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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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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 1) by anotherblackhat on Monday April 24 2017, @06:29PM (3 children)
Construction costs have very little to do with prices in New York, S.F. or anywhere else for that matter.
Fifty km from a big city prices drop a lot, yet construction costs do not.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Monday April 24 2017, @07:14PM (1 child)
This building has about the equivalent usable space of a square framed building of 18.5 feet on a side. That's a pretty small building – "tiny house" is exactly correct.
By way of comparison, I built, from scratch, a 16'x16' square, 2"x4" construction insulated building, including traditional peaked metal roof, with finished internal walls, floor and ceiling, for just about $5,000.00. Two opposing doors, power and plumbing, filled foam sheet insulation, no windows. You can put together a nice, double-paned window of conventional size for about $100.00.*, I just didn't want any (was building with a stand-alone music studio in mind, and for years, used it instead as a tiny martial arts studio, though it's back to music production again now, as I'm old and worn out and the like.)
The thing about this undertaking is that there were zero labor costs, inasmuch as I did all the work, had plumbing and electrical systems available to connect to, and I already owned the land. Labor is generally a huge component of building something small like this.
Those two things – labor and land – along with the subsequent drain of taxes, inevitably change the cost picture enormously. Additionally, you'll notice the article does not address the land at all, and while they say they "paid for the work", I am very dubious that employing a machine similar to this would come at an insignificant cost. I'm not sure what the electrical and plumbing would have cost if I'd had to call on the utilities, contractors, etc. Montana, where I am, can be pretty loose about what you do with your own stuff on your own land. But you'd have to consider that for a new building of this type, stand-alone.
The main advantages of this building printing process, it seems to me, are speed and (if you consider this an advantage) the ability to make arbitrary shapes. Me, I prefer rectangular rooms, because curves and non 90º angles almost always make you lose space to almost inevitably rectangular furniture and appliances (though the bit about the curved TV matching the wall radius was kind of funny and fortuitous.) But the speed... that's pretty awesome. It took me a month to build my little building, and I worked on it as much as I could. About a quarter of the time was wasted waiting on materials, but that was more of an organizational fail on my part, so perhaps it's not fair to count about a week of that month. You could certainly order everything, assuming you knew what you needed, and not start until it was all there.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday April 24 2017, @08:58PM
Someone I know just bought a pre-fabricated 12' x 20' out-building, somewhat similar to what you describe, for just under $5000. It doesn't have insulation or electric/plumbing installed yet, so that'll be a little extra.
Labor isn't *that* much when things are prefab.
(Score: 1) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Monday April 24 2017, @10:30PM
You are probably right. What effect do you see this as having?
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