The test showed the 3D-printed structure withstood a 7.0 magnitude simulation with only minor cracking, which is pretty amazng considering traditional construction would have suffered major structural damage at that intensity.
I’m really shocked we don’t already have companies churning out 3d printed homes in 2025. This tech was supposed to be a dramatic shift, and yet there’s still no large scale building attempts that I’ve heard of to actually live in.
With how promising we were told this tech is, I thought by now we’d have printed housing throughout the world, and already printing the early stages of a moon base.
It seems cool but it’s really just printing a frame right? It’s not going to print the plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roof, septic, etc. That’s where a lot of the big costs for material and labor come in. I suspect this is why we haven’t seen this take off. Modular homes seem to have become popular and seem like a much more realistic way to mass produce homes because they can be made assembly line style in one place and then assembled on site.
I mean yeah, but they probably compare them to American “houses”. Those flimsy paper constructions can’t stand against some wind let alone an earthquake. Building a house out of some form of stone would be a better comparison.
