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Everything about our new technological era is teaching us to do more with less, and at a reduced cost. Digitization and automation are steadily eating at the foundation of the capitalist system. Labor is now adverse to productivity and efficiency in our digitally enabled reality. The 1st industrial revolution created our current reality. The arrival of the digital autonomous era is already rendering it obsolete. The effects are everywhere in our society today. You just need to understand what you are looking at.
Seems like a great idea except, what would all the unemployed construction workers do?
So what about the fumes? How long do they last?
I would live in one. How do they put things in the walls like electrical wiring and plumbing?
If they get as many failed prints as I do, there will be a whole neighborhood of unfinished and messed up houses
I'm sure the workers are on their toes with their phone ready in case something does go awry, and they can hit a panic stop button 😄
lol you need a better print bed
@@Qui-9 Not to mention it looks like at least one of the workers is 24/7 watching the print.
What printer do you have, Federico?
your failures is likely due to the narrower nozzle and requirement to heat a filiment instead of just dumping cold cement, and requirement for finer precision. These 3d printed homes can have a lot more error and inaccuracy as the excess will just be removed. And structural support does not have to be uniform. Just in near enough the same pattern and places. No need for high accuracy.
You left out the guy who built a 3D printer for concrete and made a castle for his daughter in the backyard. He did this before anybody was making 3D printed houses and was contacted by Disney. That was like 8 years ago.
is this real? that sounds cool
source or it didn't happen
Here you go: kzhead.info/sun/d7VuddCaraioZIU/bejne.html The quality is kind of bad but it seems legit.
that sounds fake (in a good way) but thats amazing
@@meganium_0605 Watched it. Totally real and amazing.
Can you imagine leaving for the weekend and coming back with a new house next to you
LOL!!
no, becasue it's not possible.
@@Manish_Kumar_Singh did you watch the video? Some of these smaller houses are done in 24 hours
That's just the US suburbs.
@@benjaminleaber4691 Brains dont exist
3D printing saves on material and labor costs so it is cheaper! **Still prices it at average market rates**
3D printed House is now way cheaper and cost a fraction of the regular House. Socialism: cheap houses for everyone! Capitalist: *celebrating huge price margins and CEO profits*
@@SmallIcebear What is the connection between development and political system? Did turtle bite you or something? And how exactly there's no competition, if houses are already there? Learn capitalism or something. If 2 products exist and they fight for the market - is called competition.
@@SmallIcebear You wrote: "1. Its ECONOMIC system idiot. Capitalism offers an economic incentive for innovation. Socialism does not. " Good morning Idiot! Alex here. Can you tell me - How exactly (why?) capitalism offers an economic incentive for innovation and socialism does not? I understand those words are not yours, since you have no explanation. Please explain the reasoning behind those lousy words. (I'm rather interested in the latter part of the question.) Real estate is a housing market. Sellers are selling houses, based (in an ideal world) on their ability to undercut other people offers and gain profits. Period. If you can build a house cheaper - you will either sell it cheaper; gain higher profits, or have middle-ground between two options. Period. Please use your own reasoning when going to write e an answer.
@@AlexMetslov Capitilism with competition encourages innovation because companies need to create better products in order to get a larger market share and make more money. Also consumers will purchase the best product for the best price resulting in a direct incentive to innovate and improve products or invent new ones. This creates a meritocracy. In a socialist system the government owns the means of production and so there is only one possible group to get your products from. The only incentive for innovation would be that citizens are more likely to elect you if you the government is improving the products that it offers. However, the incentive is not strong because the voters are voting on a million different issues not just how good are the iphone cameras going to be next year. Also, voters are forced to make the subjective decision to decide which representative will innovate better and more efficiently. Its much harder to decide if trump or biden will create more innovation over the next four years, then to just allow everyone to try to make the best possible product and whoever makes the best product will win the sales and get to continue doing what they are doing. The feedback loop in socialism is indirect and slow and the feedback loop in capitilism is fast and direct. In terms of these houses, if you create one cheap house you will probobly just sell it at market price. However, if the market is flooded with cheap housing from a number of different companies, house buyers will buy the cheapest house and housing prices will go down. Or consumers will spend the same amount of money but buy the nicest/biggest/coolest house. Making nicer bigger cooler houses will cut into profit margins. No company can sustain ridiculously high profit margins unless they have a monopoly because a competitor will just offer the same thing for cheaper and win all the market share.
@@johndoe-iu4ms Cool. But the same problem (Lack of innovations and competitions) is guaranteed outcome in capitalism. You might be delusional that every company will have equal opportunities, but in reality there is no need to innovate if you own everything. You just crank prices up and rest of the people struggle to meet ends. (Can you please stop this capitalist = inventions and market?) Also, you completely ignore that socialism will drive be driven by effectiveness. If your country wants to survive, it need to be as effective as possible. As such, there will be thrown tonnes of money into researd and development. (China as example). Of course there is no pure socialist of capitalist country. Capitalist will drive prices up to unaffordable state, when people will have no food, health and education, because of profit (like USA, for example).
$300k is insanely expensive for what you're getting with that house.
It depends on the housing market in each area. It will also depend if the buyer wants simple square rooms or something very custom that better fits the plot of land and needs of the family.
Well, I wouldn't compare it to the standard US wood plus insulation technique, but to a stone or concrete house. with the flexibility printing adds they can and will charge extra as long as there isn't a hard price marcet on printed housing.
Agreed, though as others have noted, prices vary by area. The area where that house is... people are idiots to pay that much.
I agree, even if it's 1/2 as much, tell me what they paid for the land. If they paid 200k for the land they built it on, okay. If you tell me the property was under that, I what is the gross margin on the build.
to some degree yes, then you have to remember houses that are being built today are basically cheap wood with fake brick cladding to make them look good. These cheap houses that you see on the market these days are designed to last 20-30 years. The 3D printed houses are closer to double clad brick houses that are still standing 50-100 years later that cost a fortune these days to build.
Those dudes you see building houses out of dirt on KZhead were ahead of their time! 😉
Tinyshinyhome and my little homestead are the two to look at!
@@krisgee1154 my little homestead are the smartest happiest family on KZhead IMHO
🤣😂🤣 Underrated comment.
@@rogerstarkey5390 Superadobe construction, I'd wager.
That's still more labour work. And less structurally sound as they're made of dirt. We all know what happens when dirt gets wet. Those areas are quite dry so they don't got to worry about very rainy days collapsing the home. At least not as often as most areas.
DARPA: "I'm going on holiday, do you mind feeding my house while I'm away?"
If my house gets too hungry, will it eat me when I come back? lol...
@@wagnerfontes2 Actually it likes to eat the bodies you store in the basement. Works for me atleast.
@@andrewlichmanov5767 damn that would be super helpful
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I love 3D printing, I love robots, and I love building. I also know enough about building houses to know that those 3D printed houses are horrible, and they're marketing the crap out of it to make it look feasible. You know why it's done so quickly? Because they only report the printing time, not the time it takes to install wiring, ducting, windows, finishing, etc.. They also don't mention that (with how they're currently building the houses): - You don't have insulation (or maybe a sprayed in foam if you're lucky) - You have massive heat leakage at every door and window, since the concrete just flows from outside to inside without any kind of heat barrier - You'll have moisture issues because of that (if you're in a climate like the North of the USA / northern/central Europe) - etc. I love the idea of 3D printing a house, but the quality you're getting at this point in time will be way below what you're getting from a regular house (a decent house that is, not an American style wooden shanty). If they marketed this like "We can print any shape you want, and the walls will be up quickly", sure, but they always claim they can complete a house in days. Well guess what: you can't. The entire construction process (only building, not even talking about permits) is still gonna take at least a month, and probably longer. I like the idea of easily printing all kinds of shapes, transporting the concrete in the most efficient form (compared to prefab panels, which are inefficient to transport when they have weird shapes), and being done with the walls quickly, but thinking this is a complete solution for building houses is just dumb. 3D printing houses isn't going to solve anything, sadly, it's just gonna make cool, non-straight walls a lot easier to create.
3D printed homes and more dad jokes than you can shake a stick at. Exceptional!
Speaking of shaking. Earthquakes
@@corcorandm Hm. Yea we don't get many earthquakes in the North of Europe though ;)
I don't see those machines do electrical work or placing any pipes in houses. Do those houses come with electricity and water or it's your problem?
There are machines that will run conduit and pipes as the walls are laid. I don't know how well they work yet, but I know that's something they've been trying to do.
@@joesmoe71 I call these machines construction workers. I've seen them in action, and they work quite well.
I have seen another program about 3D printed houses ,and they said they only print the shell of houses, the plumbing and electricity are done manually.
Welll theoretically you could get it it to 3D print the plumbing too as it is building everything else so the only thing you’d probably have to do is the electric installation
@@kellyblack2010 Even if they can't really do it now it's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to do it correctly. We're all living in a sci-fi movie as far as people 50 years ago would think if they could have seen us in the future, lord knows what technology we'll have in another 50, assuming we don't kill ourselves before then.
It would be interesting to see 3D printed homes with material from the location of construction or very near to it.
@vctjkhme It isn't superior, this is a classic case of finding a solution to a problem that never existed.
@@corail53 you're right
First video iv watched from this channel and I instantly subscribed. Great content and perfectly put together
The possibilities are so endless and exciting. Can't wait to see how far this goes.
I’ve covered over a dozen 3d printed construction companies you can dive into
It's about time this takes off. I thought it was 5 years away in the 90s. It kept being 5 years away for a while now.
@@orangestapler8729 fusion is 30+ away if it comes at all
So i guess Time was Paused for you? /s
@@notMattGarska fusion will be a mid-2030s thing.
I don't think it is "about to take off". 3D printing is still decades away from overcoming the quality and reliability of general manufacturing practices. It's wonderful for prototyping but we are nowhere near being able to achieve the same kinds of tolerances we see with subtractive machining and general carpentry/construction.
I remember seeing something like this in the mid to late 90s, but they didn't call it 3d printing. It used a robotic form and pour system that basically did it as a stack of curbs. It didn't look like rope pottery when it was done.
" Honey, our house got taken by a tornado today." "That's OK Jessie, I'll just call the 3d printing company to build us a new one"
This is the Jetsons future (in that show an entre office building was built in less than a day)
I cannot believe the river swept my 3D pointed house away every year for the last 5 years in a row. I will never recover from this... again.
@@CodyLundberg - Cody, 2028
Great video, Matt! Very interesting to see the future!
Great! They unlocked 3D printing building efficiency :) I'm expecting that we will just end up with more structures. Just like with LEDs
At those prices, low income people will never be able to afford it.
Lol the price will come down, but the best part is. There are less job for the low income. So yes, it will always be unaffordable to the low income.
They’ll have to learn new skills so they can earn higher income
Until the technological changes force them out of the new job.
@@tradingwithwill7214 there are people that just can't learn. As the IQ requirement for job increases, more and more people are lacking the capability to do so.
actually a 450k house, with an average mortgage time of 30 years, would be a 2k per month payment, that isnt that much compared to rend prices in the US.
You guys are pumping out new episodes. Love each and every one of them.
Glad you're enjoying them!
I'd absolutely live in a 3D printed house! I love the complex and interesting geometries they can achieve that would normally cost a fortune to construct the traditional way. Even better if I could model the house myself! :P
I like the idea too and gets me thinking about possibilities of application. but after working in construction for a while, I can see major disadvantages. This is only automating a small percent of a home build. The slab foundation needs to be there and then this only builds the first floor but even that requires a crew to set window/door lentils and do electrical/plumbing/HVAC cutouts before it hardens. There is no way this is faster than a 2-3 man framing crew when building the first floor walls. And usually masonry walls are unnecessary, specially for interior walls. Wood framing is cheaper and easier to work with. Other than unique sweeping and curved surfaces or other artistic designs, I don't know what this tech solves. Most presentations on it fail to describe the hard parts integrating with the other trades.
@@Josh.1234 Very valid points. Also, concrete isn't the most eco friendly material to be using for the entire structure for a house. Although, a 3D printed houses volume of concrete is tiny relatively speaking. I do think think that with further automations and material engineering, a lot of the issues you bring up could be solved or improved. While a 2-3 man framing crew could get the framing up pretty quick, I think an advantage to 3D printed structures is that there's very little finishing work required. But yeah, there's still a lot of things that would need to be figured out to make it viable on a wide scale.
@@BRUXXUS yeah finishing is different between the two wall structures. Most people will want the walls parged smooth and running elec/plimb/HVAC through any of those walls will be crazy fun compared to stud built. I am not sure on the insulation and the exterior moisture control is through a elastomeric paint. Not sure that's ideal waterproofing. I'd love to see two crews go head to head and see the time and effort differences. Asking the carpenters/masons and they will tell you how much time is saved. Honestly seems like a robotic manufacturing plant cranking out prebuilt wall panels and delivered on site for bolt or fastening would be better use of automation.
Looking to move to Texas where ICON is and very interested in exploring this as an option.
Great vid. I love the idea of 3dP homes and have been following it for awhile. My only concern is the effect of all the cement construction replacing wood and the greenhouse effects of that (not to mention that we're running out of sand). I'm dying for someone to create a material that can replace concrete but still support 3 story buildings in a sustainable manner.
lol just build properly thermal isolated conventional house made of bricks and for the next 150 years of using without air conditioning the carbon footprint will be on your side
Like the other person said, brick has done this for centuries. And new wood materials can easily be multiple stories as well and are more sustainable already. The problem (for the housing market) is clearly labour, building a house with brick or wood takes a lot of people instead of 1 printer which runs for 24 hours a day.
@@jellevm well partially true, but building the walls is actually the cheapest part of building a house - at least in europe. Roof is expensive if you want to have an attic with dormer window, and the most expensive part is finishing from the inside, and as I said in other comment - that guy who will come to straight these walls from inside will get a trauma. Unless you want your home to look like made of mud
Strawbale, Limecrete, properly designed rammed earth, and bricks all fit that bill...
Well...we do have to consider the hidden CO2 costs of conventional wood framed houses. 1. We cut down CO2 absorbing tree's for the materials. 2. We then create tons of CO2 while transporting the materials. 3. Traditional framed houses require more personnel to install, and those workers create CO2 when traveling to the worksite unless they use electric vehicles. 4. Wood framed homes may be less sturdy depending on construction, and cause higher CO2 costs for repairs/complete rebuild of structures. I haven't done the research on this though...
Hi Matt, good video & info. Earlier today I ran across a video about Geopolymer Concrete which I had never heard of before. And in one of the videos they mentioned some 3D house printing company was using Geopolymer Concrete. It would be great is you would do a video on it and its reality and/or hype.
This was informative and helpful. I'm interested in living in a 3D printed home, so I hope you'll keep delivering videos related to this topic. I'd like to see a video that covers if, when, and how to get a home 3D printed in your US state (i.e. where you live).
Most timely video, Matt. I am no longer undecided about 3D printed houses! 😉
Always wanted a Dome house with interconnecting subterranean domes. More labor but similar structure.
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@@billallen275 I've been dreaming of a Timberline Geodesic for decades. A very sound home and with concrete floor that are heated and 2x6 walls, it would be very efficient. Check them out if you're interested. Look into the Double Mulberry 👍 Take care
Yeah I'll be in the market to build a house in the next year, a 3D printed earthship type home with straw or wool bale insulation is sounding pretty interesting right about now considering the current pricing for traditional western building materials!
Two words: Hobbit Holes.
Very good summary! There is another category for robotic house builders although, the bricklaying robots. For example Hadrian X from Fast Brick Robotics, but there are others also.
This exists since long but never defeated the Mexican workers... The technicians required to set it up probably cost 5x more than a worker
"Sir are you sure you want it to look like a dragon?" me: for the last time yes! now do it!
I'd love to see a cost breakdown in a video where you compare Panel Built Homes to 3D printed ones and see which tech is emerging faster?
1,400 square feet for $300,000 is super high for a house. This was made in May 2021, we'll see how that post ages...
As with many things I expect that every order of magnitude produced will push down the price a bit with some diminishing return. The greatest price drop would be somewhere between hundreds and tens of thousands. If we get to the point where at least a third of average construction companies own one or more building printers then it will probably start to stabilise.
In my area that price point follows the market.
Finally some Dutch glory on the channel!
Hey, I love your work and your choice of topics! Great stuff. I also love puns! That said, when you mix puns into informational content, I think it's confusing and slows down the information rate. Perhaps your other viewers love this sort of thing, and I am just an old curmudgeon. Well-curated, relevant humor is a great addition to any content. Cheap puns are noise. Boost your signal!
Another great video Matt
Matt, i’m Treyvon Perry, CEO of Von Perry. An architecture and tech company that 3D prints infrastructure. I love your video. Were actually working on a project that will be the biggest 3D printed home in the united states. Keep your eye on Von Perry, lots of great news coming in the next few weeks. 😉
Awesome! Will do.
I just reached out through the website. Look forward to connecting :-)
@Louí Lopèz respectfully, you have a scarcity mindset. This technology will reduce costs and allow more people access to affordable housing. There is nobody on earth that would say we should not have machine excavators because ditch diggers with shovels would be out of a job. The benefits of better automation and taking 1 person with a machine to do what it took 50 people to do before has allowed our society to advance, lowering prices and bring more people out of poverty.
@Louí Lopèz You’re viewing life differently, automation of industries always cuts on labor. Its a natural push for humanity. Lets observe the car industry, back then you had make cars fully by hand, its now normal for large machines to make those cars. It slashed the labor force but at the same time, heavily pushed the planet in ways you couldn’t imagine. Creating jobs for different areas in different industries and within its own. The houses that are produced by 3D printing come with loads of benefits, i personally think it would be silly to come up with a new technology that can help billions but ignore it because it slashes jobs in one area (but also adds jobs in others). At the end of the day, this is my personal opinion. Von Perry is a rapidly growing company, and with our ambitious goal, theres no doubt we will be creating thousands of jobs around the globe. 👍🏾
@@josephdruther5080 a scarcity mindset is appropriate because we are about to experience scarcity of many resources.
Woo! We're treading feet into sci-fi organic technology. I want a living house.
I love the idea too... But how does one drill a hole without feeling remorse anymore? Qq
@@andreilerca4145 for some walls you can use pattex or similar to replace the need for some holes
@@andreilerca4145 it is gonna be a plant like organic substance and I don't think you'll feel remorse for plants
Great stuff, as always!
Matt we need to starting calling 3D printers 'Replicators' 😂 Great video as always
In Germany, the first ever construction company has been given the green light to sell and 3D print houses. The company is called Peri. Fascinating stuff! Edit: Right, OK, he mentioned it!
Yes I did a video on the peri house in Germany, it is the most innovative in the world!
sure, lets make more car-dependent suburbs instead if high-dencity low-footprint areas. The dream land of FDP - cars and highways everywhere
@@romank90 honestly I don't get this new trend of pushing small city life blocked in a 50m² appartement... Just leave us in peace. I work from home, I plan to build a house this year, I don't understand this retardness of wanting to forbid single house!
Single houses, if built environmentally friendly can be even better in a near future that high density living spaces. Apart from the quality of life, it may allow for decentralised energy production (solar) and it isn’t unthinkable that soon stationary batteries will get better and cheaper. The combination of solar, battery capacity and an electric vehicle would solve many problems at once. The huge fear of an overloaded network isn’t quite justified in any case.
@@romank90 you can't even listen to music in an apartment, that is why people want houses not apartment you can only sell what people want you can force people like now by high price but society have and have not animosity grows until it explode.
How many puns? Matt: Yes
All the puns.
@@UndecidedMF unlimited punwer
Love your content. It gives me hope for the future
Matt, I hope you do more vids on this topic. Fascinating stuff.
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I love the sneaky “when feeding plastic to a 3d printer it creates vocs” implying that concrete printing creates VOCs when it really doesnt at all. Was that an accident or....
It was stated in the video it was the additives to the materials to have the cure faster that were causing the VOCs. I agree, it wouldn't be the concrete itself but if they are using a weird mix of concrete they concocted for the print, it may be.
I’d like to see these techniques combined with the Earthship strategies and techniques.
Yes!
earthships contain alot of "trash" in the walls
I was really glad to see the impact of concrete on the environment mentioned.
I am loving this whole concept!
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency = Real Life I'm waiting for them to create the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division
It's already in action, have you seen lumber prices?
🤣 Marvel jokes
That’s a mouthful, I hope their working on that
I would totally try living in a live 3D printed home!
Absolutely I would! I a am already a 3D printing nerd. I don’t like to just print random useless figures. I like designing and printing usable useful designs. Parts that actually fix a problem or make things better. This is the first time I’ve seen 3-D printed houses, but I was really interested by the extra information I found out. Great video!
I am a rtd. structural engineer and keenly interested in lightweight 3D printed structural buildings and designs, this information in this video encouraged me and I studied every activity and now more interested to learn much more.
How durable are these houses, will they last in severe storms with Hail or hurricanes, typhoons and tornados? It doesn't matter how cheap it is if it gets destroyed by 100Mph straight winds or heavy snow.
They are concrete, so they are probably strong against wind and rain, but that might be it. Again, they are concrete, with zero reinforcement, so if there's an earthquake, they will come tumbling down in no time. That neighborhood is probably being built in Texas because Texas has the lowest risk of earthquakes in the whole country. Even without a disaster though, every house is subject to settling over time, which leads to cracks in the walls. That seems bad in a concrete building. Concrete roads and bridges always require expansion joints to deal with thermal expansion, and it doesn't look like these houses have any. Maybe they are small enough that they don't need them? I wouldn't think about buying one of these houses until the technology is 30-40 years old.
this whole video is just a gimmick, the numbers "X% cheaper, Y% faster" but faster and cheaper than what? Nobody knows. I imagine the guy who will come to straith those walls with plater from the inside will get a trauma.
Great analysis of the industry based on your first impressions! My channel is completely dedicated to 3d printed houses and I’ve covered nearly every company competing in this exciting new space!
wondered if you were going to show up here...lol
Worked as a foreman for a general contractor for several years. Things like this and prefabricated houses seem great on their face until you have to change anything. Cut holes for new plumbing and electrical, fix problems with old plumbing and electrical. Repairs, remodeling, future additions, ect. Having the main structural component be the outside skin of the building is a recipe for disaster.
When you get stuck on an island I hope you have your intro music to keep you company.
Government: Complains about the growing poor, homeless and immigrant populations and not knowing what to do with them Also the government: Makes 3d Printed homes that release harmful gases to the residents inside. "All homeless and low income families welcome" You know what chief that sounds like a red flag to me
I don't think it's a coincidence Matt posted this video on Star Wars day. Personally, I welcome my new Tatooine domicile. May The 4th Be With You.
Very underrated comment! If they could combine this with thick inner wall insulation like desert dwellings along with smart house IOT features a lot of people in deserts will indeed seem to be living on the famed planet!
And during the month/moon of the Jedi
Thanks for the videos
I live in what is called a “Factory Built” house. . . Built in a factory 400 miles away and shipped to a poured foundation in two halves. I’m still enjoying it 50 years layer. The ONLY things that have required attention are the roofing material, sbd anything that was finished off by local labour. The cost, inclufing kand, at the time, was under CDN$20,000
I also believe that's more of a solution. In Germany about 30% of houses are now built like that. And nowadays you need only very limited local labour, they are sent with everything already installed.
Yes its cheaper,quicker to build, better to live in and better for environment than that concrete blob.
Would like a cost and quality comparison of these vs CEB (compressed earth brick). I think 3d is faster but CEB is much cheaper, more insulating, perhaps more earth friendly, but it doesn't get the limelight because it's low-tech.
hippie shit
So while this is more flexible initially, I get the feeling that for a typical home, this might be a problem for repairs and and modifications down the line. We know and can easily find wood and drywall, put up new walls, and take down old ones if we want to renovate. Because each 3D printed home is unique, it seems modifications after the fact are going to be harder. This might introduce a more “throw away” type of home culture since 3D printed homes are cheaper and more easily replaceable with reduced time lines, just remove the old building and put up a new one. Traditional stick might just be easier to modify and potentially better in the long run due to people’s constantly changing tastes.
I don't quite get your point? the problems you describe are even more present when talking about wooden panel housing (just scrap the old house build a new one) When you talk about brick and mortar with drywalls inside, then just 3d-print the outer walls and use drywalls on the inside? You don't have to 3d-print the inner walls....
@@richiericher9084 3D printing the outside and using traditional framing on the inside where possible could be a good compromise, I like that idea. What I’m talking about though is more along the lines of if you need to replace cabinets or fixtures, or run new lines or utilities through walls. With traditional wood framing, you remove the drywall, do what you need, add back in the drywall, and all the studs are still in place for you to mount whatever you need to to the wall. For 3D printing with the concrete mix used in this video, patching large holes seems like it would be difficult and potentially annoying to make new anchor points since you need to drill into a hard rock like material vs wood. In terms of destroy and just build brand new - which it may exist in wood housing already - because of pricing, may people opt to reuse / remodel what they have instead of a tear down and rebuild. For example, if a new kitchen and bath is 100k, and to rebuild from scratch is 300k, many will just redo the kitchen and bath. Once you introduce 3D printing as a competitor well if a new kitchen and bath is 100k, and a rebuild from scratch it 150k, well might as well just rebuild everything from scratch. The price comparison is what I’m saying might drive the potentially even more than disposable nature of future housing at an accelerated rate from what is happening now.
Great Job as always brother. You're getting smarter hey😉 Not that you weren't already.
Dont ever change this music! haha What's it called. I've heard it in a couple vlogs. Figured I would watch this before I watch the podcast with you and your brother.
How does the house deal with settling and foundation movement?
its gonna crack!
3D printed house = house that costs like printer ink.
so 200 times what it should?
I do wonder whether additions will require using the same, probably proprietary, substance as the main house, in order not to void a warranty.
@@bearcubdaycare Probably all kinds of wacky bullshit is happening now with only 1 company operating in a given area yet. if it catches on though, there will be a bunch of competitors and both the price and stupid DRM types of things and so on should all drop away, because otherwise the one company that DOESN'T have a silly proprietary mud would just steal 100% of the local business. As long as it's still a "artsy" thing, it will be all weird.
I'm actually saving up to 3D print a house, it's so much cheaper and I could move in sooner. Really looking forward to see how much the tech can evolve over the next 3-5 years
Great video! 3D Printed Architect is the future!
Yes! 3D Printed homes are awesome - especially that you can literally design *anything* to be "printed". What I would like the industry to explore more is using local organic materials (i.e. use the dirt that is right on site as the material) combined with some stabilizers such as resin or hardeners. Also, I think the structure should be recyclable -that is, why couldn't you demo and grind up the structural parts as material for something new??
so everyone can have a pond or pool in the yard.
This may make sense in the US where labour is a major component of a house price. Here in Africa, the materials cost is far more important and it looks like that uses more cement. There is also the roof and other parts that are not 3D printed. Add to that land, rates etc. But worst of all, is that single story houses are actually not that environmentally friendly, what we really want is more flats for low cost housing.
No, we don't want more flats. We need low rise human scale housing, that satisfies human needs for community and interaction with the natural environment. Until we tackle the problem of land hoarding, we will continue to make the same mistakes of not humanising our homes. Please no more soulless blocks of boxes.
@@BigHenFor I live in a block of flats, and it is most definitely NOT soleless blocks of boxes. We have a large communal garden which encourages community. I know my neighbors much better than people living in single houses do. I have birds outside my window and a canal that runs near by. It is far more environmentally friendly than single houses are. I am not proposing sky scrapers, merely 3-4 floor blocks of flats with gardens. Much much more environmentally friendly than the American urban sprawl.
This is great. We can template old historical homes and castles, instead of just a square home.
That would be great
Matt, Another great video ... this is So exciting! The magic of this manufacturing revolution is in designing products (cars or homes) with the machine in mind that builds the machine. These 3D printed houses (as does Tesla) seem to show off that Producibility principle. Yup, were at the dawn of some very exciting times. Cheers, Eric
Thanks, Eric! It really is fascinating and exciting stuff.
There is also 4 D printing which is 3 D printed objects that change shape over time such as due to heat or an electric current that researchers at MIT is developing.
I can guarantee that these houses 3D-printed in a few hours will also change shape over their (short) lifetime. ;-)
Link?
Always like to see more heating/cooling neutral building techniques
Make a video on Ecosuru Pump Primer. It was in the ad, I'm intrigued.
Thank you 🙏 AGAIN for your excellent work 👍👏👏👏👏. I've read a bunch on this topic but you've done a MUCH BETTER job than all those articles and current too... can't find this information on national media either. 🤔 How about printing parts of a house in a factory and then assembly at the site... yeah you did that too 🤭🤓
Appreciate it!
Waiting to find out where a 300k home is at 1400 square feet. That's where near prices in my area
California which is where he lives I believe and prices in Austin,TX have skyrocketed this year
Yep, 300k is not so good, its not half. 130m2 houses averages around 265k dollars in Europe and those are the cheapest ones. Made of good old bricks. Maybe is US you have really expensive houses? i mean 130m2, thats like minimum for comfortable living, for 600k, thats pretty crazy.
normal house: around $100 000 - $200 000, 3D printed house: $500 000 i think im getting a normal one
Lots of comments like yours. House prices vary a hell of a lot depending on WHERE they are. Hell, there are big differences within the same area, and between areas is insane. These houses are generally being built in or very near cities. BTW: Where I currently live, every yard above sea level comes with a price hike.
@@travcollierThey are overselling the cost at extremely high margins, due to market base for location. Only way to truly get 3D printed house for cheap is DIY.
@@MarsStarcruiser The tech is still early days. However, look at how much labor and materials are required... There's a lot of room for the cost to come down as it becomes more common.
@@travcollier it won't become common if it cost more than what's already common place. And the only reason why people are making this point is because they made a bullet point of Lower Cost.
How about using hemp? I was watching a documentary about hemp house. It was actually cheaper as a material but it was way more labour intensive. If we can eliminate the labour part, it would become an amazing building material.
Hempcrete? I'm looking at this 'print' & thinking "let's double this up, with Bales for insolation, the outside we sand smooth, the inside we put wood facades" I'm curious about all the ways across history we, life of this planet; build Straw, manure, mud, concrete, stone, wood Dugout There's a concept of homes called 'earthships' that are similar - but I've noticed some Materials that may be toxic to home environments used in that with the whole 'reuse' like tires They're self-sustaining contained homes Homes that are power sources as an active part of the grid is how I see it, best working I'm drafting a vehicle engine that works as a generator that you'd be able to power a home off of Driveonwood.com is a concept that works A KZhead channel & website Methane is the fuel from this It's solar power, sun in, tree out Also water electrolysis to break the molecules, this would be a secondary fuel for Hydroxy Gas is the fuel for this 'Meaningful Longevity' Designs that work off planet!
IMO: Some pros: cool custom shapes, speed of construction, strength, IMO: Some cons: too expensive, bad interior air quality, more environmental impact, harder remodeling if ever wanted, higher heating and cooling costs
you can also add, weak strength against earthquakes, no steel in the construction => weak in general
Would I live in a 3D printed house? I have contacted Icon and asked them. I want a 3D printed passive house and workshop.
Nice!
"This will create unemployment" - So lets go back to the stone age! Can't u even think about people needing cheap houses?
Thanks for this presentation. I definitely think 3D building are best for affordable housing projects.
5 main questions i have regarding 3d printing house: - the streamline of obtaining a certificate of occupancy based on local regulation - will the walls crack if the area is geologically move by cm each year. - cost of maintenance. - future renovations and expansion of the house - foundation for higher structure and its durability.
The Chinese have been 3d printing houses with concrete for over a decade. Glad to see we are catching up.
probably why thier houses look like 60 year old houses in only 3 years
3:10 "Makerbot invented DIY 3D printing" This is pretty much false, and is a discredit to the RepRap community that spearheaded the movement towards the affordable FDM machines that are ubiquitous today.
Maybe a poor choice of words, but Makerbot undoubtably took DIY 3D printing mainstream in 2009.
No rebar, rough surfaces collect dirt and mold worse than brick. Rains a lot in Florida. Does that stuff repel moss and algae.
Last year i found a 3D printed house here in germany. I wasnt aware its already this practical
I'm pretty sceptical about this. How long will those houses last? If they don't last long, then the smaller carbon footprint doesn't matter as new house would have to be constructed.
Wood houses have a much lower carbon foot print.
@@StuninRub But they don't last long if not properly maintained and they don't have good thermal insulation.
@@Makimars Wood has extremely good thermal insulation properties, it's more a problem of wood houses not being constructed the same way as concrete homes. Concrete is also not maintenance free, if you live in an area with wide temperature ranges, concrete might break down faster then wood.
@@Makimars There are literally wooden homes from the 1600 and 1700s still standing.
@@WayStedYou concrete lasts just as long. The Pantheon is still standing and is made of unreinforced concrete.
Yes I would love a 3d printed house
Yeah i'd rather not breathe in any micro fibrous material from synthetic plastic. You're more than welcome to discover new cancers if you want. Give me a log cabin any day of the week.
I found it actually disturbing how happy he seemed each time he mentioned how few workers were needed with this technique. I kept thinking how many jobs would be lost.
Get new jobs, if you can't adapt, you are out. Simple. Stop blaming technology. Next, what have YOU done for society?
@@edenassos What you are saying is those who have no access to a better education and must take whatever jobs they can, which are usually manual labor, just are out of luck and can go starve.
@@jps30 Uh, no access to a better education? As long as you have the internet, you have unlimited access to the largest wealth of knowledge. I'm pretty sure many people even with manual labor jobs have access to the internet. Stop finding excuses, that's a loser's mentality. The opportunities are laying in front of you, if you can't see them, it's on you.
There will always be new jobs. And if you're not good at anything useful to society then it is not anyone's fault but you.
Theres a shortage of skilled labor sooo
3d printed firearms i find fascinating especially when its so easy to acquire the blue prints.
He’s too optimistic, also how you gonna straighten these inner walls? Cost of labour must be to the roof
literally the opposite
And you think straightening those are more expensive than building a house from scratch?
@@meideval of course. House frames are built from well prepared blocks/frames and it takes less than a week to build the shell. Try to install hidden pipe system in this 3D printed house and finish it to at least some standard of a decent home - this would take forever
Everybody talks about the environmental impact of cement manufacturing but never about the impact sand mining in rivers has.
Nicely done with #THIS one, Mr. Ferrell...😎👍
This is honestly super cool. Bad for me since I do construction, but still cool
3D printing will lower costs for houses, help with insulation by having curved walls and a sun-oriented shape and will be more durable because of better materials. Also, building a home in 24h with just 3 people working on it, it's just magical.
i kinda doubt you could achieve passive house levels of thermal insulation with 3d printed concrete, but i guess we'll see
@@RCRobN Maybe double walling and using special stuffing materials between the 3D printed walls. But you do know that to make a passive house most of the cost is within the windows/HVAC/air tightness not the structure itself. I guess a 3D printed house can be a lot more helpful with air tightness than regular brick & mortar.
curved walls are not user frendly space, and its not finished in 24hrs. there is still a roof,heat,ac,electrical,plumbing,windows,to do.
4:10 reminds me of this short story in middle school about a house living on after its owners died in a nuclear apocalypse
With conventional construction plumbing and wiring is down during the build process. Do they simply pause the print and add pipe and wire then resume? Really good content.
Very impressive and stunning presentation 👏
I think the biggest win here is the fact you can build houses way faster, and with way less labor. After that prices for materials will start to drop anyways.
great video. i am also sure that 3d printing will revolutionize many other branches. medicine, for example: organs and limbs, teeth, etc.
Gonna get me one of them Mars vase houses. Perfect for someone who doesn't know why people live in houes.