• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

    • OpenPassageways@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      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.