From pizza to car parts to nearly anything else manufactured, there seems to be no limit to the potential of 3D printing. This is now including homes! According to Chinese company WinSun, their 3D printers can produce up to 10 ten complete houses in a single day. Perhaps one day we’ll see entire neighborhoods being built up in a matter of weeks.
Why are homes important?
Homes create warmth, stability and family life. According to Habitat for Humanity, home ownership can help empower families and the develop the community. One, owning a home can be a big boost to any man or woman’s self-esteem. People who own their own places love to invest in their home. Whether that’s a new coat of paint, mowing the lawn, or trying to “keep up with the Jones’”, home ownership makes people feel better about themselves. When families own their own home and care to invest in their property, neighborhoods become safer, nicer, and increases in value. Research suggests that children who grow up in homes—as opposed to renting—tend to perform much better in school and develop relationally and emotionally, due to more stability. Homes are better for the entire family.
Why 3D print a house?
Unfortunately, not all of us can afford a custom-built home. Some of us will move into cookie-cutter subdivisions, but there’s no shame in that! 3D printing can rapidly print many components of a home, such as walls and other features. Also, since additive manufacturing is so precise, they can even print specific patterns into the wall that help prepare for electrical wiring to go into the house. Now, those subdivisions go up even faster.
But that’s not all. 3D printing homes can save time, money, and our planet. Read below to find out how!
Why Construction Companies Should Start Using 3D Printing:
1) 3D printing is environmentally friendly.
The best unique selling point of 3D printed houses is their environmental friendliness. The 3D printers that you would use to print a house uses rubber or reusable oil-based material, etc., as their primary building material. These eco-friendly materials reduce the carbon footprint, reduces the air pollution, and significantly cuts down tons of debris. Furthermore, the materials are easy to transport, which further saves transportation pollution. For once it seems we get to save economically without sacrificing the quality of our environment.
2) 3D printing is affordable for nearly everyone.
Maybe not all of us dream of living in a subdivision with look-a-like homes scrunched together like bird houses. But if all you want is our own space that you own, additive manufacturing may be a wonderful, albeit non-traditional, way to go. Now building your own home is more affordable than ever with 3D printing. You might not be able to build a mansion with traditional brick and mortar, but starting at $5,000, you can have a place to call your own. 3D printers can create concrete walls and other house-building elements, such as corrugated fillers, domes, and concrete. Avoid large loans and high interest all together. These additive manufactured homes have the potential to help solve the global housing crisis.
3) 3D printing simplifies construction.
Maybe not all of us dream of living in a subdivision with look-a-like homes scrunched together like bird houses. But if all you want is our own space that you own, additive manufacturing may be a wonderful, albeit non-traditional, way to go. Now building your own home is more affordable than ever with 3D printing. You might not be able to build a mansion with traditional brick and mortar, but starting at $5,000, you can have a place to call your own. 3D printers can create concrete walls and other house-building elements, such as corrugated fillers, domes, and concrete. Avoid large loans and high interest all together. These additive manufactured homes have the potential to help solve the global housing crisis. aChanges in the design and requirement add a lot of cost and time to the construction project. Companies might require specialized equipment and personnel to verify whether the construction is as per the prescribed standards or not. However, with 3D printing, companies directly read from the 3D digital model and can print the structures with accuracy. This can either be done off-site or on-site and later on assembled at the location. The 3D printers are making construction more reliable and cheaper for the companies looking to provide affordable housing.
Initially, the construction companies might face some bottlenecks at the start, but it’s a viable option for housing today.
