The house builder Lennar and the construction technology company Icon plan to create a 100-unit project near Austin, Texas next year3D printingA community of houses, which is so far the United States3D printingThe largest development project of this category of housing. The analysis said,3D printingThe market is approaching a tipping point that may completely change the construction industry.
The house builder Lennar and the construction technology company Icon plan to create a 100-unit project near Austin, Texas next year3D printingA community of houses, which is so far the United States3D printingThe largest development project of this category of housing.Icon has been built before3D printingHousing, if this project is successful, it will be3D printingA strong proof that the technology can be applied to larger-scale housing construction. Icon CEO Jason Ballard said, “We are building from one or dozens of houses to hundreds of houses.”
Unlike traditional materials such as steel, aluminum, and wood,3D printingThe structure is built by machines extruding the cement mixture layer by layer from the nozzle, like a soft swirling ice cream cone. This has the same manufacturing process as the manufacturing of dental implants, aircraft parts and other products, but on a much larger scale.From past data, Icon’s3D printingHouse prices are slightly lower than market prices. According to the Wall Street Journal, Icon’s previous four-family housing project in the Austin area with builder 3Strands was its first attempt to build a two-story house.Wall use on the first floor3D printing, While the second floor is constructed in a traditional way.In this project, a two-bedroom house was priced at US$450,000, and the final sale price was US$530,000; a four-bedroom house3D printingThe price of the house is close to US$800,000. The prices of these houses are slightly lower than similar houses in the area. In this cooperation project with Lennar, Lennar has not yet determined how the houses in the new community will be priced, but they may be similar to other Lennar-built houses in the area.
Currently, the U.S. real estate market is one of the industries most affected by supply chains and insufficient inventory. Affected by the supply chain interruption caused by the epidemic, insufficient stocks of construction materials such as wood and cement, and the blue-collar workers with unemployment compensation are unwilling to return to the labor market, these have hindered the construction of housing projects in the United States, lengthened the construction cycle, and increased Construction costs, thereby affecting housing supply and affordability.3D printingHousing has the potential to solve some of the problems in the US real estate market because it provides a cheaper and more efficient way to provide housing for those who need them.
According to Axios citing market researchers from Guidehouse Industries, after years of research and development,3D printingThe market is approaching a tipping point. Considering the current shrinking construction profits and labor shortages,3D printingIt is possible to completely change the construction industry. Analysts also admitted that3D printingIt will take several years for the building to be widely adopted.
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