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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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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @08:20AM (2 children)
No one expects a house to last 20 years, let alone 100, so why over-engineer?
Wait what? My house is 140 years old and it's one of the newer ones in my area. What are you building your houses out of? Straw?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday April 25 2017, @09:32AM (1 child)
most houses being built on estates in Australia (and likely, in many other places) are timber-framed, brick veneer, usually built after a knock-down of a house built sometime between 1922 and 1990. Massive building boom after WWI AND WWII, but mostly the WWI houses have already been extensively modified or demolished.
An 'old' house in some areas would be ~50 years old. Many new houses are being built after knocking down 1980's or 1990's houses.
modifying is more expensive, in most cases, than knock-down, rebuild. So, next person might live in your house, but the one after than will almost certainly be knocking it down.
Many 1930's houses are still in liveable, if not good, condition.
Many are ready for the bulldozer.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 25 2017, @01:40PM
Ah - ok. Not straw. Sticks ;)
Everything in Britain is built from bricks, and is built to last. And not even any big bad wolves here!
Houses in britain are sold as either freehold (normal, own the house) or leasehold (you own a mostly-rent-free right to live in the house for X years). X used to be about 99, but many people got upset at how short that was, so it's commonly 999 now.