I actually think that all of the plans are ugly and they don't compare to the traditional luxury style homes. I would like to see something on par with traditional luxury
This is most definitely one of the futures in home building. Lumber prices and labor cost is astronomical so like anything else, automation is a huge benefit. Combined with computer perfection, its how I would choose to build and develop.
This is extremely cool tech, but realistically all that I see being done here is framing and interior walls. Is it also installing electrical, plumbing, heating/cooling, insulation, roofing, doors, windows, cabinets and finishing walls and floors? Anyone that has ever built a house knows that this is where 90%+ of the final cost comes from. That is also the part that takes months and months to do. I also don't see any rebar put in that concrete. Concrete without rebar is extremely brittle and can be easily broken. Like I said, very cool tech. I would personally let this one sit in the oven for a decade or so before I would look into it for my home.
Yeah I have a lot of questions too. All they’re doing is pouring concrete walls (without rebar). I feel like this creates more problems than it solves. How on earth do you turn a maze of cement into a functioning house? Jeez. I’m not sure if the person who came up with this has ever built a house before. I mean how in the bloody hell do you do ANYTHING if you don’t have hollow walls? Everything would have to run above the ceiling - not just the electrical. Plumbing too. How would it look to have your toilet supply line visible going up to the ceiling? I have a ton of questions about this.
@Tomorrow is Yesterday Plenty of countries don't have hollow walls 😅 You pass the wiring through tubes incased inside the walls. The same goes for plumbing. My house has no hollow walls and there's no visible pipes. You just dent the wall, insert a pipe and close it off with more concrete.
@TheRossWise - Uh, did you not see refrigerator and other appliances when they looked inside the home, or did you not get that far into the video because you rushed in here to beat your chest about your house-building experience?
@@TopBillinSports You DO realize they were looking at a finished home, right? As in, all the work I mentioned was already done prior to the video shoot. Seriously dude, a little common sense goes a long way.
These look like they will be difficult to insulate. The simple floor plan will make plumbing and electrical fairly easy provided there is a basement, crawl space. Heating will be electric baseboard or hot water if built on slab. Reminds me of Thomas Edison’s idea of selling concrete houses. He lost a lot of money trying to make his system work.
they have been making prototype 3d printed houses for awhile now in factories, to get the machines to work just right, but the house in this video, is the first one ever sold.
@@WonderWorldYTC I wonder if they have better floor plans where they house isn't totally square and blah looking . Have you seen any more unique floor plans and styles for 3D houses ?
I obviously need to read more about these, but can’t believe these would be approved by code without a steel skeleton for structural integrity! Especially in an area prone to earthquakes!
Please see what happens with spalling. Over time the concrete absorbs water and rusts any metal inside, which forces it to break. There's no way they're going to spend for stainless. Greedy builders are already screaming about tornado shelters.
The foundations are good (even tho I think there should be something like pillars in the ground for more stability) but after that it'll be good to just use the concrete as bones and apply electrical wiring, outer isolation (since in winters this will be like living in a concrete (litteraly) box) and on the inner side it's better to make the walls or use drywall. Other than that the idea is awesome
On local TV in NY they said something like it should withstand hit summers and cold winters. Plus the spaces in the pouring was fir the plumbing and electrical. For the third world small homes are great. For the west small homes and even bigger ones will help since the housing market is experiencing a shortage and prices that are insane right now.
@@MrGlenspace It literally has no insulation, it looks terrible, concrete is a terrible insulator. it's under 200mm wide but 100mm hollow on the insid with structural joints. You could break it with a hammer. The inside and outside probably annoying to frame since no flat surface. It doesn't take a wise man to figure how terrible this all out.
If you can leave a slot for windows and doors, why not HVAC and such? I think it should all be behind easily removable panels so you can get to it. Jmo.
In 1980s in Soviet Union countries when there were not enough apartments for people, they started casting walls, ceilings and floors in dedicated "house factories", then they transported them to the building site and they were building block of flats like house of cards. There are still a lot of these buildings, they are easily recognizable by the fact that they are identical to each other. The approach was different, but the goal was the same: build faster and cheaper.
Nowhere in this process did I see any rebar being installed, especially in the foundation where it is needed the most (That footing looked completely inadequate). You can't build a concrete structure without reinforcing it with rebar and expect it to last. Also you might be able to print the walls in 48 hours that's it, not the entire house. The rest of the house has to be built the traditional way, framing the roof, installing the electrical, etc. The concrete will also have to cure before installing a lot of these elements. A wood framing crew could easily stand the walls up on this house in one work day, that's in approximately 15% of the time it takes this machine to do it out of concrete. Concrete is also very unfriendly to the environment and is being phased out as a construction material. These machines will also be very unreliable and require a team of technicians to fix and maintain it constantly. They are also not including the time it takes to transport and set up machine which I would imagine would take quite a while. What do you do when you have to build multiple floors? Is the machine capable of this? What do you do with the machine while you are forming or framing the floors which take considerable time? Do you leave it there idle or bring it somewhere else and then bring it back? That seems like a huge waste of time. Can this machine work on a sloped/irregular surface? What happens if the house you want to build as larger than the machine is capable of? What happens when the elements affect the working conditions? If it is raining, too hot or too cold can this machine continue to work? If someone like me can find this many flaws (Give me a bit of time and I could find many more) in the system while having my morning coffee this system has a LONG way to go before it comes anywhere nearly as effective as traditional construction methods. This is nothing but a novelty and will end up costing far more and taking far longer than traditional construction methods. You might be able to make this system work on a subdivision where all of the houses are on flat ground and are all similar in design, that's it. Just my two cents:)
Your criticisms of this new-fangled fad the horseless carriage are most correct. Who would want to travel at such high speeds, especially with such a quantity of flammable liquid? The public will surely never tolerate the foul emissions or risk their lives simply to cross the street. Based on your advice I shall mortgage my stagecoach factory to double its size and production. It is surely risk-free without a viable competitor!
@@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics I gave several valid arguments as to why this construction technique has a long way to go before competing with traditional methods. I have extensive experience in this field of work so I know what I am talking about. Just so you know. Sorry I hurt your feelings there muffin. You people get upset by pretty much every thing these days don't you? Instead of attacking people who have different opinions why don't you talk with them instead? You might actually learn something. I am still waiting to hear any counter argument to the points I made if you are capable of it. FYI not everything new is good;)
i agree it`s way too complicated building big structures with 3d printers, but for small houses 1 storey, 2 room, 1 bathroom, this will be a game changer
Companies in China and Germany are printing multi-story concrete houses. As for the longevity, there are concrete structures with no steel reinforcement thousands of years old. They are in better climates than many places for sure, but even a fraction of that lifetime would be worth it.
No rebar, no insulation, 200mm of concrete or less and 100mm hollowon the inside, surface uneven, full off flaws, costly machine, terrible quality, looks like melted ice cream. Feels like a "Made In China" house.
Looks like a nice bungalow, and the speed is impressive. An issue is the massive land cost of bungalows, but I can see logistical problems with trying to engineer the system to produce three storey houses with a smaller footprint.
@@LibertarianGamer-ff5tg I think RVs should be used more. I'm not talking about cousin Eddie's tenement on wheels. Something nicer. City won't buy it, b/c god forbid they don't get property tax. But I'll guessing it's going that way.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 the small town I just moved from had rules that allowed a large shed in the backyard but not tiny houses. Maybe you can get an exception though. I get that the authorities don't want crap built as living spaces but there should be some research and help, not hindrance, in this area.
I like it but just wonder about composite plastics instead of concrete ? It would be less apt to crack , flexible and would be warmer feeling in the winters. I have never been a big fan of concrete.
@@commandercaptain4664 what why? Populations are declining in most countries today and will be declining world wide within a few decade. And when that happens demand will never recover and home prices will decline untill they are free
Fantastic idea! Rodent proof,insect proof all the insulation protected from external elements. No rebar is awesome. rebar has been shown to actually weaken because they rust and cause water channels. Many finishing possibilities great for tornado prone areas. Wiring and plumbing in the insulated cavity. Those who don’t see the advantages will soon be weened out of the building industry. Weenies as we call them. I have 30 years building with all types of construction materials in harsh winter climates and humid hot summers, concrete with fiber reinforcement (chopped up windmill blades and fiberglass boat hulls) is an extremely good material for residential and light commercial buildings. Plus i would get away from straight walls to improve air film and wind resistance. I see no problems.
@@tallswede80 It's still a new technology. Once it gets better and couple of dozen things get fixed, and everyone starts using it, prices MIGHT go down.
@@tallswede80 It was auctioned. And the first printed home to be sold. People are dumbasses and overpay to feel special. Until everyone has it. Then they just feel like an idiot. Good for them.
Finally, they are using technology. It's amazing what a little push from nature can do to species of all kinds. Humanity has spent way too much time in a stagnant phase. Evolution doesn't happen unless our existence is at risk. Push forward, overcome obstacles with the tools you are given and in time you too will give back as well.
What is it's thermal efficiency? "Ribbed look" looks nice when it's new and freshly painted but will be a nightmare to clean outside and will be a dust storage inside. What else...? Do you have any solution for reinforcing this construction? Is there any way of repairing or modifying the structure without compromising the integrity of the remaining walls? What's the cost analysis compared to traditional brick/airblock construction? What about the electrical installation and plumbing? Is it laid out when printing, is it easy to modify or does it lay outside of the construction? Is it only possible to have a single story or can it support multiple? Probably way more other questions left to address.
The only viable question should be: will it withstand all the earthquake/torchnado/flood/hurricane ravages of the inevitable post-climate world? All those others are just flipper dreams.
@@commandercaptain4664 actually those are all things European houses are build in mind with (at least privately owned ones - meaning not build to be sold but for personal usage). I live in Poland i don't have to fire up any of my active means of heating (multi-fuel furnace, gas heater or electric) until temps drop below 10*C. Not only is it well insulated and ventilated but during the day solars provide electricity for a heat accumulator that distributes heat as necessary. Yes, it is a bit of an overkill but adding a gas heater was cheap at the time and the rest was prepared in self-sufficiency in case of any problems - house is a ways off.
A great company I have even contacted them regarding investments. The demo house featured here in NY looks fabulous. With a Texas company ICON you should start really seeing these homes proliferate very soon.
Would it be more difficult to find mold in the home if the walls are sealed and there is a leak? Or what about flooding? Like the new foam Installation that often seals in water making it hard to find mold or repair electrical wires.
For those wondering about electricity installation, it's not a big problem. Walls are "empty". All you need to do is drill a small hole and install wires.
Yeah? What happens if there's any settling or the foundation shifts? I can't imagine that this will be any good in the long run. Have you ever had to deal with cracks in cement? It's like a crack in glass. It just keeps on spreading.
our old house was literally being pulled in half by shifting ground, had various parts of the house with huge crack down the center of the ceiling, but that was a house on stumps on a slanted hill.
@@KlingonCaptain sooooooooo would you rather have a cheaper house that can replaced with a another 3D print or would you shell out the unnecessary cash and complain on RUclips
Looks like a game changer but I’m interested In the insulation. In terms of staying hot and cold how would that work with no extra wall layer? Also what’s the endurance like during hurricanes and tornadoes or big natural disasters
I saw on the news that Habit Tat For Humanity had just finished a 3-D Printed Concrete House up in Virginia. I am wondering if a Mansion can be built using 3-D Printing?
I'm new to all of this and i'm confused about something. Why wouldn't these houses be 1/4th of the cost of a normal home? There is hardly any man hours, it just seems like he overhead would be WAY less. Are they charging for the convenience of speed? Why is it so expensive? Thanks
when the robot was laying the lower levels of foundation it did an S pattern which i’m assuming would leave air pockets. i have no experience with house building but wouldn’t air pockets cause some future problem?
I was thinking the same thing, they say they build the house fast but when does the electrical and plumbing go in, guess I’ll contact someone and get answers.
What's holding the cement together?? Where I am from we built a foundation with concrete rod the concrete and cement blocks. It seems that 3d print is not going to be reliable.
I'm just curious how they get the utilities I know the plumbing can be run underground but now what about the electric in the walls how is that accounted for how do you get the conduit run for the power and the stubs for the plumbing
Concrete built houses have been around for decades. Icf is the most common and is capable of amazing architecture designs along with outstanding insulation.
Cement is very porous by itself. But Icf stands for insulated concrete form. And depending on the brand of product you use, should be more than 2inches thick per side. 4 inches or more in total. Great insulation, great structure stability, and sound reduction. And that is with one contractor touching the wall once versus four contractors touching the wall. Thus saving the Biulder money
Fast and cheap. Will probably fall apart due to lack of flexibility, crack and wither during winter times even faster. Wood, metal or even plastics are necessary in order for the house to flex, it needs to have some give, otherwise it'll just break. The concrete doesn't even have steel reinforcements for crying out loud. Plus, you still have to do all the wiring, plumbing, insulation, flooring, finishing, on and on. The skeleton of a home makes up a very small percentage of the total labor and materials.
So how do you run HVAC or electrical through a concrete slab? Also isn't this going to be extremely cold all the time since its literal concrete.. where's the insulation?
This is super cool. I wonder how much the concrete would affect chill in places like Pacific Northwest? Would it be like tile? I see how they kind of address it. Does drywall also act as an insulator?Instead of cool carpet on the floor, you could have cool carpet on the walls!
Thats pretty cool tbh. Can be ran 24hrs a day too. And as for it looking layered on the outside you can always clad it to hide that or even render it. Inside will be plastered like you would now. Cracking idea tbh
I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking, but how long will they last? Because places like Oklahoma where you have extreme heat and extreme cold, sometimes a day apart, foundation’s or slabs whatever you want to call them seem to crack after 10 to 15 years.
Isn't this foundation inefficient? The house should weight a lot, and isn't it more reliable to use ribbon foundation? What to do with reinforcement? Without steel/fiberglass reinforcement the house going to start cracking at some point.
yes, but what about insulation properties of material they are building with? a quick build doesn't automatically mean a good build, not if your heating/cooling bills are still sky high when you move in...
so many ways to build, why just settle for one idea? when you can have walls with better thermal properties than this one. For example, mudbrick or rammed earth, both of which require less cooling/heating. Also, passive solar - which means placing your main windows only on the south/north sides of the house so (for Mediterranean style climates like California or much of southern Australia) you get winter sun on your kitchen floor, but not summer sun (this relies on the fact that the sun travels at a lower arc across the sky during winter).
This head is ok but i have advice . Under the nozzle i would set material boundaries on both sides with small metal plates. These two plates must be raised by a relay when the robot deviates from a straight path. I have idea to upgrade this nozzle and results be a flat structures from both sides. Now the Layers have a uneven surface , not flat
half the price of regular house? I'd like to see the cost breakdown. This price tag would imply that building the walls accounts for more than half cost of the construction which is very doubtful. There's foundations (maybe these are not needed here?), roof, floors, plumbing, electrical wirings, windows, interior... I'm sure I didn't mention it all.
That beautifully inspiring music and all the jobs this will take when it comes around. Thus creating more ppl who have to look for more affordable housing bc they can't afford what's in the current market. Literally creating its own customers. Hope you all enjoy trying to run coax or electrical in the walls later on when you want to change something. Also hope you all enjoy the lack of rebar and it collapsing on your during an earthquake or hurricane. All very possible without proper structural designs not existing within it. This will not last and thankfully it won't. We need more jobs to fix poverty... Not less jobs and more affordable items that will become out of reach for those that lost their jobs. These companies are just looking to monopolize as many aspects of a home as possible and aren't concerned with the lives they hinder along the way.
There's jobs all over the place. Get some skills with a FAFSA grant. It's all right there. Nobody should get a free ride. You should only get $$ if you're in trade school/training or in college. Period.
Achilles builds ... yeah in another thread they were bringing up that concrete is not very good and they will still have to put in insulation . They also said it's not that strong and could be broken with a hammer . Personally , I don't care for all this automation . Back around 1969 / 1970 older students were reading a book by Alvin Toffler called Future Shock . I remember reading it and everything this guy said has come true over the decades , especially how so many jobs would be displaced through automation and we would have a lot of unemployed people .
Lol that's not how new technology has _ever_ worked throughout human history. It creates new industries and jobs you can't even imagine, and any type of automation that makes menial human labor obsolete is a good thing. Imagine if we didn't have backhoes and bulldozers and that work still had to be done with hand tools ... we would probably still have widespread slavery and slave trading without machines and automation. And we basically still have serfdom in modern society which is based upon low-level labor jobs. Getting rid of the lowest level and hardest labor gives human beings new opportunities and openings and ultimately makes a more prosperous society, like it has done for thousands of years. Every generation gets scared of some new technology replacing old ways, but the grim predictions are always wrong and the new tech always makes human life better. Ultimately, the ambition of mankind should be to run out of all labor jobs and make scarcity of goods a thing of the past.
I wonder about the challenges of building this in the Arizona desert where I live. Also, I wonder how the structure would fare against the straight line winds and microbursts that are prevalent here.
How different would that be from building an adobe house out of sand and clay mixture - which exists all over AZ? Re wind - I would take concrete over wood in wind ANYTIME - speaking as someone who lived in tornado alley for years and in chicago before that
But it will give suppliers the ability to undersell their competitors who are still using expensive traditional building methods. Then those competitors will have to use 3D building printers so they can lower their prices to compete.
How do you solve a problem with insulation? 3D printing a house is a great way to build, especially in warmer climates, where you don't have to worry about cold temperatures. But in the Czech Republic thought winters can become very cold. I believe there is no such way to make the robot lay or sculp anything that is going to fulfill all the requirements for passive house especially here in Europe. It's way cheaper and faster to use workers instead.
I like the idea and it looks interesting especially on the outside and does it also have somit insulation properties because of the design? the high spots are directed to the sunlight and low spot are in the shadow
In another thread there saying that concrete does not insulate well and that you would still have to add insulation . They're also saying that it's very easy to break concrete with a hammer
Can you imagine a garage sized 3D printer in the backyard that can use plastic, metal or concrete as it's material it prints with, imagine all the things you could make.
The speed is incredible! It seems less like "building" and more like "growing" a house.
I think it's more like squeezing a house out of a giant tube of toothpaste. 〰
@@juneberry1982 June Berry , very well said and I have to agree with that
@@gardensofthegods thanks. 💙
grow a house and build a son
Would it kill them to add a scraper wheel that smooths out the layerlines?
EXACTLY- I’ve been saying this for YEARS
The first company that does that is going to slay it.
That could also make the home stronger while they could add rubberised joins for resistance against earthquakes and earth movement.
I actually think that all of the plans are ugly and they don't compare to the traditional luxury style homes.
I would like to see something on par with traditional luxury
This is most definitely one of the futures in home building. Lumber prices and labor cost is astronomical so like anything else, automation is a huge benefit. Combined with computer perfection, its how I would choose to build and develop.
Maybe if the government had thrown a 20% tax on lumber it wouldn't have ended up so expensive.
@@lyndonbrown9659 had?
Concrete is not very sustainable either
You dont know anything about developing
You think? Lol nope! Dont bank on it! Thanks to Klaus Shwabb "you will own nothing and youll be happy"!
This is extremely cool tech, but realistically all that I see being done here is framing and interior walls. Is it also installing electrical, plumbing, heating/cooling, insulation, roofing, doors, windows, cabinets and finishing walls and floors? Anyone that has ever built a house knows that this is where 90%+ of the final cost comes from. That is also the part that takes months and months to do. I also don't see any rebar put in that concrete. Concrete without rebar is extremely brittle and can be easily broken. Like I said, very cool tech. I would personally let this one sit in the oven for a decade or so before I would look into it for my home.
Yeah I have a lot of questions too. All they’re doing is pouring concrete walls (without rebar). I feel like this creates more problems than it solves. How on earth do you turn a maze of cement into a functioning house? Jeez. I’m not sure if the person who came up with this has ever built a house before. I mean how in the bloody hell do you do ANYTHING if you don’t have hollow walls? Everything would have to run above the ceiling - not just the electrical. Plumbing too. How would it look to have your toilet supply line visible going up to the ceiling? I have a ton of questions about this.
@Tomorrow is Yesterday Plenty of countries don't have hollow walls 😅 You pass the wiring through tubes incased inside the walls. The same goes for plumbing. My house has no hollow walls and there's no visible pipes.
You just dent the wall, insert a pipe and close it off with more concrete.
@TheRossWise - Uh, did you not see refrigerator and other appliances when they looked inside the home, or did you not get that far into the video because you rushed in here to beat your chest about your house-building experience?
@@TopBillinSports You DO realize they were looking at a finished home, right? As in, all the work I mentioned was already done prior to the video shoot. Seriously dude, a little common sense goes a long way.
These look like they will be difficult to insulate. The simple floor plan will make plumbing and electrical fairly easy provided there is a basement, crawl space. Heating will be electric baseboard or hot water if built on slab.
Reminds me of Thomas Edison’s idea of selling concrete houses. He lost a lot of money trying to make his system work.
I can’t wait to build my cheap house on my $2 million dollar block of land in Sydney🙄
The irony 😑
Just 3d print the land silly
Well you can always print a new island
Same in germany
Shawsie ,,,, I am sure your posh neighbourhood would love you if you did LOL 😂 .
That's simply amazing. At the beginning I thought it was going to be a scale model, but it's the real thing - a full size house.
they have been making prototype 3d printed houses for awhile now in factories, to get the machines to work just right, but the house in this video, is the first one ever sold.
@@WonderWorldYTC I wonder if they have better floor plans where they house isn't totally square and blah looking .
Have you seen any more unique floor plans and styles for 3D houses ?
@gardensofthegods if you look it up there are a couple of pretty unique shaped
It's not amazing y'all really don't see the outcome over robots taking over human tasks and activities
I obviously need to read more about these, but can’t believe these would be approved by code without a steel skeleton for structural integrity! Especially in an area prone to earthquakes!
Please see what happens with spalling. Over time the concrete absorbs water and rusts any metal inside, which forces it to break.
There's no way they're going to spend for stainless.
Greedy builders are already screaming about tornado shelters.
The foundations are good (even tho I think there should be something like pillars in the ground for more stability) but after that it'll be good to just use the concrete as bones and apply electrical wiring, outer isolation (since in winters this will be like living in a concrete (litteraly) box) and on the inner side it's better to make the walls or use drywall.
Other than that the idea is awesome
On local TV in NY they said something like it should withstand hit summers and cold winters. Plus the spaces in the pouring was fir the plumbing and electrical. For the third world small homes are great. For the west small homes and even bigger ones will help since the housing market is experiencing a shortage and prices that are insane right now.
I myself would opt in for the industrial look and run cable wires through painted metal pipes. I like the look when done right.
@@MrGlenspace It literally has no insulation, it looks terrible, concrete is a terrible insulator. it's under 200mm wide but 100mm hollow on the insid with structural joints. You could break it with a hammer. The inside and outside probably annoying to frame since no flat surface. It doesn't take a wise man to figure how terrible this all out.
@@fraided88 agreed
@@fraided88 the insulation is put in you clown
Sooo.. you're just not going to insulate it? Or.. install any electrics or water? When and how will that be installed?
Exactly.. It's 3D printed walls.. Not a house..
If you can leave a slot for windows and doors, why not HVAC and such? I think it should all be behind easily removable panels so you can get to it. Jmo.
In 1980s in Soviet Union countries when there were not enough apartments for people, they started casting walls, ceilings and floors in dedicated "house factories", then they transported them to the building site and they were building block of flats like house of cards. There are still a lot of these buildings, they are easily recognizable by the fact that they are identical to each other.
The approach was different, but the goal was the same: build faster and cheaper.
That sounds terrible. 😞
China does the same thing. Mainly for public housing.
Nowhere in this process did I see any rebar being installed, especially in the foundation where it is needed the most (That footing looked completely inadequate). You can't build a concrete structure without reinforcing it with rebar and expect it to last. Also you might be able to print the walls in 48 hours that's it, not the entire house. The rest of the house has to be built the traditional way, framing the roof, installing the electrical, etc. The concrete will also have to cure before installing a lot of these elements. A wood framing crew could easily stand the walls up on this house in one work day, that's in approximately 15% of the time it takes this machine to do it out of concrete.
Concrete is also very unfriendly to the environment and is being phased out as a construction material. These machines will also be very unreliable and require a team of technicians to fix and maintain it constantly. They are also not including the time it takes to transport and set up machine which I would imagine would take quite a while. What do you do when you have to build multiple floors? Is the machine capable of this? What do you do with the machine while you are forming or framing the floors which take considerable time? Do you leave it there idle or bring it somewhere else and then bring it back? That seems like a huge waste of time.
Can this machine work on a sloped/irregular surface? What happens if the house you want to build as larger than the machine is capable of? What happens when the elements affect the working conditions? If it is raining, too hot or too cold can this machine continue to work? If someone like me can find this many flaws (Give me a bit of time and I could find many more) in the system while having my morning coffee this system has a LONG way to go before it comes anywhere nearly as effective as traditional construction methods.
This is nothing but a novelty and will end up costing far more and taking far longer than traditional construction methods. You might be able to make this system work on a subdivision where all of the houses are on flat ground and are all similar in design, that's it.
Just my two cents:)
Your criticisms of this new-fangled fad the horseless carriage are most correct. Who would want to travel at such high speeds, especially with such a quantity of flammable liquid? The public will surely never tolerate the foul emissions or risk their lives simply to cross the street. Based on your advice I shall mortgage my stagecoach factory to double its size and production. It is surely risk-free without a viable competitor!
@@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics I gave several valid arguments as to why this construction technique has a long way to go before competing with traditional methods. I have extensive experience in this field of work so I know what I am talking about. Just so you know.
Sorry I hurt your feelings there muffin. You people get upset by pretty much every thing these days don't you? Instead of attacking people who have different opinions why don't you talk with them instead? You might actually learn something. I am still waiting to hear any counter argument to the points I made if you are capable of it.
FYI not everything new is good;)
i agree it`s way too complicated building big structures with 3d printers, but for small houses 1 storey, 2 room, 1 bathroom, this will be a game changer
Companies in China and Germany are printing multi-story concrete houses. As for the longevity, there are concrete structures with no steel reinforcement thousands of years old. They are in better climates than many places for sure, but even a fraction of that lifetime would be worth it.
No rebar, no insulation, 200mm of concrete or less and 100mm hollowon the inside, surface uneven, full off flaws, costly machine, terrible quality, looks like melted ice cream. Feels like a "Made In China" house.
Looks like a nice bungalow, and the speed is impressive. An issue is the massive land cost of bungalows, but I can see logistical problems with trying to engineer the system to produce three storey houses with a smaller footprint.
I hope this catches on and makes housing more affordable in the future.
Depends on zoning laws as well. One of the major factors that hinders affordable housing within the United States.
@@LibertarianGamer-ff5tg I think RVs should be used more. I'm not talking about cousin Eddie's tenement on wheels. Something nicer.
City won't buy it, b/c god forbid they don't get property tax. But I'll guessing it's going that way.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 the small town I just moved from had rules that allowed a large shed in the backyard but not tiny houses. Maybe you can get an exception though. I get that the authorities don't want crap built as living spaces but there should be some research and help, not hindrance, in this area.
too expensive and doesn't save much time
I like it but just wonder about composite plastics instead of concrete ? It would be less apt to crack , flexible and would be warmer feeling in the winters. I have never been a big fan of concrete.
Can you imagine if they did one using all waste plastic?
Now think the combination: fire and a plastic house 🤔
This is amazingly beautiful. I'm now going to open a construction company. Building a house never been so easy.
Except now acres will be the new real estate ripoff exploitation. Lex Luthor's dream come true.
@@commandercaptain4664 what why? Populations are declining in most countries today and will be declining world wide within a few decade. And when that happens demand will never recover and home prices will decline untill they are free
Please bring this to South Africa
Our need it asap
Use corrugated iron
Use mud and clay.
@@fraided88 really, people are just openly...nvm
3d printing sure does have a future in this world.
Fantastic idea! Rodent proof,insect proof all the insulation protected from external elements. No rebar is awesome. rebar has been shown to actually weaken because they rust and cause water channels. Many finishing possibilities great for tornado prone areas. Wiring and plumbing in the insulated cavity. Those who don’t see the advantages will soon be weened out of the building industry. Weenies as we call them. I have 30 years building with all types of construction materials in harsh winter climates and humid hot summers, concrete with fiber reinforcement (chopped up windmill blades and fiberglass boat hulls) is an extremely good material for residential and light commercial buildings. Plus i would get away from straight walls to improve air film and wind resistance. I see no problems.
But didn't they say that house cost 2.7 million? That's alot of money for a house of that size.
@@tallswede80
It's still a new technology.
Once it gets better and couple of dozen things get fixed, and everyone starts using it, prices MIGHT go down.
@@tallswede80 It was auctioned. And the first printed home to be sold. People are dumbasses and overpay to feel special. Until everyone has it. Then they just feel like an idiot. Good for them.
That rebar comment is wrong.
Finally, they are using technology. It's amazing what a little push from nature can do to species of all kinds.
Humanity has spent way too much time in a stagnant phase. Evolution doesn't happen unless our existence is at risk.
Push forward, overcome obstacles with the tools you are given and in time you too will give back as well.
This is not evolution it's just technology.
Evolution is bs .
What is it's thermal efficiency? "Ribbed look" looks nice when it's new and freshly painted but will be a nightmare to clean outside and will be a dust storage inside. What else...? Do you have any solution for reinforcing this construction? Is there any way of repairing or modifying the structure without compromising the integrity of the remaining walls? What's the cost analysis compared to traditional brick/airblock construction? What about the electrical installation and plumbing? Is it laid out when printing, is it easy to modify or does it lay outside of the construction? Is it only possible to have a single story or can it support multiple? Probably way more other questions left to address.
The only viable question should be: will it withstand all the earthquake/torchnado/flood/hurricane ravages of the inevitable post-climate world? All those others are just flipper dreams.
@@commandercaptain4664 actually those are all things European houses are build in mind with (at least privately owned ones - meaning not build to be sold but for personal usage). I live in Poland i don't have to fire up any of my active means of heating (multi-fuel furnace, gas heater or electric) until temps drop below 10*C. Not only is it well insulated and ventilated but during the day solars provide electricity for a heat accumulator that distributes heat as necessary. Yes, it is a bit of an overkill but adding a gas heater was cheap at the time and the rest was prepared in self-sufficiency in case of any problems - house is a ways off.
A great company I have even contacted them regarding investments. The demo house featured here in NY looks fabulous. With a Texas company ICON you should start really seeing these homes proliferate very soon.
what about the expense of buying one? Seems way overpriced for the footage and all.
@@KindCountsDeb3773 aren’t they 20% cheaper
Wonder what the environmental objection would be around the amount of concrete use (carbon footprint per job vs conventional methods)
Would it be more difficult to find mold in the home if the walls are sealed and there is a leak? Or what about flooding? Like the new foam Installation that often seals in water making it hard to find mold or repair electrical wires.
Something like that but with a flat concrete roof that’s also a balcony space could also be extremely resistant to most natural disasters! :)
For those wondering about electricity installation, it's not a big problem. Walls are "empty". All you need to do is drill a small hole and install wires.
Most will install the electrical at the proper stages during the printing. While the concrete is still wet. Saves from extra work drilling.
Yeah? What happens if there's any settling or the foundation shifts? I can't imagine that this will be any good in the long run. Have you ever had to deal with cracks in cement? It's like a crack in glass. It just keeps on spreading.
Exactly. Destroy the house by putting up a photo on the wall.
our old house was literally being pulled in half by shifting ground, had various parts of the house with huge crack down the center of the ceiling, but that was a house on stumps on a slanted hill.
What happens when it happens to a traditional home ?
@@superhero6297 It sags in places but it doesn't fall apart. Kind of like an old person. I have been in many sagging traditional homes.
@@KlingonCaptain sooooooooo would you rather have a cheaper house that can replaced with a another 3D print or would you shell out the unnecessary cash and complain on RUclips
Is there any Rebar in this entire place? there are 2 kinds of concrete, cracked and will crack.
Rebar causes the cracks. Spalling.
Just stacking layers of concrete on top of each other without steel reinforcement, I dont know how sturdy the walls are going to be !!!
they add rebar and insert horizontal reinforcements to the concrete.
@@larrydecoursey8056 I dont see it, show me !!!
@@haidarrossam2282 dont ypu see the gaps between the walls? Whete they put the reinforcment
how do you get the windows in, the plumbing, electric, HVaC, how do you fix anything when it breaks, who inspects it?
Looks like a game changer but I’m interested In the insulation. In terms of staying hot and cold how would that work with no extra wall layer? Also what’s the endurance like during hurricanes and tornadoes or big natural disasters
It’s a cement house. Very Very Strong. Not like wood being held together by nails and sheet metal. Like houses in Guam. You know, for the typhoons
I saw on the news that Habit Tat For Humanity had just finished a 3-D Printed Concrete House up in Virginia. I am wondering if a Mansion can be built using 3-D Printing?
I'm new to all of this and i'm confused about something. Why wouldn't these houses be 1/4th of the cost of a normal home? There is hardly any man hours, it just seems like he overhead would be WAY less. Are they charging for the convenience of speed? Why is it so expensive? Thanks
Imagine if you had 10 of these and you were in the uk building smaller homes that would be so cool to see a 3D printed terrace block
I didn't see any electrical, or plumbing vents? In the interior shots of the video, no switches or receptacles? How is the rough work accomplished?
This is a great idea and will get people and there families off the street and into a substantial and Good standardized living environment
Great video Wonder world! ☺️☺️
Thanks mate :)
when the robot was laying the lower levels of foundation it did an S pattern which i’m assuming would leave air pockets. i have no experience with house building but wouldn’t air pockets cause some future problem?
What about plumbing and electrical? I’m curious on how that would take place without interior wood framing
Great question!
Just wondering the same questions.
If you want those upgrades, that'll be another 2.7 million dollars. Remember, that's cheap!
I was thinking the same thing, they say they build the house fast but when does the electrical and plumbing go in, guess I’ll contact someone and get answers.
Plumb and wire inside the shell in the insulated area then the inner walls are finished. No fishing wire you have total freedom of placement.
How do they put in rebar for horizontal wind loads?
Do they corefill any of the walls? It just seems a little flimsy
What's holding the cement together?? Where I am from we built a foundation with concrete rod the concrete and cement blocks. It seems that 3d print is not going to be reliable.
I'm just curious how they get the utilities I know the plumbing can be run underground but now what about the electric in the walls how is that accounted for how do you get the conduit run for the power and the stubs for the plumbing
I didn’t see any outlets and how does plumbing get in the walls?
Concrete built houses have been around for decades. Icf is the most common and is capable of amazing architecture designs along with outstanding insulation.
but don't you have to ADD insulation, as cement isn't very good at it??
Cement is very porous by itself. But Icf stands for insulated concrete form. And depending on the brand of product you use, should be more than 2inches thick per side. 4 inches or more in total.
Great insulation, great structure stability, and sound reduction. And that is with one contractor touching the wall once versus four contractors touching the wall. Thus saving the Biulder money
Fast and cheap.
Will probably fall apart due to lack of flexibility, crack and wither during winter times even faster.
Wood, metal or even plastics are necessary in order for the house to flex, it needs to have some give, otherwise it'll just break.
The concrete doesn't even have steel reinforcements for crying out loud.
Plus, you still have to do all the wiring, plumbing, insulation, flooring, finishing, on and on. The skeleton of a home makes up a very small percentage of the total labor and materials.
🤯 mind blown!!!
I like the utilitarian look, I want one.
3D printing affordable homes is awesome!! Now we need to include hempcrete to use us less sand etc
1:10...How is the house "attached" to the ground?
It looks like it just sits on a sheet of plastic.
So how do you run HVAC or electrical through a concrete slab?
Also isn't this going to be extremely cold all the time since its literal concrete.. where's the insulation?
This is super cool. I wonder how much the concrete would affect chill in places like Pacific Northwest? Would it be like tile? I see how they kind of address it. Does drywall also act as an insulator?Instead of cool carpet on the floor, you could have cool carpet on the walls!
What is the energy efficiency rating on such a house? There is so many steps and details left out of this show case.
Actual cost for finished house. How is it insolated and how are pluming and electrical incorporated?
If we make wooden molds and make a house from it and fill the molds with concrete, then what will that house look like?
This is awesome. Almost all of the things you feature I have never heard of before
yes that is what I aim to showcase, everyone else does the mainstream popular topics, I find the obscure hidden gems on youtube.
I'm so impressed with this whole idea .
Doesn't matter how easy it is to make it. That only means more profit for the developers.
it won't get any worse than now. at least people will stop living in cardboard houses without soundproofing.
How does electricity and plumbing get added during this process?
I’d just use more concrete to mud-plaster the outside and you won’t be able to tell it was 3D printed! 🔥🔥 I love this!
3D Printing has a bright future ahead
Thats pretty cool tbh. Can be ran 24hrs a day too. And as for it looking layered on the outside you can always clad it to hide that or even render it. Inside will be plastered like you would now.
Cracking idea tbh
Can the walls be foam filed? Can it print a wall with sloping top like say 10' on one side and 14' on the other?
I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking, but how long will they last? Because places like Oklahoma where you have extreme heat and extreme cold, sometimes a day apart, foundation’s or slabs whatever you want to call them seem to crack after 10 to 15 years.
Only garbage quality concrete.
Isn't this foundation inefficient? The house should weight a lot, and isn't it more reliable to use ribbon foundation? What to do with reinforcement? Without steel/fiberglass reinforcement the house going to start cracking at some point.
yes, but what about insulation properties of material they are building with? a quick build doesn't automatically mean a good build, not if your heating/cooling bills are still sky high when you move in...
so many ways to build, why just settle for one idea? when you can have walls with better thermal properties than this one. For example, mudbrick or rammed earth, both of which require less cooling/heating. Also, passive solar - which means placing your main windows only on the south/north sides of the house so (for Mediterranean style climates like California or much of southern Australia) you get winter sun on your kitchen floor, but not summer sun (this relies on the fact that the sun travels at a lower arc across the sky during winter).
Hi There! Thanks for the cool video! 👍
What is the coast of this 3d printing machine?
This head is ok but i have advice . Under the nozzle i would set material boundaries on both sides with small metal plates. These two plates must be raised by a relay when the robot deviates from a straight path. I have idea to upgrade this nozzle and results be a flat structures from both sides. Now the Layers have a uneven surface , not flat
half the price of regular house? I'd like to see the cost breakdown. This price tag would imply that building the walls accounts for more than half cost of the construction which is very doubtful. There's foundations (maybe these are not needed here?), roof, floors, plumbing, electrical wirings, windows, interior... I'm sure I didn't mention it all.
The biggest expense is obviously human capital. It takes months to build a house, paying the wages of 10-20 people over that time is not cheap.
That concrete frame cost under 5000$ to build. Even cheaper because thats hollow and no rebar. No insulation etc.
So the one rule of concrete is concrete cracks. How do you combat this in a 3D printed home?
Just wondering what method you use to verify the claims made.
Is there any rebar ?? Pls tell me there's some rebars
Doesnt water pass thru concrete?
Very cool 👍
Why couldn't you smooth the exterior walls with a broom finish or trowel finish?
Next up: A space-based 3D printer to print planets and moons! How cool is that?
How is electrical and plumbing ran thought the house?
What would something like this cost? I mean if it's going to be an option to make homes more affordable will it actually be affordable?
That beautifully inspiring music and all the jobs this will take when it comes around. Thus creating more ppl who have to look for more affordable housing bc they can't afford what's in the current market. Literally creating its own customers. Hope you all enjoy trying to run coax or electrical in the walls later on when you want to change something. Also hope you all enjoy the lack of rebar and it collapsing on your during an earthquake or hurricane. All very possible without proper structural designs not existing within it. This will not last and thankfully it won't. We need more jobs to fix poverty... Not less jobs and more affordable items that will become out of reach for those that lost their jobs. These companies are just looking to monopolize as many aspects of a home as possible and aren't concerned with the lives they hinder along the way.
@Dylan Sturm I'd saying it's all three. Things that create less jobs for ppl still creates poverty.
There's jobs all over the place. Get some skills with a FAFSA grant. It's all right there.
Nobody should get a free ride. You should only get $$ if you're in trade school/training or in college. Period.
Achilles builds ... yeah in another thread they were bringing up that concrete is not very good and they will still have to put in insulation .
They also said it's not that strong and could be broken with a hammer .
Personally , I don't care for all this automation .
Back around 1969 / 1970 older students were reading a book by Alvin Toffler called Future Shock .
I remember reading it and everything this guy said has come true over the decades , especially how so many jobs would be displaced through automation and we would have a lot of unemployed people .
Lol that's not how new technology has _ever_ worked throughout human history. It creates new industries and jobs you can't even imagine, and any type of automation that makes menial human labor obsolete is a good thing. Imagine if we didn't have backhoes and bulldozers and that work still had to be done with hand tools ... we would probably still have widespread slavery and slave trading without machines and automation. And we basically still have serfdom in modern society which is based upon low-level labor jobs. Getting rid of the lowest level and hardest labor gives human beings new opportunities and openings and ultimately makes a more prosperous society, like it has done for thousands of years. Every generation gets scared of some new technology replacing old ways, but the grim predictions are always wrong and the new tech always makes human life better.
Ultimately, the ambition of mankind should be to run out of all labor jobs and make scarcity of goods a thing of the past.
@@GameDevNerd amen to that… 🙏
Up to how many floors it is possible to construct by 3d construction
I wonder about the challenges of building this in the Arizona desert where I live. Also, I wonder how the structure would fare against the straight line winds and microbursts that are prevalent here.
How different would that be from building an adobe house out of sand and clay mixture - which exists all over AZ? Re wind - I would take concrete over wood in wind ANYTIME - speaking as someone who lived in tornado alley for years and in chicago before that
Microbursts ? That a fancy way to say gusts of wind 😂😂😂😂
Incredible they can do finish with Sanding and sculpting 🙂💔!
I'm all for supporting this if it helps reduce house prices!
Out of interest does the cavity’s get filled with insulation?
Can you build pools with this?
what about insulation for the exterior walls? Desert or real cold areas are going to eat your heating/cooling bill.
im curious how they do the electrics and plumbing in it though
Wonder what the insulation efficiency is on these things
The problem of those prices you mentioned is not high cost of the materials, but really high demand
Making houses cheaper to build won't lower the price; it will just make it more profitable for the people who CAN afford to buy houses.
But it will give suppliers the ability to undersell their competitors who are still using expensive traditional building methods.
Then those competitors will have to use 3D building printers so they can lower their prices to compete.
This could be a serious game changer for places that are prone to hurricanes and other disasters.
Wow this is really amazing
no iron rods and mess wires in the concrete?
That’s gonna be a strong house lol really strong
And much cheaper because it's only a concrete.
How do you solve a problem with insulation? 3D printing a house is a great way to build, especially in warmer climates, where you don't have to worry about cold temperatures. But in the Czech Republic thought winters can become very cold. I believe there is no such way to make the robot lay or sculp anything that is going to fulfill all the requirements for passive house especially here in Europe. It's way cheaper and faster to use workers instead.
I like the idea and it looks interesting especially on the outside and does it also have somit insulation properties because of the design? the high spots are directed to the sunlight and low spot are in the shadow
In another thread there saying that concrete does not insulate well and that you would still have to add insulation .
They're also saying that it's very easy to break concrete with a hammer
I thought concrete needs some rebar if its of any size no?
The print might take 48 hours but to set up and install everything it needs to live in is the true time it takes to build the house
Kinda wish I had one of these printers at the moment :)
Can you imagine a garage sized 3D printer in the backyard that can use plastic, metal or concrete as it's material it prints with, imagine all the things you could make.