{"id":6468,"date":"2014-07-10T19:14:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T09:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2014-07-10T19:14:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T09:14:48","slug":"print-yourself-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/07\/10\/print-yourself-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Print Yourself a House."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first saw a 3D printer I wondered how long it&#8217;d be before they&#8217;d start scaling up in size. Now I&#8217;m not talking about incremental size improvements that we see every so often (like with the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makerbot.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/16\/z18-shipping-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Makerbot Z18<\/a>), no I was wondering when we&#8217;d get industrial scale 3D printers that could construct large structures. The steps between your run of the mill desktop 3D printer and something of that magnitude isn&#8217;t a simple matter of scaling up the various components as many of the assumptions made at that size simply don&#8217;t apply when you get into large scale construction. It seems that day has finally come as\u00a0Suzhou Yingchuang Science and Trade Development Co has developed a 3D printer capable of creating full size houses:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"World&#039;s First 3D Printed House\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nV3jLUw4bqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Details the makeup of the material used, as well as its structural properties, aren&#8217;t\u00a0currently forthcoming however the company behind them claims that it&#8217;s about 5 times as hard as traditional building materials. They&#8217;re apparently using a few of these 3D printed buildings as offices for some of their employees so you&#8217;d figure they&#8217;re somewhat habitable although I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re in a much more finished state than the ones shown above. Still for a first generation product they seem pretty good and if the company&#8217;s claims hold up then they&#8217;d become an attractive way to provide low cost housing to a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;d really be interested to see is how the cost and materials used compares to that of traditional construction. It&#8217;s a well known fact that building new housing is an incredibly inefficient process with a lot of materials wasted in during construction. Methods like this provide a great opportunity to reduce the amount of waste generated as there&#8217;s no excess material left over once construction has completed. Further refinement of the process could also ensure that post-construction work, like cabling and wiring, are also done in a much more efficient manner.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested to see how inventive they can get with this as there&#8217;s potentially a world of new housing designs out there to exploited using this new method. That will likely be a long time coming however as not everyone will have access to one of these things to fiddle around with but I&#8217;m sure just the possibility of a printer of this magnitude has a few people thinking about it already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first saw a 3D printer I wondered how long it&#8217;d be before they&#8217;d start scaling up in size. 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