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Digital Printing And Its Effect On Building Houses

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Your next house could be made out of concrete, by a 3D printer, in 20 hours. 3D printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing, is revolutionizing the way we build houses. This topic is extremely important, as it could save us time and money. While it could be expensive to build the printers and research the idea, this new idea of this construction method is worth the preliminary investment because 3D printing saves money on building materials, labor, and building 3D printed homes releases half the pollution of a normal construction site. Currently, the commercially available 3D printers we have are only able to print in plastic. Some custom printers are able to print in concrete, such as the Concrete Printer by Andrey Rudenko, or the printers owned by the company Win Sun, based in Shanghai. But no printer is capable of printing an entire house, so far the printers are only able to print out the pieces. Each piece is assembled into the house at the construction site.
If we had a strong enough and large enough printer that could print entire houses, many communities that suffer from homelessness problems could set up some kind of funding to be able to provide housing for many people, and homelessness would no longer be a problem the United States has to bear any longer. The 3D printers you can buy on the internet are around $500 for a basic printer, to $4500 for a professional home printer. A printer of significant magnitude and size able to print in concrete is estimated

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