Comment on Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoYou can’t see it getting any better? Has history not shown new technologies can change in ways unknown to the original inventors?
Comment on Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoYou can’t see it getting any better? Has history not shown new technologies can change in ways unknown to the original inventors?
overzeetop@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t; at least no in our lifetimes (I’ll call that 50 years). I’ve been an engineer in the building industry for 25 of my 35 professional years, and I’ve watched multiple “disruptive” technologies progress and mature. 3D printing may very well become a useful tool for complex building geometry in certain niche markets but it will not take over any substantial part of the building industry during the life of any adult today. And I say that as someone who has helped new technologies to market, done design for nearly every (non-3d printed) material around (cordwood, straw, timbercrete - hell, I had a guy call me who wanted to build a garage out of 400 surplus 19" aluminum server racks he got at an auction).
3D printed walls will go right up there with geodesic domes, hyperbolic parabaloid concrete, and (as much as I hate to say it) structural insulated panels. It’s not that there is anything wrong with it, or the other methods I mention, it will simply not achieve mass adoption due to a combination of appearance and cost competitiveness of the finished product.