Groundbreaking 3D-printed home construction projects are slated to finish in 2023.
Using printers to build the walls of a home could reduce the project's build time, cost, waste, and required physical labor.
The CEO of Alquist believes more homes will be printed than built traditionally by 2027.
Brick and wood framed homes are so 2022.
New US home sales dropped sharply in June, data showed on Tuesday.
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Next year, homes built using 3D printers could be the hottest trend in the home construction industry.
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Throughout 2022, homes built using 3D printers have popped up across the world from a luxury house with printed walls in Austin, Texas …
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And the momentum behind printed homes won't be slowing down in the new year.
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Several major 3D printing construction projects are slated to finish next year.
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And by the end of 2023, we could see people living in 3D-printed homes made of recycled plastic …
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… studying in printed schools …
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… and reserving units for a 100-home community built with the help of several printers.
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The housing market has been in flux over the last few years amid COVID-19, inflation, supply chain restraints, fluctuating demand, and rising interest rates.
People walk by a sold sign in front of a house along the Erie Canal in Pittsford, New York, on Monday, Sept. 6, 2021.
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A 3D printer can't solve all of these problems.
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But proponents of the construction tech — like Zack Mannheimer, CEO of 3D printing construction startup Alquist — believe printing may alleviate some of the sore spots in the traditional home building process.
Using 3D printers to build houses reduces the time, cost, waste, and physical labor needed to construct a home.
The 3D printer.
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In the future, these cuts will be more dramatic.
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But as of now, many companies have yet to achieve what they say will be the full potential of the nascent technology.
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And the majority of startups are only printing the layered walls, leaving the remainder of the home to be built "traditionally" …
The site of the 3D-printed home.
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… although this is already making the building process "radically faster and meaningfully cheaper," Jason Ballard, the cofounder and CEO of 3D printing construction startup Icon, told Insider in March.
Icon's over 2,000-square-foot House Zero in Austin.
A traditional construction project that takes six to seven months to build can currently be completed in five to six months using a printer, Mannheimer told Insider in May, noting that the goal is a four-month timeline.
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And as of now, printed homes are only marginally more affordable than traditionally built homes.
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But these prices could continue to drop as more construction companies scale the use of 3D printers, Mannheimer said.
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And if his projections are correct, we could see 3D printers at every construction site by 2025.
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As of now, the industry-wide integration of 3D printing construction tech may be hard to believe.
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But in 2023, we could begin to see the start of this rapid shift toward printed buildings.
Icon's over 2,000-square-foot House Zero in Austin.
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Alquist has plans to build 200 concrete homes in southwest Virginia within the next five years.
And the company is working with Muscatine, Iowa, and the city's local organizations to print a collection of 10 homes next year, Marci Clark reported for KWQC.
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