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3D-printed homes are created using large concrete 3D printers, and they are typically more affordable than traditionally constructed homes — plus, they’re also built in a sustainable fashion.
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 ...
The first ever commercial permit to build a 3D-printed house was given in February 2020 and the largest community 3D printed homes in the world — 100 of them, designed by the renowned Danish ...
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.
ICON is creating a community of 100 3D-printed homes in Georgetown, Texas. Reservations will begin in 2023 with starting prices in the mid $400,000. The fleet of Vulcan printers can produce eight different floor plans of 3 to 4 bedrooms and 2 to 3 baths. [ 22 ]
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.
This led to many new endeavors that reached the media, such as, in 2017, the first pedestrian 3d printed bridge [114] and the first cyclist 3d printed bridge, [115] plus an early structural element made with 3d printing in 2016, [116] among many others.
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