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3D Printed House for Cheap in 24 Hours

posted by on Monday April 24 2017, @05:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-by-the-hairs-on-my-3D-printed-chin dept.

Gaaark writes:

A company called Apis Cor has 3D printed a (tiny) house in 24 hours for $10,000, which comes out to about $275/m2.

Reconstructing Buckingham Palace at 77,000 m2 this way would cost only about $21 million. According to a 2010 estimate in The Guardian: "you could build a new energy-efficient replica of the palace for a knock-down £320m", which translates to $552 million.

So: 3D printing the palace would save over a HALF BILLION DOLLARS! Muahahaha (pinkies up!).

Video of the building process.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @09:20PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @09:20PM (#499051)

    Wood-frame housing stands up to earthquakes well when compared to other building methods.

    I wonder if these folks have a formula for those of us on the Pacific Rim, considering the Magnitude 7 events that have pancaked [google.com] concrete structures [google.com] in these parts.
    ...and a configuration that will withstand the Magnitude 8 event that we get every 150 years or so (we're overdue) would be awesome.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0, Redundant) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 24 2017, @10:36PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday April 24 2017, @10:36PM (#499078) Homepage

    If a disaster were to hit San Francisco, I'd rather it be a lethal disease outbreak brought in by refugees and immigrants granted sanctuary by the city -- for it would be a shame if all that classic architecture were destroyed in a quake. The population not so much.

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:28AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday April 25 2017, @04:28AM (#499144) Journal

    Communities composed entirely of Styrofoam™ are already a reality in progressively minded Japan.

    [...] models tested by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) did not merely meet earthquake standards; they remained fully intact after being shaken harder than the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.

    -- https://www.nachi.org/styrofoam-homes.htm [nachi.org]