The resilient, 500-square-foot homes were each 3D printed in around 24 hours of print time across several days by ICON, a construction technologies company, and feature final construction build out by ÉCHALE, New Story’s nonprofit partner in Mexico.
The built-to-last homes located in rural Tabasco, Mexico will be granted to local families currently living in extreme poverty and makeshift, unsafe shelter. The community of 3D printed homes will contain 50 homes in total.
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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/worlds-first-community-of-3d-printed-houses/
3D printing is still in its infancy. As the technology matures over the next few years, it may prove to have far-reaching implications. Will it still make sense to manufacture things in Location X and then ship them to hundreds or thousands of other locations for retail distributio?
There are a lot of implications if/when these new construction techniques become more widespread. 3D printing should significantly reduce construction costs. It and robotics would tend to reduce employment in the construction industry.
If prices for newer homes start dropping, couldn’t that put downward pressure on the values of the existing housing stock, with winners and losers? Boomers could see their largest investments decreasing in value, but Millennials might be able to make purchases they’ve so far been priced out of. New construction techniques could even change the meaning of words. “Manufactured housing” is now a euphemism for mobile homes and their pejorative associations.
An Age of Abundance would have profound effects.
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Oh my gosh, that is super cool. I wonder if 3D printing can be done with recycled plastics. That’s probably a noob question. I don’t know much about this market. One thing I wouldn’t anticipate is a threat to standard construction markets. It takes a long time to create something using 3D printing processes. But as you suggest, that will certainly improve with time.
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Oh man that is awesome. I can see 3D Printing as being the change the manufacturing industry needs. It'll bring manufacturing back to countries who stupidly gave it up such as here in New Zealand.
I'm seriously looking forward to seeing how 3D Printing is going to affect the world's economy and access to parts et al. It's already getting a lot of use here in NZ due to our location and I can see it developing more.
The trade off is though that there would be more plastics being used but if there's a simple method of converting that plastic back into a base "ink" product then I can see this as solving a lot of problems the world over.
Also imagine the reduction in carbon by way of reducing the need to move products around the world. I'm loving where this technology is going to take us if only we can avoid getting the fat cats and politicians getting in the way of its development and use.