How Will 3d Printing Affect the Process and Quality of Constructing Housing in the 21st Century?

3D printing is unprecedented innovation that promises to be extremely valuable as manufacturing technology with a very various user. 3D concrete printing is an innovation of erection process that will provide significant progress in construction industry. Construction execution is evolving frequently due to growing challenge and complication in projects, which require efficient, safe, and fast method to deliver their project. The 3D concrete printing will play important role in sustainability in terms of optimizes recycled materials usage, consumption of energy, and environmental impact. With Final design of the project one click can build multistory house in one day. Concrete is extruded throw nozzle to construct structural component layer by layer without utilizing framework. The method will apply the way we design building component easily with less error potential.

The great thing about having technology is that it allows us to things we couldn’t have done 30 years ago. Now that our lives have changed, we can do almost anything with a click of a button. With new advances, we are successfully capable of thinking better and faster, we are exposed to a wide range of information that benefits the people today and situations we experience

People’s perspective of housing has changed greatly over time. Starting with the resource, limitations, and availability of everything that is needed. All of these things has shaped and helped form our society and social interactions. Houses in the 1900’s were very small, compact spaced structures. The ceiling heights were low, and the rooms usually weren’t air conditioned unless the house had windows, or the family had enough money to support their family and buy an air conditioner.

The history of American housing is vast and in some areas complex, the Native Americans lived in harmony with the land and saw it as an extension of themselves and used it to their advantage when building shelter. Early settlers in the plains had to become resourceful in how they constructed their shelters. The industrial revolution gave raise to better, faster and more consistent materials. Mass influx of veterans coming home after World War II and a housing shortage brought a need for more housing. In modern society people are looking to lessen their impact on the environment while they continue to strive for the American dream. The one constant throughout these phases in American housing history is the need for protection for the elements and somewhere to call home. How has how has the American house changed over time? What factors have influenced these changes?

There are many advancements in technology being made rapidly, and there soon may be a major change in the way we live our daily lives. In the medical field, many new things in technology are being tested to allow more affordable healthcare. With education, new ways of teaching are being used, and a more effective learning environment is in the process of development. Also, many new ways of transportation are being created to cut down on travel time. Lots of new technology is being created to enhance human life with more efficient tools and devices in mainly the fields of medicine, education, and transportation.

Housing changed drastically during the early 19th Century, whether it be the size, the shape, or the construction. Houses started out as a simple log cabin, one maybe two large rooms for eating, sleeping, and occasionally cooking (which was mostly done outdoors). During the 18th century most people did not care about the symmetry during the building process, especially when it came to the placing of windows and doors. There was also not much time put into planning rooms for privacy, sleeping arrangements, and living rooms. As time passed on changes were made, men wanted houses bigger and stronger, more fancy with multiple floors. In the living history novel The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840, Jack Larkin wrote, “Between 1790 and 1830,

3D printing is a means of revolutionising almost any and all aspects of life. The potential to bringing into the physical world anything that can be conceived in the mind (and created on a computer) brings a myriad of variety ; expanding markets and capabilities, whether new or improving products and processes that are already in practice. 3D printers are falling in price as the technology improves and the want for them increases making the ability to create anything domestically more practical , this would allow for an influx of material that would be hard to control or monitor, this can include guns, weapons and equipment for drugs manufacture along with the mundane domestic items like faucets, plugs or pots. Such a possibility would involve the morals of the manufacturer and the ethics of the wider collective that have an input on the advancements, though there are other limitations that play a part in the progression of 3D printing that are independent of ethics. As the technology and concept has the potential to create anything, it doesn’t not yet have the capability to do so therefore the anticipation of the possibilities is the only preparation the 3D printing industry can do, as a result I shall conduct an investigation looking at the extent of ethical and moral influences as well as physical and scientific limitations and how they could limit any potential advancements, in accordance with the resulting benefits from some upcoming advancements in

3D printing technology is changing the way we view the world. With a few keystrokes on the computer and a 3D printer, you can create anything from toys, guns, and even prosthetic limbs (Carter 2014). However, there are now companies within the Unites States and the world, who have begun experimenting with the feasibility of creating structures out of concrete through this same 3D printing process. With the current trend, these companies estimate they can construct new buildings from start to finish in under one day (RT 2014). Even with the US and the world facing a housing crisis,

Early Chinese housing was much like that of the rest of the world: cave dwellings. Where caves were not available or the geology could not support such dwellings, nest dwellings were an alternative. Until resources and building techniques were improved, the caves provided superior protection from the elements during the winter with nest dwellings providing a better ventilated area during the hotter summer days. Permanent dwellings began to emerge with the introduction of earth pounding techniques. This provided a stable foundation and the use of bricks was later developed for use as the base. It was around 2100 BC to 500 BC in which the most significant improvements in housing emerged. The use of slave labor combined with the influx of new and different ideas from repeated conquests shifted the housing styles from in ground, to elevated platforms. This shift in technique was seen in Chinese housing up until the modern times. The three bay houses were the most common type of elevated home. Larger multi-bayed houses existed, even large complexes, to accommodate an extended family. However, a larger home was a sign of greater wealth.

Hod Lipson, a well-known robotics engineer at Cornell University, once said, “The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off” (Lipson). This dated quote has now become a reality. The new expansion in technology has led to 3D printing becoming a new revolutionary process that is going to further industry. 3D printing is being used in multiple fields such as medical, food, automotive and even education. The use of this new technology has opened doors for new learning and new horizons for future inventions.

A recent report done by industry consultancy and analysis firm McKinsey & Company said that 3D printing could cause some major advantages in the global economy after some few years. One being that with consumers expecting more personalized features in the products they want to buy this would mean that more time has to be spent making the products to the customers desires, it also means more value can be built into a product which, in return could be used to generate customer loyalty and more income to the business (Maxey, 2014).

Hull of 3D Systems Corp created the world’s first working 3D printer; however, the upward trend of the device receiving attention from the public eye has become relevant in the year 2013. Since the year of 1983, inventor Charles Hull, along with various other manufacturers interested in this technology, have worked on it in a way such that it is more efficient when compared to the original model. 3D Printing or addictive manufacturing is simply, a manufacturing process in which material (plastic, metal, or other) is laid down, layer by layer, to form a 3-dimensional object. It is deemed an additive process because the object is built up from scratch, as opposed to subtractive processes in which material is cut, drilled, milled, or machined off (Hoffman, 2011). Forbes online magazine has stated that this printer is in fact one of the top ten technological trend that has been witnessed in the year 2013 (High, 2014). The innovation of the 3-D printer is extremely fascinating to me, for it correlates with many positive outcomes in society. The advancements made within addictive manufacturing calls for major propositions in the medical field, such as the printing of organs, limbs, prosthetics and so on. With the availability and production of such products to those in need, progression, like the increased life expectancy of an individual, is becoming more and more of a reality. The potential outcomes that accompany 3D

3D printing has been used in different aspects of every field but mostly its application has been limited to making prototypes. 3D printing versus Traditional Manufacturing techniques in almost every field is still very debatable. One such area which I would like to explore in terms of functionality and cost effectiveness would be the Construction Industry.

3D printing has been used in different aspects of every field but mostly its application has been limited to making prototypes. 3D printing versus Traditional Manufacturing techniques in almost every field is still very debatable.

3D printing has been quoted by the Financial Times and from other sources as, “Possibly being bigger than the internet”(Jun 21, 2012). The earliest 3D printing technologies first became visible in the late 1980’s. There are multiple different types of 3D printing technologies, which process different materials in unique ways to create the desired object. Since the emergence of 3D printing, developments and improvements to the process and the materials has greatly expanded the various applications. 3D printing was invented as a means of speeding up the early stages of product development, using simple material, and multiple applications.