While these buildings are not about to challenge the mainstream in western countries, 3-D printer construction could find applications where there is little market for current techniques, owing to cost or other difficulties. That might mean housing the world’s billion poorest people, but it could also mean erecting fantastical, currently impossible-to-build structures in the deserts – or
Richard Lewis helps take the mystery out of financing your construction project. Jeffrey: This is Jeffrey Veffer from Incite Design, and we are often asked at an early stage in a project about some of the financing options that clients might use to finance their renovation or complete new build. I’m very pleased to have
David Rose helps clients complete renovations in Toronto. In over 35 years of overseeing renovation projects, he has “seen it all” and can anticipate the pitfalls that can come up during a renovation. In our conversation, David talks about the number one things clients fail to understand about the renovation and remodelling process and how to get
On Now Toronto’s site there is a good discussion of the recent consultations taking place to determine how Toronto can implement laneway housing as an additional stock of rental accommodations. Even though Vancouver has allowed laneway housing since 2009, Toronto has been slower to move in this direction. Some of the challenges have been around servicing
We have seen other examples of printed housing, but as with anything, there are limitations with any process. In other examples, the walls and other elements are printed indoors and then shipped to the site to be assembled. Or there are limitations on site because of the size and complexity of the printer. This method
This castle was printed in concrete by adding layer after layer through a computer controlled nozzle. The turrets and some other parts were assembled separately then mated with the rest of the structure.
Patrick talks frankly about supply and demand pushing prices over $1 million for a house in the city of Toronto and the influence of foreign money increasing prices. Jeffrey: I’m here with Patrick Rocca who’s with Bosley Real Estate here in Toronto, and I know we’ve had Patrick on a few times in the past
All it takes is one small mistake and your home improvement project can run way over budget. If you want to keep your remodel from eating up your savings, avoid these major missteps before construction even begins. In a recent survey, Consumer Reports spoke with 300 general contractors to find out what breaks people’s budgets
Carbon Upcycling: Turning Carbon Dioxide into CO2NCRETE from UCLA Luskin on Vimeo. Did you know that that the production of cement is one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions? Around 5 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions comes from concrete. Even though concrete has been with us for centuries (actually the Roman’s
This may sound unbelievable – almost half of the materials purchased to build a house are thrown into the garbage. It may sound absurd, but conventional construction methods (concrete blocks and mortar) are used to build 100 square metres in the developing world, up to 45 per cent of raw materials are wasted. In most
One of the challenges with building houses is the scale of materials and machines required to assemble components on site. Until now, this has been beyond the range of most 3D printers which have been designed to fit on a desk rather than a dusty construction site. Recently Russian engineer Nikita Chen-yun-ta unveiled a new
Building houses quickly and on a very tight budget through additive manufacturing is a very interesting proposition. It would afford builders huge amounts of design flexibility, giving way to unusual but highly functional structures that simply couldn’t be assembled any other way in challenging locations. 3D-printed houses may be about to become more commonplace as
How would you go about building housing on another planet? As you might guess, every pound you try to fly out of the earth’s atmosphere is a serious penalty to the amount of range or the amount of fuel you’d need to carry. Which is why Foster + Partners proposes that printing buildings with semiautonomous
The revolution in 3D printed housing is well underway. But the challenge continues to be how to 3D print at an architectural scale? Additionally is there a way to print ‘in-situ’ or at the end location of whatever structure is being created? The answers are starting to become clearer now and in this recent project
As builders and architects challenge conventional wisdom in how to build structures, technical challenges are becoming apparent as this promising technology emerges from its infancy. One of the most apparent challenges is printing the scale of objects in conventional building like walls, floors and roofs. At the moment, 3D printers are better at jewelry than