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The world’s largest community of 3D-printed homes is being built in Texas — and the neighborhood just unveiled its first completed house.
Icon says the 100-home project in Georgetown will be the first large-scale 3D-printed housing development in the United States.
Austin-based Icon has made quite a name for itself in the budding 3D printing construction industry. In 2022, the company unveiled a 2,000-square-foot luxury home with printed walls in Austin.
Each 3D-printed home is a single-story 650-square-foot structure built using a concrete-extruding printing apparatus called the Vulcan II, developed in partnership with ICON. [6] [7] The homes each take 24 hours to build, and cost $4,000, a fraction of traditional construction costs. Printing homes also provides "design freedom" in that ...
How much does a 3D-printed home cost? According to Business Insider, Icon said it could create a 600- to 800-square-foot building for as low as $4,000 in 24 hours.. More substantial homes with ...
The 90 to 200m 2 3D printed homes take around five to seven days to print, compared to a timber frame which would take up to 16 weeks in the same area. [22] ICON also completed a project in March 2020 for seven 3D-printed homes in Austin, Texas. Each 400 ft 2 home was printed in just 27 hours using ICON's Vulcan printer. The first residents ...
Dozens of 3D-printed homes have been built across the world – to house a family in the US state of Virginia or members of an impoverished community in rural Mexico. The world’s largest 3D ...
As with any desktop 3D printer, the Vulcan printer pipes layer by layer to build an object – except this printer is more than 45 feet (13.7 m) wide, weighs 4.75 tons and prints residential homes.