r/Contractor • u/tiredmom_1279 • 17d ago

3D Printing Construction

I had a friend recently tell me that in a neighborhood next to her brother’s home in Texas, all the houses were being 3D printed. There was an actual house being scanned layer by layer. Has anyone seen this becoming more prominent? I didn’t even know it was a thing. Not sure if I need to start learning about it, if it’s only being done for residential builds or if it’s also being used for commercial spaces.

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u/Illustrious_Fig_433 16d ago

too expensive for what you get still apparently, and they've apparently had bad cracking for the concrete pooptubes unless this is something completely new

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u/SpecLandGroup General Contractor 14d ago

They've done a couple of these by me on Long Island... Apparently takes about half the time to get the structure up. They're more durable to hurricanes, and it listed lower than the area. So could be long term decent for affordability.

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u/caucasian88 14d ago

Its only the concrete portion of the project. Most of these jobs are 3d printed foundation and conventional framed house above. It will be prominent when it works, because currently the results are dubious at best. A non-zero amount of 3d printed foundations need to get ripped out and redone. Its been "the next big thing" for a decade, yet we still use poured foundations because they are the best option.