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This is sciencey and pretty neat.Amsterdam 3D-Printed House Points To A Whole New Way Of Making Stuff

Hundreds of years after wealthy merchants began building the tall, narrow brick houses that have come to define Amsterdam's skyline, Dutch architects are updating the process for the 21st century: fabricating pieces of a canal house out of plastic with a giant 3-D printer and slotting them together like oversized Lego blocks.

Hedwig Heinsman of architect bureau Dus says the goal of the demonstration project launched this month is not so much to print a functioning house _ in fact, parts of the house will likely be built and re-built several times over the course of three years as 3-D printing technology develops.

Rather, it is to discover and share the potential uses of 3-D printing in construction by creating new materials, trying out designs and testing building techniques to see what works.
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But isn't the cost here just energy? The rest is consolidating and redirecting the logistics of building materials -- and maybe some conservation of renewable resources.

Neither of which are small things. But It does sound expensive.
 
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Houses are tremendously expensive because each one is basically built by hand and custom based on a plan; no interchangeable parts aside from simple things like window frames. If a house plan could be printed out and all of the parts delivered to the site pre-made, and the workers just assemble it... costs would drop, considerably. Most of the cost of building your house was labor.
 
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Cad_sl said:
Houses are tremendously expensive because each one is basically built by hand and custom based on a plan; no interchangeable parts aside from simple things like window frames. If a house plan could be printed out and all of the parts delivered to the site pre-made, and the workers just assemble it... costs would drop, considerably. Most of the cost of building your house was labor.
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Panelized Construction has had several attempts at become mainstream as early as the 1890s. Sears sold 100,000 in the 20s or 30s, making it the most successful attempt at Panelization. SIP panels have seen a bit of a comeback recently since they tend to decrease energy costs aas they have less seams that framed construction. Transportation tends to be the big drawback (portable cranes actually makes panels easier to use), as well as the difficulty of getting permits for multiple municipalities (which is something traditional builders lobby for).
 
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BoldW_sl said:
Panelized Construction has had several attempts at become mainstream as early as the 1890s. Sears sold 100,000 in the 20s or 30s, making it the most successful attempt at Panelization. SIP panels have seen a bit of a comeback recently since they tend to decrease energy costs aas they have less seams that framed construction. Transportation tends to be the big drawback (portable cranes actually makes panels easier to use), as well as the difficulty of getting permits for multiple municipalities (which is something traditional builders lobby for).
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I know, theres a bunch of those Craftsman homes in east Dallas. I'd imagine it'll be one of those things that won't be successful at first, but will phase in.
 
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Apparently the TED talks have moved to Vancouver for at least the next two years- I may have to see about going to one or two sometime.
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