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: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 25 2017, @05:26AM
There's a reason one installs small tubes into buildings instead of cables. Once a specific cabling standard is obsolete. Another one can just be pulled straight through.
10GBASE-T using Category 6a goes 100 meter and 40GBASE-T goes 30 meter using Category 8. So this is indeed a moving target.