First 3D Printed Home Available to the Public Will Soon Come to Market
New York builder Kirk Andersen says the demand for his soon-to-come 3D printed single-family home is off the charts. The excitement comes from Andersen’s 900-square-foot model home, which offers a preview of the $299,000 1,500-square-foot three-bed, two-bathroom home. And the price is just half of other newly built home listings in the area. It will be the first-ever 3D printed home available to the public, according to CNBC. Andersen runs SQ4D, a 3D printing company with barely a dozen employees, hoping to revolutionize the building industry with its Autonomous Robotic Construction System.
After a lot of testing, they printed the foundation, interior and exterior walls and utility conduits for the model home in just two days.
It looks like a massive spout squeezing out concrete toothpaste in long lines, but the result is an incredibly solid, resistant structure. The raw walls look a bit like concrete corduroy, but they can be smoothed depending on the buyer’s tastes.
It requires little labor to build, and the price is low — two potentially attractive points as the industry contends with a severe labor shortage and high material costs.