HOUSTON, Aug. 9 (Bernama/Xinhua) — American construction startup ICON plans to complete the last of 100 3D-printed homes it plans to build in Texas this summer, Xinhua reported citing a Reuters report.
ICON, which 3D printed its first home in Austin, Texas in 2018, will begin printing walls in November 2022 at its Wolf Ranch community in Georgetown, Texas, for what the company calls the world’s largest 3D printed community.
The homes in the community are being built using a large 3D printer called “Vulcan,” a robot that is over 13 metres wide and weighs 4.75 tonnes, streamlining the construction process.
Connor Jenkins, senior project manager at ICON, told Reuters that construction began with five different crews building the wall system but has since been scaled down to one crew and one robotic printer.
He said the concrete walls are designed to withstand water, mold, termites and extreme weather.
Some of the completed 3D-printed homes, which range in price from $450,000 to $600,000, have already had homeowners move in. More than a quarter of the homes have been sold.
The couple who moved in said that while the 3D-printed walls provide effective protection from heat, their thickness interferes with radio waves.
— Bernama/Xinhua News Agency
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