one floor houses. They will really become economic and environment friendly when the 3d printing is used for mass production of apartment buildings which use less material, energy and land to make more homes for more people and families.
No, you won't be a stationary human nomore with extreme oppressors around you when these things come out accurate that it build what you want fast, Everyone will be floating with they 3d printer everywhere all over the planet, exploring and learning it finally for ourself with no limits on how to do so and when we all want to chill we just print a home whereever we at, break it down in the morning, and get back to exploring living our best exploring life, learning new ways to advance our species life span would be next, as they only focus on this now pushing vaccines only and not our newest life saving technology that could be advanced in years if it's studied asap by the whole world . #thehumansfinallyadvancing. #theydoneletthehumansinthedoor .
Why are we waiting for 3d printed houses to make housing more affordable? You can build a house by hand out of free materials using mud, sand, and rocks...the way people did for millenia. That alone would make housing affordable. No need for robots.
So would you want to live in a 3D printed home? And if you liked this video, check out "Is Geothermal Heating and Cooling Worth the Cost? Heat Pumps Explained": ua-cam.com/video/PI45yUhUWgk/v-deo.html
Another great video
Thanks
Everything about our new technological era is teaching us to do more with less, and at a reduced cost. Digitization and automation are steadily eating at the foundation of the capitalist system. Labor is now adverse to productivity and efficiency in our digitally enabled reality. The 1st industrial revolution created our current reality. The arrival of the digital autonomous era is already rendering it obsolete. The effects are everywhere in our society today. You just need to understand what you are looking at.
Seems like a great idea except, what would all the unemployed construction workers do?
So what about the fumes?
How long do they last?
I would live in one. How do they put things in the walls like electrical wiring and plumbing?
If they get as many failed prints as I do, there will be a whole neighborhood of unfinished and messed up houses
I'm sure the workers are on their toes with their phone ready in case something does go awry, and they can hit a panic stop button 😄
lol you need a better print bed
@@Qui-9 Not to mention it looks like at least one of the workers is 24/7 watching the print.
What printer do you have, Federico?
your failures is likely due to the narrower nozzle and requirement to heat a filiment instead of just dumping cold cement, and requirement for finer precision. These 3d printed homes can have a lot more error and inaccuracy as the excess will just be removed. And structural support does not have to be uniform. Just in near enough the same pattern and places. No need for high accuracy.
3D printing saves on material and labor costs so it is cheaper!
**Still prices it at average market rates**
3D printed House is now way cheaper and cost a fraction of the regular House.
Socialism: cheap houses for everyone!
Capitalist: *celebrating huge price margins and CEO profits*
@@SmallIcebear What is the connection between development and political system? Did turtle bite you or something?
And how exactly there's no competition, if houses are already there?
Learn capitalism or something. If 2 products exist and they fight for the market - is called competition.
@@SmallIcebear
You wrote: "1. Its ECONOMIC system idiot. Capitalism offers an economic incentive for innovation. Socialism does not. "
Good morning Idiot! Alex here.
Can you tell me - How exactly (why?) capitalism offers an economic incentive for innovation and socialism does not? I understand those words are not yours, since you have no explanation. Please explain the reasoning behind those lousy words. (I'm rather interested in the latter part of the question.)
Real estate is a housing market. Sellers are selling houses, based (in an ideal world) on their ability to undercut other people offers and gain profits. Period.
If you can build a house cheaper - you will either sell it cheaper; gain higher profits, or have middle-ground between two options. Period.
Please use your own reasoning when going to write e an answer.
@@AlexMetslov Capitilism with competition encourages innovation because companies need to create better products in order to get a larger market share and make more money. Also consumers will purchase the best product for the best price resulting in a direct incentive to innovate and improve products or invent new ones. This creates a meritocracy. In a socialist system the government owns the means of production and so there is only one possible group to get your products from. The only incentive for innovation would be that citizens are more likely to elect you if you the government is improving the products that it offers. However, the incentive is not strong because the voters are voting on a million different issues not just how good are the iphone cameras going to be next year. Also, voters are forced to make the subjective decision to decide which representative will innovate better and more efficiently. Its much harder to decide if trump or biden will create more innovation over the next four years, then to just allow everyone to try to make the best possible product and whoever makes the best product will win the sales and get to continue doing what they are doing. The feedback loop in socialism is indirect and slow and the feedback loop in capitilism is fast and direct.
In terms of these houses, if you create one cheap house you will probobly just sell it at market price. However, if the market is flooded with cheap housing from a number of different companies, house buyers will buy the cheapest house and housing prices will go down. Or consumers will spend the same amount of money but buy the nicest/biggest/coolest house. Making nicer bigger cooler houses will cut into profit margins. No company can sustain ridiculously high profit margins unless they have a monopoly because a competitor will just offer the same thing for cheaper and win all the market share.
@@johndoe-iu4ms Cool.
But the same problem (Lack of innovations and competitions) is guaranteed outcome in capitalism. You might be delusional that every company will have equal opportunities, but in reality there is no need to innovate if you own everything. You just crank prices up and rest of the people struggle to meet ends. (Can you please stop this capitalist = inventions and market?)
Also, you completely ignore that socialism will drive be driven by effectiveness. If your country wants to survive, it need to be as effective as possible. As such, there will be thrown tonnes of money into researd and development. (China as example).
Of course there is no pure socialist of capitalist country.
Capitalist will drive prices up to unaffordable state, when people will have no food, health and education, because of profit (like USA, for example).
$300k is insanely expensive for what you're getting with that house.
It depends on the housing market in each area. It will also depend if the buyer wants simple square rooms or something very custom that better fits the plot of land and needs of the family.
Well, I wouldn't compare it to the standard US wood plus insulation technique, but to a stone or concrete house. with the flexibility printing adds they can and will charge extra as long as there isn't a hard price marcet on printed housing.
Agreed, though as others have noted, prices vary by area. The area where that house is... people are idiots to pay that much.
I agree, even if it's 1/2 as much, tell me what they paid for the land. If they paid 200k for the land they built it on, okay. If you tell me the property was under that, I what is the gross margin on the build.
to some degree yes, then you have to remember houses that are being built today are basically cheap wood with fake brick cladding to make them look good. These cheap houses that you see on the market these days are designed to last 20-30 years. The 3D printed houses are closer to double clad brick houses that are still standing 50-100 years later that cost a fortune these days to build.
The possibilities are so endless and exciting. Can't wait to see how far this goes.
I’ve covered over a dozen 3d printed construction companies you can dive into
I love the sneaky “when feeding plastic to a 3d printer it creates vocs” implying that concrete printing creates VOCs when it really doesnt at all. Was that an accident or....
It was stated in the video it was the additives to the materials to have the cure faster that were causing the VOCs. I agree, it wouldn't be the concrete itself but if they are using a weird mix of concrete they concocted for the print, it may be.
In Germany, the first ever construction company has been given the green light to sell and 3D print houses. The company is called Peri. Fascinating stuff!
Edit: Right, OK, he mentioned it!
Yes I did a video on the peri house in Germany, it is the most innovative in the world!
sure, lets make more car-dependent suburbs instead if high-dencity low-footprint areas. The dream land of FDP - cars and highways everywhere
@@romank90 honestly I don't get this new trend of pushing small city life blocked in a 50m² appartement...
Just leave us in peace.
I work from home, I plan to build a house this year, I don't understand this retardness of wanting to forbid single house!
Single houses, if built environmentally friendly can be even better in a near future that high density living spaces. Apart from the quality of life, it may allow for decentralised energy production (solar) and it isn’t unthinkable that soon stationary batteries will get better and cheaper. The combination of solar, battery capacity and an electric vehicle would solve many problems at once.
The huge fear of an overloaded network isn’t quite justified in any case.
@@romank90 you can't even listen to music in an apartment, that is why people want houses not apartment you can only sell what people want you can force people like now by high price but society have and have not animosity grows until it explode.
Great analysis of the industry based on your first impressions! My channel is completely dedicated to 3d printed houses and I’ve covered nearly every company competing in this exciting new space!
wondered if you were going to show up here...lol
Very good summary! There is another category for robotic house builders although, the bricklaying robots. For example Hadrian X from Fast Brick Robotics, but there are others also.
This exists since long but never defeated the Mexican workers... The technicians required to set it up probably cost 5x more than a worker
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency = Real Life
I'm waiting for them to create the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division
It's already in action, have you seen lumber prices?
🤣 Marvel jokes
That’s a mouthful, I hope their working on that
I’d like to see these techniques combined with the Earthship strategies and techniques.
Yes!
earthships contain alot of "trash" in the walls
I found it actually disturbing how happy he seemed each time he mentioned how few workers were needed with this technique. I kept thinking how many jobs would be lost.
Get new jobs, if you can't adapt, you are out. Simple. Stop blaming technology. Next, what have YOU done for society?
@@edenassos What you are saying is those who have no access to a better education and must take whatever jobs they can, which are usually manual labor, just are out of luck and can go starve.
@@jps30 Uh, no access to a better education? As long as you have the internet, you have unlimited access to the largest wealth of knowledge. I'm pretty sure many people even with manual labor jobs have access to the internet. Stop finding excuses, that's a loser's mentality. The opportunities are laying in front of you, if you can't see them, it's on you.
There will always be new jobs. And if you're not good at anything useful to society then it is not anyone's fault but you.
Theres a shortage of skilled labor sooo
I bought a 1500 square foot home in Oak Harbor WA, for only 145,000 dollars. Hardwood floors, traditional construction, 2 bath, 3 bedroom, big back yard. Beautiful location. So 300K for a printed house same size is ridiculous.
I don't think it's a coincidence Matt posted this video on Star Wars day. Personally, I welcome my new Tatooine domicile. May The 4th Be With You.
Very underrated comment! If they could combine this with thick inner wall insulation like desert dwellings along with smart house IOT features a lot of people in deserts will indeed seem to be living on the famed planet!
And during the month/moon of the Jedi
A) What about tall buildings? A must in cities, where the need for housing is greatest.
B) What about reinforced concrete? A must here...
C) Still not everything printed... In particular, the piping and cabling would take a lot of work... Over here construction workers will easily find ways to stretch that part to take 2 years.
$300,000 is a gross overestimation of the cost to build a house, unless you are including the land cost. Even here in Canada, according to my research, the price would generally be about $200,000 for a three-bedroom house of modest size, and things are always cheaper in the United States than they are here. On another site describing these 3D printed homes, it was stated that small homes for the homeless could be built for around $10,000 each.
If they built it in a way where it could scale upwards per floor
This could build insta apartments for many people to live in
5 main questions i have regarding 3d printing house:
- the streamline of obtaining a certificate of occupancy based on local regulation
- will the walls crack if the area is geologically move by cm each year.
- cost of maintenance.
- future renovations and expansion of the house
- foundation for higher structure and its durability.
Concrete cracks, embedded utilities are hard to repair, concrete walls are hard to repair and remodel, it seems to be a compromised design vs cast concrete walls. Once more practically clad with sheeting and the rest I have doubts its much less trouble than conventional building techniques.
Maybe useful for less important structures, like sheds.
"This will create unemployment" - So lets go back to the stone age! Can't u even think about people needing cheap houses?
$300K is stupid high cost for 1400sf house! Including the elevated cost of material at the moment in Oklahoma or Texas you can get it built for $100K.
I think that putting up walls and roof is the easy part. Heating, plumbing, foundations and sewage are the real problems. Anyone can build a cube with a roof.
If the robot can lay down layers of cement, why not lay down layers of mortar and assemble bricks into traditional masonry? That would be a whole lot more valuable from a homeowner’s perspective than a house with solid concrete walls.
The effeciveness depends on:
1. How much in housing costs are building process?
2. Which materials are available? (Maybe in the area timber or something else will be way cheaper.
3. Do one really want to accept the quality of the solution for the investments?
$300k just for the construction of a 1400 square foot house? That's crazy expensive. Does that price include $200k of land?
Designing your own home would be fun about the complaint against recycled plastics build it on a traditional concrete slab in a tent with an air compressor. Collect the compressors liquid runoff through a water condenser and vacuum the freshly built surface with that same compressor
I live in Nairobi, Kenya and with the sheer volume of construction in recent years, the environmental, monetary and human resources(skilled labour costs) we could save from just 25% of future construction being 3d printed is staggering. And that's just housing.
4:10 reminds me of this short story in middle school about a house living on after its owners died in a nuclear apocalypse
What about heating, ventilation, plumbing and electrical? What are the fire ratings of the walls? Is the roof pre-fabed or printed? What is the durability? What is the general cost per foot? How do they deal with local building codes? What if I bought one and 5 years later wanted a different color for a bed room, is it simple and easy like drywall? Where can one get additional info?
Make a video on Ecosuru Pump Primer. It was in the ad, I'm intrigued.
I never gonna see those in my country because we only build using bricks not entire wall made of cement, that keeps the cost low.
Next step: 3D printed human being. We're almost there.
its interesting, but the price point is disappointing, and you did not talk about the labor disruption that this will cause as it gains acceptance
I'm seeing an aweful lot missing from these homes. Ductwork for ventilation, the furnace, electrical components like meters and such to indicate the work was done in the home, to name a few things. To add onto this, flat roofs might work in places that don't have heavy snow or rain but in those regions that do, curved roofs are a must. What about foundation repair as it ages? It's not uncommon here in the midwest to have a need to replace or at least do a good fixing of your foundation after 25-30 years in higher elevation areas and about 1/2 that time in lower (think marshland) homes. If a 3D Printed home with a printing mechanism to do all of these repairs without your intervention would really grab my attention. Purchasing a home is one of the main driving forces for why many 1st world (thinking European + American) folks in the commonwealth are in the hole with debt. While it's not an official metric of the economy, it's certainly a big indicator if folk's lives are either flourishing or diminishing if that makes any sense. I'm hopeful that this technology with grow to be a very common practice in house fabrication, but it's no where near there yet. Unless I see some experts really hammer down from various trades pointing out the benefits and consequences for living in a home of this make vses traditional housing (with tips to improve it would be awesome! I'm thinking Sandy Munro style breakdown here).
Gonna get me one of them Mars vase houses. Perfect for someone who doesn't know why people live in houes.
3D printing is seriously underrated.
That price is crazy. You can get much more built the traditional way.
It wouldn't be an interstellar trip, it'd be an interplanetary one
Ya, you say cost is cut buy 35%, but the Texas company is charging the same price as for a new home. Now That's bullcrap.
8:40 into the video that looks amazing the sidewalk with houses basically.. if they could make that as 2 story homes with balcony's to overlook that view and with solar I think that could be an amazing experience.
Here in INDIA , IIT MADRAS ALMUNI had built 3d house at much lesser costs!
$595,000 and that was their cheapest option? They better be mixing gold flakes into the cement for that kind of price, that's ridiculous and defeats the purpose of a 3d printed house, the entire point is it's cheap, affordable, and fast....
To me they clearly need to work on the material used, to make it as low carbon as possible.
Also glad insulation was mentioned, because just looking at the video you wouldn't expect the houses to be well insulated. Except the French one, with which I'm familiar : what is "printed" is actually the insulating foam, as a double wall, then concrete is poured in the middle.
That’s not a “printer.”
It’s a sculptor. A printer writes texts with ink on a flat paper or cardboard.
Revolutionalizing building technology,my humble request 1.Let me have this technology in Nairobi,Kenya.2.Take my son who have completed secondary education in Kenya and teach him this technology.3.I will provide projects and local raw materials locally.
3D printing of homes is still too damnned expensive ! The price shuts out most people who desire home ownership
Love the technology and love the idea of fast, inexpensive housing options that are environmentally friendly. BUT: It's hard for me to understand how a 3D printed home at a price of $450K is a good deal --especially when that's the average price of a home in that area. Also: What percentage of the population has nearly half a million dollars to invest in a house?
It's more like there is no competition, and some people want to get ahead of the line. There is the chance that the price never goes below though but tje durability goes up or something. In the end this has to be more beneficial in some way, but you gotta wait to see what happens after they recover some of their investment by selling to people who can pay more to get these houses first.
Self Constructing House is one step closer to become Terran.
Organic Material Based House is one step closer to become Orokin.
Waste is a huge factor in construction but I don't see people paying for 3D printing unless it becomes much cheaper. Looks like its only structural work that's carried out so have a fun life without power and water.
So they figured out how to make a $500,000 house for $1,000 and they're still charging $500,000 for it big huge contribution to humanity their guys
If it's cheaper, stronger, better in every way, I don't see why anyone would pass a printed house.
This could be the new standard, unless some big companies oppose it.
Too bad at these prices most people won't be able to afford a house like this.
At the moment it's nearly impossible to find a home for sale in Amsterdam for less than 400.000 euro's, unless you want a bidding war competing with 200 other interested parties.
I would be worried about how temperature extremes would affect the structure.
I would love one when you consider how short wood lasts in a house. From fires to termits. If I ever build another house it will be concrete
I dont know if I would want to live in one of those 3D printed houses. I dont know if they have basements - I'm already living in a trailer park and dont want to hide in the ditch if a tornado hits - and some of those roofs looked flat. The last time I lived in a flat roofed trailer, I was a little kid but I remembered the roof kept leaking and my dad just kept trying to put tar on it. I have to admit my current trailer roof is weirdly shaped with the kitchen end having a taller roof than the end where my bedroom and bathroom is. I like the thought of growing pet friendly plants on my roof but for now, I'm too broke to do a whole lot to change my life. I'm hoping investing with Stash will help me a little and hopefully allow me to buy a computer for a job I want to try online.
If I wanted a concrete house I'd use polystyrene construction forms and have the house poured. But concrete is not a good material for an earthquake zone. Whereas wood frame buildings will sway in an earthquake, concrete just breaks up.
Lowering labor costs by lowering workers is actually bad, not good. People need jobs so they can feed their families.
Just a correction, RepRap invented DIY 3d printing.
How many brickies are getting heart palpitations watching this video
Lower materials cost, lower labor cost, faster building time, cost the same or more than traditional building. This doesn't add up for me.
This was informative and helpful. I'm interested in living in a 3D printed home, so I hope you'll keep delivering videos related to this topic. I'd like to see a video that covers if, when, and how to get a home 3D printed in your US state (i.e. where you live).
Everywhere else: $500,000 for this printed house and people lose jobs
China: $5,000 for this house while we lift 100 million people out of poverty
300k for a house that's half price...so 600k for a house...you would have to be a millionaire 8x over to afford that in my country. The housing prices in America are atrocious
At 8:20 : going from 160 to 8 workers seems to be more because of robotics (in general) then just 3d printing...
costs less to build, but still too expensive for the common person.
there is nothing environmentally friendly about a massive electrically powered 3d printer building a house as opposed to food powered people doing it. that seems obvious. This doesn't solve any problem other than being able to fire construction workers.
How do they add utilities to a 3Dp house if it's all cement? How do they remodel or add-on to one in the future? How do they keep all those flat roofs from rotting or degrading? Will any of these designs work in areas with earthquakes or tornadoes? And I can only imagine they will focus on plastering/smoothing out the interior walls after the fact as the ribbed wall would cause problems for a lot of devices and furniture.
I cant believe that with all they could do with design of a 3D printed house, they printed a lame suburbian house like that.
Wait! I want to question the statement about the 1,400 sq ft house for $300,000 being half the cost for the area. At the presumed $600,000 for a standard house, that would be an extremely high-cost area--prime New York or San Francisco maybe. Tell me what the standup cost for that 1,400' house would be without the lot cost included in Kansas City or Indianapolis or Atlanta in a typical neighborhood.
I thought they would be cheaper but it looks like they are way more expensive than conventional homes
I can't help but think the cross-section of the walls of these buildings don't look very structurally sound. Is there metal reinforcement placed into in the concrete? Thin concrete on its own is weak AF
First 3-D printed house in the US? I swear there was already a company doing this for people a number of years ago. I recall most of the designs being circular. Regardless, I love the concept of 3-D printed houses; I feel like there's a lot more flexibility in design. As a consumer, the reduced cost would be great for me, but I worry about the impact it would have on human construction workers.
3D Concrete Homes will be the norm in 3 to 5 years from now
Soon 3d printers will do all the other essential parts too, the wiring, insulation, windows, painting etc and unsupervised..
Cool technology, I hope the prices come down over time.
Side note: I think I’d actually pay a bit more for a house *without* a swimming pool. It would make me nervous with kids, and I wouldn’t want to do all the maintenance regardless.
Gawd , house building prices are high on the US !!!
You can have hyperadobe homes of similair kind wich doesn't even need any high tech printers and utilyzes recycled plastics.
Did anyone mentioned the usage of this in Catastrophe areas?
Same for Refugee-camps close to homelands.
3D printed simple buildings, is clearly better than tents!
Repair? Repair robot? Life span? We use asphalt shingles. Tar. The real stuff. You make a house out of cereal crumbs and your resale is nothing.
There is no way you are going to beat a pre nailed timber frame x claded house. Try your hardest. All the past attempts have resolved back to this construction method. Fully completed turn key builds for these houses are selling for $750 USD per square meter by project builders.
I think this sort of technology is very promissing. Housing construction is ripe for disruption and the general cost of housing has got totaly out of control.I'm watching this development closely.
...and we're eliminating jobs while printing houses for low income workers?
So how are they supposed to afford to buy them...?
lmaooooo wtf is that price.... "rEvOlUtIoN" my ass luuuul
Crazy how die to human rights and the mass accessibility of energy that it costs less to have a house make itself than to pay someone
What is the comparison between this and homes manufactured in a factory and assembled on site in modules?
It's 3D printed walls not houses.
And even more people are out of already shrinking jobs. At a certain point these things really need to be considered. I’m not saying that we should stall innovation because people will lose work, but construction is one of the LAST higher paying work for people with less than a 4 year degree. This only makes things worse, in my opinion.
300k for that?? Here in Missouri you could buy a bigger house for half that.
As far as carbon emissions, what is the impact of 20x fewer people driving to each job site?
3D printing is still used for single family homes mostly short one floor houses. They will really become economic and environment friendly when the 3d printing is used for mass production of apartment buildings which use less material, energy and land to make more homes for more people and families.
What about the container houses that are popping up on youtube here over the past few years?
Is this the technology that will one day become a replicator you know a box that looks like a microwave but it makes anything you push the button for
and after 20-30 years when the plastic gets brittle from all the sun beaten heat work hardening it and you need to replace your entire exterior?
No, you won't be a stationary human nomore with extreme oppressors around you when these things come out accurate that it build what you want fast, Everyone will be floating with they 3d printer everywhere all over the planet, exploring and learning it finally for ourself with no limits on how to do so and when we all want to chill we just print a home whereever we at, break it down in the morning, and get back to exploring living our best exploring life, learning new ways to advance our species life span would be next, as they only focus on this now pushing vaccines only and not our newest life saving technology that could be advanced in years if it's studied asap by the whole world . #thehumansfinallyadvancing.
#theydoneletthehumansinthedoor .
Utilizing this for only single-family homes is such a waste...
I mean they are cool but for the size of the house in the US those houses are extreamly expensive....
Why are we waiting for 3d printed houses to make housing more affordable? You can build a house by hand out of free materials using mud, sand, and rocks...the way people did for millenia. That alone would make housing affordable. No need for robots.
It is a shame the homes are sooo small
Great video! 3D Printed Architect is the future!
Please print a houses of plastic also with the 3d printer machine ..
Will these houses would be able to withstand during natural calamities like earth quake...landslide...flooding...cloud burst....cyclone