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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @06:28PM
As predicted in a Culture fan film.
Something Real [youtube.com]
Kasta (a drone) and Reydon (a human) are friends.
Kasta: "Why not build a house like I did?"
Reydon: "Yeah as I recall it took you a whole day."
Kasta: "... well ..."
Reydon: "And did you feel satisfied afterwards?"
Kasta: "No not really. I just knocked it down and built it again."
Reydon: "Exactly. In your own twisted way, you got something out of it a second time."
Kasta: "I got a patio."
While a house represents shelter to a human, a drone treats a house (with patio!) as nothing more than a toy.