The test showed the 3D-printed structure withstood a 7.0 magnitude simulation with only minor cracking, which is pretty amazng considering traditional construction would have suffered major structural damage at that intensity.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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I’m really shocked we don’t already have companies churning out 3d printed homes in 2025. This tech was supposed to be a dramatic shift, and yet there’s still no large scale building attempts that I’ve heard of to actually live in.
With how promising we were told this tech is, I thought by now we’d have printed housing throughout the world, and already printing the early stages of a moon base.
It seems cool but it's really just printing a frame right? It's not going to print the plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roof, septic, etc. That's where a lot of the big costs for material and labor come in. I suspect this is why we haven't seen this take off. Modular homes seem to have become popular and seem like a much more realistic way to mass produce homes because they can be made assembly line style in one place and then assembled on site.
No, they have a method of laying the plumbing and electrical work with it. They’ve been doing this for damn near 10 years already, which is why I’m surprised they haven’t expanded into more building.