3D printing is the future of home building, perhaps of building in general. This home was built in just 28 hours versus about a month. Print times will speed up over time and you can produce 1 home per day. Imagine using this technology in poor and rural areas, for disaster relief and other emergency relief and survival scenarios. 3D printing an entire home sounds like science fiction, but I can assure you it’s very real, and the structures are safe and sturdy.
3D Printed Home Technology
The technology is not new, it’s been perfected over the last decade or so as companies have worked on improving the tech to bring it to market. The 3D printing tech uses a mixture of concrete specially formulated to be distributed and applied through specially designed hoses and nozzles to lay the concrete down in a spiraling pattern building layer upon layer forming the walls. Afterward workers will add wiring, plumbing, fixtures and outlets for water, power and septic systems.
This is a game changer for poor and poverty stricken families living all over the world, for disaster relief and survival scenarios, as well as off grid living.
Off grid living? How can 3d printing be used for living off the grid?
Inexpensive housing. Imagine adobe homes built with this technology using the clay and earth from your own land. It’s possible in many desert areas and many other rural areas as well. If you’ve looking to build a traditional ranch style home, and cut your cost by 15% per square foot, 3D printing will do it, and those costs will continue to fall as the technology is adopted throughout the country and the world at large.
Off Grid Community
Imagine building an entire off grid community of homes. Within 30 days you could have 30 homes built! 30 families could be living on a large 100+ acre estate with a community garden and farm growing food for all off grid community members. 30 homes with an average of 3-4 people per home, parents and kids, and you’re looking at 90 to 120 people to start your off grid community. Add some solar panels and a wind turbine, a composting septic system and you have an inexpensive off grid home.
Housing for the Homeless and Poor
You can build large housing communities for poor communities, making the dream of home ownership more realistic and within the reach of most people as costs to build come down. Labor is a huge expense, sometimes around 50% of the cost to build a home. Plumbers, electricians, concrete workers, and finishers, carpenters and other construction workers will still have jobs. because currently the 3D tech only prints the walls. All the fixtures, wiring, plumbing etc., still need to be installed.
This is amazing technology and will go on to build homes for millions of folks who need low cost housing.
The world need technology like this.
We all need this.
Shelter, water, food. Those are the 3 basic things everyone needs to survive.
3D printing is the technology that will make that possible, less expensive and more affordable for everyone.
And that is a very good thing!
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