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I keep seeing this stuff and it looks interesting but I have yet to see a proper finished community with people living in them and talking about what it's like and how maintenance costs are compared to a stick-built house..etc.

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>Additive manufacturing (AM) has been getting a lot of attention over the years, with its use in construction a recurring theme. Generally this brings to mind massive 3D printers that are carted to construction sites and assemble entire homes on the spot. That’s the perspective with which a recent ZDNet article by [Rajiv Rao] opens, before asking whether AM in construction is actually solving any problems. As [Rajiv] notes, the main use of such on-site AM construction is for exclusive, expensive designs, such as ICON’s House Zero which leans into the extruded concrete printing method.

I keep seeing this stuff and it looks interesting but I have yet to see a proper finished community with people living in them and talking about what it's like and how maintenance costs are compared to a stick-built house..etc. Archive: https://archive.today/433Kp From the post: >>Additive manufacturing (AM) has been getting a lot of attention over the years, with its use in construction a recurring theme. Generally this brings to mind massive 3D printers that are carted to construction sites and assemble entire homes on the spot. That’s the perspective with which a recent ZDNet article by [Rajiv Rao] opens, before asking whether AM in construction is actually solving any problems. As [Rajiv] notes, the main use of such on-site AM construction is for exclusive, expensive designs, such as ICON’s House Zero which leans into the extruded concrete printing method.

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Right on the mark, the point was to make it cheaper process, it is still mich cheaper to prefab walls and move them on site, just like I used to do 25 years ago.