3D-printed homes for sale

this is the house that jack built is a nursery rhyme which might need an update how about the house jack printed here's ben tracy it looks like some sort of industrial soft serve machine precisely pouring its pattern one layer at a time what this giant robot is doing is hard to wrap your head around it's printing a house this is a house 25. jason ballard is the ceo of icon a company in austin texas using massive 3d printers to redesign home building and so is the future that we're all going to be out for a walk some night seeing robots building houses down the street robotic construction is absolutely our future this is a complete transformation in the way that we approach sheltering ourselves in the way that we approach building this nearly five ton machine follows a computerized blueprint and can build the entire wall system of a home with a concrete mixture in less than a week traditional construction is used for the foundation the roof wiring and plumbing but printing the walls is several times faster than wood framing and icon says the concrete structures are highly energy efficient and can better withstand natural disasters so this house has curves that's right and you don't have to live in a boring box these wavy 3d printed walls will eventually become this high design home 3d printed homes are rare but they're starting to pop up all over the world these domes in italy were printed out of dirt in 200 hours and another company plans to build the first 3d printed neighborhood in the united states in the california desert near palm springs so why are they catching on cost and speed icon is trying to cut the cost of construction in half while building homes twice as fast something some housing market experts doubt is possible but what's not in question is that the u.s is currently 4 million homes short of buyer demand we need housing for homeless folks we need affordable starter houses we need middle market houses so we need more of every kind of house period also construction work is hard this doesn't get tired yes humans get tired doing this kind of work but humans need jobs there's a nationwide shortage of skilled labor and construction professionals we're filling a gap where there's not enough jobs so this bedroom right here could be a home office could be a guest bedroom holo soriano and his fiancee shea craig have been struggling to buy a home in austin's red hot housing market each of these houses was printed in about a week they came to look at some of the first 3-d printed homes for sale in the country the first level of this four bedroom four bathroom house is printed concrete the second floor is conventional construction it will be listed for around seven hundred thousand dollars so would you seriously consider buying something like this absolutely 100 yeah this is really such a good value in terms of space and the amount of bedrooms you know we want to start a family one day we definitely need extra bedrooms to accommodate that so [Laughter] this is the way we should be building jason ballard is also using this new technology to shoot for the moon his company is working with nasa to design 3d printed shelter for astronauts who could one day live on the moon and mars i think this makes construction exciting again and it's inspiring and hopeful to have a solution

Channel: CBS Sunday Morning

Views: 602,641

Keywords: CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, news, 3d print, house, robot, austin, icon, habitat building technology, technology, science, housing, homes

Id: A7-PATZNZYY

Length: 3min 42sec (222 seconds)

Published: Sun May 23 2021