Building a house by hand can be both time-consuming and expensive. Some homebuilders have chosen to automate part of the construction instead. A new Ukrainian homebuilding startup called PassivDom uses a 3D printing robot that can print parts for tiny houses. The machine can print the walls, roof, and floor of PassivDom’s 410-square-foot model in about eight hours. The windows, doors, plumbing, and electrical systems are then added by a human worker. When complete, the homes are autonomous and mobile, meaning they don’t need to connect to external electrical and plumbing systems. Solar energy is stored in a battery connected to the houses, and water is collected and filtered from humidity in the air (or you can pour water into the system yourself). The houses also feature independent sewage systems. Since the startup launched in spring 2017, it has received more than 8,000 preorders in the United States for its homes, which start at $64,000. The first 100 ones will be delivered in January 2018. Check out the homes below. Doors, windows, appliances, an alarm system, solar panels, and the septic, electrical, healing, cooling systems are then added. PassivDom is not the only company using 3D printing to build homes. The San Francisco-based housing startup Apis Cor, Dus Architects in Amsterdam, as well as Branch Technology from Chattanooga, Tennessee, say they can construct homes in mere days or weeks. The startup believes 3D printing is a cheaper, more efficient way to build homes that it can sell at a (relatively) affordable price. “Over 100 million people do not have a roof over their heads,” Sorokina said. “It is necessary to build more affordable houses.”
California and California -based start-up PassivDom is speeding up the home construction business with its 3D robot, which can print out the walls, roof and floor of a 410 sq ft building, its smallest model, in eight hours . The company, whose homes range in price from $ 97,000 to $ 97,000 , said the design and production of its larger models can take January , a fraction of the time a traditional home takes to build, while only windows, doors, plumbing and electrical systems are fitted by a human. PassivDom 's first 100 US homes will be delivered in up to a month .