@@hopjo6356 Ты прав. И я уж не знаю, чем они там усиливаются. Вообще, очень сомнительная технология. Фактически бессмысленная, если ты хочешь иметь нормальный дом с нормальной крышей. Кроме того, надо понимать, что строит он лишь стены, а у тебя ведь и другие элементы денег стоят. Фундамент, кровля, отделка всякая, утепление надо продумать нормально, шумоизоляцию и всё прочее. А ещё смешно слышать про пониженное количество цемента в смеси, конечно.
I love the notion of 3D printed buildings in general. That said. I expect it would be possible to attach an automated "trowel"(or maybe plural), to the nozzle assembly, and have it smooth as the print proceeds. The patterns work with some structures/parts of structures, but it'd be great to have the option of a "baked in" smooth finish, where desired. And there would be a small material saving too.
@Matt Risinger You need to build a wall and then show it being sledged hammered. It would be helpful to see how durable to strikes like that. Unless it's been done.
@@robertvandeveer1846 agreed, however, most of Matt’s jobs are custom builds for reasonably affluent clients, and his channel also focuses on industry trends. Personally, I don’t see these 3D printed homes having widespread appeal, but that doesn’t mean the tech won’t apply to certain situations.
Love to see it and consider the possibilities. Would like to see how the utilities (water, air, electric, etc) are handled. Particularly with an eye to updates in the buildings lifetime (new wire, new outlet locations, changing room locations, ...).
I really love this style, technique, all of it. I do think I'd have it colored though rather than basic concrete grey so it didn't even need to be painted on the inside (outside I'd want it waterproofed).
Benchy? I imagine bridging could be implemented by adding fiberglass tow (ribbon) ahead of the extrusion with a bit of lead in and lead out to anchor the ends. Something like what electroimpact does with their fiber placement machines. The final print head effector reminds me of some sheet metal punch and laser machines that have a fast fine adjustment tool head to make up for the slow and inaccurate movements of the main gantry.
Imagine how upset the aliens are going to be when they go to check on their property and there’s one of these houses on their property that’s only zoned for camping.
Bro I’m so impressed now, you are definitely using the technology’s capabilities when are home shape is no longer a basic square box. So cool and 1000 percent more sustainable. I would never prefer a wooden house over a stone one. I would love to see some beautiful large inlaid stones that says money inside and outside. There structure looks like money. I am a designer, can I work with those bad ass doods and Alex? Houses could become works of art more than ever by optimizing cost and refining the details through design and programming. Thank you Alex for making us look like we are actually evolving and providing a real modern solution to sustainability.
the walls strength still varies a lot by chemical composition of walls. But in general, concrete is heavier than timber walls. so you know how they do.
@@royromano9792There is a way. The larger the house the better the square footage because of economies of scale. Their technology scales up a lot better on larger houses compared to traditional construction because the majority of their overhead is setting up the 3D printing machine. If you notice the latest version was designed to just drive in and start printing.
I wonder how they deal with rain when printing because a lot can happen in 400 hours. On another note, there’s a company in FL called ONX that makes homes out of precast walls and precast bathrooms. It’s done in a factory and then transported and assembled on site pretty quickly. Would be nice if Matt would do a video a lot that.
Given all the advantages, $80 a square foot is *insane.* Expect these walls to becoming the standard in custom home builds. At least for the first floor.
Show us the material interfaces and penetrations. Ie how is rising damp protected against, how is the roof affixed, how are windows fitted? Too much of the monolithic layers being paid attention to.
see 3.29 to 3.30 - you can see the recesses there - I was also curious how the windows were integrated into 3d printed walls and achieving the thermal discontinuity required by regs / building codes.
Supposedly incredible sound insulation too. Very hyped for 3D printing construction. Society would benefit so, so much from reducing the cost of housing. By far the biggest cost keeping people poor. If we figure out the tech, all we need is a revamp of the land distribution system
Those grooves are going to collect a lot of dirt and be hard to clean. Mending cracks are going to be hard, and "break" the continuity of the lines. Perhaps plaster over them for a smooth surface.
It's great in areas with perpetual flood risk due to broad floodplains and occasional tropical storms. Austin and much of the eastern half of Texas qualifies.
So obviously it’s in the POC stage - putting it through the routine that those gantry units no doubt went through? The whole “star wars set” vibe thing isn’t much to my personal tastes/liking, but no doubt they’ll settle-down to more “normal” designs/styles… I still see this building method to be a “boutique” approach used wherein time/site access, costs and other limiting factors are in place, requiring an off-beat approach to quickly getting a structure in place… I’m assuming this won’t be a “real thing” during what’s left of my time here on earth (maybe 20yrs +/-)
I haven’t watched to the end so maybe it’s covered, but living in earthquake country, I am always concerned about how they are reinforcing the walls. Concrete construction around here has a ton of steel rebar in it. I see a few wires spread out in these, but not very much.
There needs to be more homes built for the sun's position in the sky. Large south facing windows in the northern hemisphere help heat the home in the winter, not many modern home designs take that into consideration.
It reduces labor, but increases complexity and material availability. This is a huge barrier to entry for most established firms and eliminates DIY. What I see this tech most useful for are niches like quickly building very resilient structures. Both irrelevant for most traditional buyers. Military and disaster relief, however, would make great applications. Imagine a much simpler system that only prints dome shaped "huts". Extremely storm resistant, energy efficient due to the shape and low collapsebility. An army base could be built bullet resistant within days.
The shape and style follows the function of the pouring technique. Kind of like how the Cybertruck's faceted shape follows the material it is made of. The resulting shapes are likewise striking and controversial, however. I am still skeptical about living in such odd spaces with deeply textured interior walls.
$80 is what a friend of mine is paying for a shell with a roof on his addition (siding and windows extra). But he spent a lot on steel beams to support the weight, would be cheaper otherwise
Printing on the moon? How are you going to overcome the effect of a near vacuum on water and prevent it from expanding and boiling out of the concrete?
Is there a reason you didn't use a concrete pumper truck as the base to start from? It's designed to pump concrete. Yes, it has a hose but you could remove the hose and put your head on it. You could also put an accelerometer on it to with a learning algorithm to keep the wabble down and put two cameras on towers watching the head that can have computer vision tracking balls on it.
Dumb question. Has anyone done destructive testing on this material yet? YES, it's supposed to tell our BRAINS how durable it is. But things like blowing up an ICF room, or trying to burn a block of RockWool? Those also inform YOUR GUTS as well about how tough it is.... Not asking anyone to blow a whole freaking house up. Byu trying to set a human on breaking through a "Lavacrete" wall with a fire axe??
yes, you have to do these tests in order to call it a house and sell it. No, its not a dumb question. The problem is that with the various cement sources, water mixes, and varieties of concrete, it varies, but in general these walls are concrete, and you know concrete stronger than wood
Insulation is good. Not only the hollow walls themselves but also the air gap between them. They spray or insert additional insulation also. www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/82865.pdf
Concrete has tremendous compressive strength and little flexibility. Concrete structures can last thousands of years or less than a decade depending on the load design. Rebar reinforcement inevitably interacts with water and will damage the concrete structure.
Insulation is good. Not only the hollow walls themselves but also the air gap between them. They spray or insert additional insulation also. www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/82865.pdf R value on a standard 12” wall starts at R22 and goes up from there depending on fill and other factors.
The UK built a lot of concrete houses post war. Now banks will often require significant renovations or just not provide mortgages for these homes. While there's obviously been a lot of progress in building since the 50s; with the well known decay of a lot of the US's concrete infrastructure from the same time, I would be concerned whether a house would last 100 years, like you can reasonably expect a wood-frame building to.
Why exactly are masonry built houses going to have that decay? THey all have some sort of exterior whether it be paint or shiplap etc. Perhaps the UK build a lot of houses with crappy concrete mixtures. I would expect a masonry built house to last longer than a timber built structure easily. We got 2000 year old roman structures made of concrete that still exist. Where are all the roman timber built houses that still exist?
New green innovation: Instead of polluting, water hungry toilets, you simply dig a hole outside and relieve yourself there. Then you hope there are no disastrous consequences. Environmentalism
@@OffOfTheCuff Its better to just poop where you are instead of going outside. It saves you the energy of walking outside to poop. Just poop on the floor beside you. Environmentalism
They probably can't, unless..... Printed houses are presently selling from a minimum of $225 (Detroit, is the lowest per square foot I have seen) to well over $400 a square foot for others that were very simple builds.... Icons own houses sold with prices ranging from $475,000 to $570,000, or 270 to 300+ a square foot, and were very simple builds.... So do the math on what you would get for $80 bucks a square foot..... Nothing, unless they sell it to you at an extreme loss..... 80 bucks, is smoke and mirrors, and not going to happen........
Imagine someone uploading 3D image of hogwarts university for wizards with this thing an base it off the movie or game a future amusement park or theme park would be just amazing to explore an interact...if not VR it
I'm sure ICON has hired plenty of pessimists like yourself to try and poke holes, but I'm pretty sure the smart people at NASA are working with ICON to resolve any issues. The last thing they want would be a disaster on the moon.
Would really like to see this against a tornado and hurricanes. These could be game changers in the midwest and along the coast.
이거는 허리케인에 무너짐 벽사이 빈공간이라 미세한 진동으로 벽이 갈라짐 3프린트집은 철근 문제해결해야됨 철근없이 콘크리트는 오래못간다
@@hopjo6356 Link the story. Not one story came up in a google search.. Where did this happen?
@@hopjo6356He says they place rebar.
I think theyre rated to 200 to 250 mph. They survived a 7.4 earthquake in mexico. And yes, there is reinforcement.
@@hopjo6356 Ты прав. И я уж не знаю, чем они там усиливаются. Вообще, очень сомнительная технология. Фактически бессмысленная, если ты хочешь иметь нормальный дом с нормальной крышей. Кроме того, надо понимать, что строит он лишь стены, а у тебя ведь и другие элементы денег стоят. Фундамент, кровля, отделка всякая, утепление надо продумать нормально, шумоизоляцию и всё прочее.
А ещё смешно слышать про пониженное количество цемента в смеси, конечно.
I'd love more art in architecture. These homes are beautiful!
I just watched like 4 videos in a row, and to see the print quality here was an extremely noticeable change. This was amazing.
I love the notion of 3D printed buildings in general. That said. I expect it would be possible to attach an automated "trowel"(or maybe plural), to the nozzle assembly, and have it smooth as the print proceeds. The patterns work with some structures/parts of structures, but it'd be great to have the option of a "baked in" smooth finish, where desired. And there would be a small material saving too.
checkout urschel's wall. 1930s 3d printer technology. it has smooth walls.
Blower door test?
How is it even a build show video without it?
@Matt Risinger You need to build a wall and then show it being sledged hammered. It would be helpful to see how durable to strikes like that. Unless it's been done.
It would be awesome if these 3d printed house companies would let matt do a durability test vs cinder blocks, icfs, etc.
Or gunfire
Do you ask that of a regular builder? Gimmick approach to showing durability.
@@robertvandeveer1846 agreed, however, most of Matt’s jobs are custom builds for reasonably affluent clients, and his channel also focuses on industry trends.
Personally, I don’t see these 3D printed homes having widespread appeal, but that doesn’t mean the tech won’t apply to certain situations.
Interesting. Reminds me of the architecture of Nader Khalili.
Would be great to see this continue to get better!
Very cool tech. Would love you to do a deeper dive as to mechanicals’ integration as well as roof structures and wind lift
Marvelous, can you please encourage construction companies to start build houses using the new technology. Thank you.
Love to see it and consider the possibilities. Would like to see how the utilities (water, air, electric, etc) are handled. Particularly with an eye to updates in the buildings lifetime (new wire, new outlet locations, changing room locations, ...).
I really love this style, technique, all of it. I do think I'd have it colored though rather than basic concrete grey so it didn't even need to be painted on the inside (outside I'd want it waterproofed).
We're seeing the future I believe. Thanks, Matt, for bringing us such great videos about this!
So hype for this. We need this everywhere!
I live right by there! I saw it peak up above the fence one day, pretty cool
Benchy?
I imagine bridging could be implemented by adding fiberglass tow (ribbon) ahead of the extrusion with a bit of lead in and lead out to anchor the ends. Something like what electroimpact does with their fiber placement machines.
The final print head effector reminds me of some sheet metal punch and laser machines that have a fast fine adjustment tool head to make up for the slow and inaccurate movements of the main gantry.
Imagine how upset the aliens are going to be when they go to check on their property and there’s one of these houses on their property that’s only zoned for camping.
Haha
😂
If it happens at all, it's only cause they let us do it. 😓
There goes the neighborhood 👎🏼👽
It’s continuous trespass in north carolina
Bro I’m so impressed now, you are definitely using the technology’s capabilities when are home shape is no longer a basic square box. So cool and 1000 percent more sustainable. I would never prefer a wooden house over a stone one. I would love to see some beautiful large inlaid stones that says money inside and outside. There structure looks like money. I am a designer, can I work with those bad ass doods and Alex? Houses could become works of art more than ever by optimizing cost and refining the details through design and programming. Thank you Alex for making us look like we are actually evolving and providing a real modern solution to sustainability.
How is the strength and earthquake resistance considering there is NO rebar in the concrete.
We need this in Hawaii!!!
Great Demo
This is amazing, great company, wow!
0:28 what uh, what was the inspiration for the design of that?
I've been waiting to see aerodynamic builds on the coast. Just wondering how they would fare in high winds or tornadoes
the walls strength still varies a lot by chemical composition of walls. But in general, concrete is heavier than timber walls. so you know how they do.
Cool stuff Matt! 😃👍🏼👊🏼
Full house, walls, and roof for $80/sf is good and in custom shapes and sizes.
Yeah, there is no way.
@@royromano9792There is a way. The larger the house the better the square footage because of economies of scale. Their technology scales up a lot better on larger houses compared to traditional construction because the majority of their overhead is setting up the 3D printing machine. If you notice the latest version was designed to just drive in and start printing.
I just hope this is revolutionary for affordable housing
Surprise not to hear the word regolith during the moon discussion
What does the material consist of? is it fire proof or resistant same with water wind pressure, sound proof and temperature stabilization?
I wonder how they deal with rain when printing because a lot can happen in 400 hours.
On another note, there’s a company in FL called ONX that makes homes out of precast walls and precast bathrooms. It’s done in a factory and then transported and assembled on site pretty quickly.
Would be nice if Matt would do a video a lot that.
3:!9 are there no footers or foundation? Printed right on the compacted (?) dirt?
Fascinating
Given all the advantages, $80 a square foot is *insane.* Expect these walls to becoming the standard in custom home builds. At least for the first floor.
Legit question, What do you do if you over time experience foundation problems causing the walls to crack?
*How does wiring and plumbing work?*
A concrete saw
Look at their last vid, they go over it in detail.
Who cleans that mess
And good luck fixing a plumbing issue in the future
Show us the material interfaces and penetrations. Ie how is rising damp protected against, how is the roof affixed, how are windows fitted? Too much of the monolithic layers being paid attention to.
Cool. What happens if it rains when printing? What about earthquake resistance?
The future is now!
You could be chilling like a villain with that thing.
Can this concrete printer be used to print under ground structures such as storm shelters or bomb shelters?
I really need to look into the process of booking the machine, though id rather buy it, like any other equipment.
This is definitely the future.
Bleak future. Repairs, changes, renovations will be impossible. I give it 20 years and they will be knocked down.
Id like to see a video on how recessed windows are constructed. Ive spent hours researching and cant seem to find any
see 3.29 to 3.30 - you can see the recesses there - I was also curious how the windows were integrated into 3d printed walls and achieving the thermal discontinuity required by regs / building codes.
Are these structures hurricane and tornado stable?
What happens if it rains during printing?
Interesting
Where are they going to get the water for printing on the moon?
Cheers
So how exactly are electritians and plumbers supposed to run their stuff through the walls? Where is the insulation?
What about earthquake resistance?
And moonquake!
they use a heavier foundation and they use rebar to make sure its stronger, but in a 10.0 earthquake everything is on the ground
Supposedly incredible sound insulation too. Very hyped for 3D printing construction. Society would benefit so, so much from reducing the cost of housing. By far the biggest cost keeping people poor. If we figure out the tech, all we need is a revamp of the land distribution system
Opinions May differ
Pretty sure the government and their insane regulation and taxes are keeping people poor.
What about rebar? Is it even needed?
I had to spend a lot of elementary school sitting in the corner. This construction would have been helpful
@@billw5189 well how nice for you. It wouldn't have helped me they gave me the dunce cap
@@deadmanswife3625I suppose if they used this to make the cap, the deterrence factor would have been higher.
@@tracy419 🤣❤
Exciting, these guys are paving the way to the future!
No they aren't.
Companies like this have been around for decades and never deliver.
@@sparksmcgee6641 R&D takes time, that falls entirely within expectations
I've been hearing about this technology for over 5 years now, when will it be deployed for the average consumer?
I wouldn't hold your breath
Those grooves are going to collect a lot of dirt and be hard to clean. Mending cracks are going to be hard, and "break" the continuity of the lines. Perhaps plaster over them for a smooth surface.
If you’d only watched the first 4 minutes you’d hear them talk about stuccoing the structure.
@@CarlosBenjaminwho has time for that?🤔
I think the real strength of 3D printing houses is in areas where wood structures are impractical, which makes their choice of Austin, Texas bizarre.
It's great in areas with perpetual flood risk due to broad floodplains and occasional tropical storms. Austin and much of the eastern half of Texas qualifies.
How would this be repaired if it became damaged
no more punching walls during an argument with the wife. lol😅
I’m more interested in how plumbing, electrical and aircons are installed in these houses.
What about rebar? Windows? Roof?
So obviously it’s in the POC stage - putting it through the routine that those gantry units no doubt went through? The whole “star wars set” vibe thing isn’t much to my personal tastes/liking, but no doubt they’ll settle-down to more “normal” designs/styles… I still see this building method to be a “boutique” approach used wherein time/site access, costs and other limiting factors are in place, requiring an off-beat approach to quickly getting a structure in place… I’m assuming this won’t be a “real thing” during what’s left of my time here on earth (maybe 20yrs +/-)
I haven’t watched to the end so maybe it’s covered, but living in earthquake country, I am always concerned about how they are reinforcing the walls. Concrete construction around here has a ton of steel rebar in it. I see a few wires spread out in these, but not very much.
There needs to be more homes built for the sun's position in the sky. Large south facing windows in the northern hemisphere help heat the home in the winter, not many modern home designs take that into consideration.
Thermal performance? Concrete tends to act like an oven heating up the inside of the building unlike traditional earthen buildings.
It reduces labor, but increases complexity and material availability. This is a huge barrier to entry for most established firms and eliminates DIY.
What I see this tech most useful for are niches like quickly building very resilient structures. Both irrelevant for most traditional buyers.
Military and disaster relief, however, would make great applications. Imagine a much simpler system that only prints dome shaped "huts". Extremely storm resistant, energy efficient due to the shape and low collapsebility. An army base could be built bullet resistant within days.
The shape and style follows the function of the pouring technique. Kind of like how the Cybertruck's faceted shape follows the material it is made of. The resulting shapes are likewise striking and controversial, however. I am still skeptical about living in such odd spaces with deeply textured interior walls.
Hurricane resistance?
If youre like me and tuned in right at that moment, at one point Matt says 50,000 psf but he means psi.
Nope he converted to psf from psi
$80 is what a friend of mine is paying for a shell with a roof on his addition (siding and windows extra). But he spent a lot on steel beams to support the weight, would be cheaper otherwise
Awesome
Printing on the moon?
How are you going to overcome the effect of a near vacuum on water and prevent it from expanding and boiling out of the concrete?
That's intense, 17 hours to build. Sign us up!
17 days
The inside of a concrete shell will have a terrible echo. You can add materials to damp down the echo, but that will increase the cost of the house.
Where does the material come from? And how many ingredients are in the material
Pumicecrete is pumice cement and water
Will it help with making a home affordable, though 🤔
Is there a reason you didn't use a concrete pumper truck as the base to start from? It's designed to pump concrete. Yes, it has a hose but you could remove the hose and put your head on it. You could also put an accelerometer on it to with a learning algorithm to keep the wabble down and put two cameras on towers watching the head that can have computer vision tracking balls on it.
Dumb question.
Has anyone done destructive testing on this material yet?
YES, it's supposed to tell our BRAINS how durable it is.
But things like blowing up an ICF room, or trying to burn a block of RockWool?
Those also inform YOUR GUTS as well about how tough it is....
Not asking anyone to blow a whole freaking house up.
Byu trying to set a human on breaking through a "Lavacrete" wall with a fire axe??
yes, you have to do these tests in order to call it a house and sell it. No, its not a dumb question. The problem is that with the various cement sources, water mixes, and varieties of concrete, it varies, but in general these walls are concrete, and you know concrete stronger than wood
What's about insulation?
the walls are two different paths of concrete, so after it has dried, they spray insulation down in the middle
Insulation is good. Not only the hollow walls themselves but also the air gap between them. They spray or insert additional insulation also. www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/82865.pdf
Insulation should be printed too
Great video Matt, and great product ICON.
Concrete has tremendous compressive strength and little flexibility. Concrete structures can last thousands of years or less than a decade depending on the load design. Rebar reinforcement inevitably interacts with water and will damage the concrete structure.
Are those hard hats 3D printed?
Would love to know the R-value of the walls. I guess it's near zero.
Insulation is good. Not only the hollow walls themselves but also the air gap between them. They spray or insert additional insulation also. www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/82865.pdf
R value on a standard 12” wall starts at R22 and goes up from there depending on fill and other factors.
The UK built a lot of concrete houses post war. Now banks will often require significant renovations or just not provide mortgages for these homes. While there's obviously been a lot of progress in building since the 50s; with the well known decay of a lot of the US's concrete infrastructure from the same time, I would be concerned whether a house would last 100 years, like you can reasonably expect a wood-frame building to.
Why exactly are masonry built houses going to have that decay? THey all have some sort of exterior whether it be paint or shiplap etc. Perhaps the UK build a lot of houses with crappy concrete mixtures. I would expect a masonry built house to last longer than a timber built structure easily. We got 2000 year old roman structures made of concrete that still exist. Where are all the roman timber built houses that still exist?
I see No electric plumbing doors or windows???
You can see the frames for the doors in the last bit. They also go over the pluming and electric in the previous vid.
New green innovation: Instead of polluting, water hungry toilets, you simply dig a hole outside and relieve yourself there. Then you hope there are no disastrous consequences. Environmentalism
@@OffOfTheCuff Its better to just poop where you are instead of going outside. It saves you the energy of walking outside to poop. Just poop on the floor beside you. Environmentalism
@@davidanalyst671 And that is what many of the wonderful third world cultures do so it must be superior
Other homes they’ve made they show in detail but I think this one was just structure concept on the new printer
WOW!
light printers are a step in the right direction but it's still way to slow and makes no sense because it's only the walls...
What happens when a large tree fall and destroys a section of that printed house?
Now do that with hempcrete.
Hempcrete can't flow through the nozzle too chunky
they could print a cool Yakhchāl
If they can really do 80$ per square foot they might do well… but will they really?
They probably can't, unless..... Printed houses are presently selling from a minimum of $225 (Detroit, is the lowest per square foot I have seen) to well over $400 a square foot for others that were very simple builds.... Icons own houses sold with prices ranging from $475,000 to $570,000, or 270 to 300+ a square foot, and were very simple builds.... So do the math on what you would get for $80 bucks a square foot..... Nothing, unless they sell it to you at an extreme loss..... 80 bucks, is smoke and mirrors, and not going to happen........
No longer is this just another wall system when you can print the roof along with it.
What about remodelabiliyy?
jack hammer and cement bags
That is where luke Skywalker was born
I wish the 3D printer pooped out standard cinder blocks.
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Imagine someone uploading 3D image of hogwarts university for wizards with this thing an base it off the movie or game a future amusement park or theme park would be just amazing to explore an interact...if not VR it
Tons of curved walls in their designs, inside and out, that's very difficult to do with traditional construction.
Waterproof versus water impervious.....
Alex looks like he can be your brother
Good luck trying to make that building airtight on the Moon
I'm sure ICON has hired plenty of pessimists like yourself to try and poke holes, but I'm pretty sure the smart people at NASA are working with ICON to resolve any issues. The last thing they want would be a disaster on the moon.
I’d like to see someone build a bunker using this be safe everyone
Really one guy stayed up for 400 hours??? That's amazing
Caffeine is a helluva drug.
Yes Yes it is
thats a lot of piss bottles