As the Financial Times said recently in its How 3D printing could transform building design: “It appears this is a technology whose time has finally come.”
Serious 3D-printed construction technology continues popping up in pockets of excellence worldwide.
Shanghai, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Stuttgart, Rome, just to name a few, are putting forth some marvelous machines that just might redefine home-tech construction much sooner than anticipated.
Two have engineered government contracts (Los Angeles and London); some are putting up structures on spec; others are hoping to engage investors in order to go mainstream with commercialized products, and still others are doing it to either refine their machines or out of love for their craft.
And each seems to be in a big hurry to prove itself and then to get about building real-world structures for real people ASAP!
If somehow they were all co-located together to form a single next-gen construction company, watch out!
The facts are clear that the building and construction industry could benefit wildly from robot innovation, even in small doses:
Fact: Construction is a global $4.6T mega-business with a 25% decline in productivity over the last 40 years.
Fact: Construction and building-site trash, i.e. wood, metals, asphalt shingles, bricks, tiles, glass, concrete and gypsum—which amounts to 30% of the of the 2.2B tons of solid waste produced annually worldwide…with the amount of annual waste slated to double by 2025
Fact: The building and construction industry lose billions of dollars a year because of its inefficiencies.
Fact: In home building, the potential for robots to save costs is even more pronounced: standard cookie-cutter, rectilinear design of new homes would realize 20 to 25% savings on financing; 25 to 30% savings in materials and 45 to 55% savings in labor.
The webcast will present a breakdown of drivers, major players, investment opportunities and market sizing for the impact of robots on building construction and built-environments:
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