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Printed Buildings Update in a TED talk
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There is a TEDx talk from a fellow named Behrokh Khoshnevis, who is a professor of engineering at USC, where he directs something called the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies. CRAFT has stated as its grand challenge “building a custom-designed house in a day while drastically reducing the costs, injuries, waste and environmental impact associated with traditional construction techniques.” The applications of such rapid-fire housing are endless: affordable housing for the poor; “extraterrestrial buildings constructed from in situ materials”; emergency FEMA-style housing, and the like.
Contour crafting looks interesting but it is developing far more slowly than China's factory mass produced skyscraper system (being developed by Broad Group of China. Still it is good to see progress on this method as well.
See more and subscribe to NextBigFuture at 2012-08-15 23:40:43 Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/08/printed-buildings-update-in-ted-talk.html
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