contour crafting – Impact Lab

3D Printer, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Future, Home Technology

Dubai sets its sights on 3D printing 25% of its new construction by 2030

June 15, 2017

Starting as a niche technology, 3D printing has been around for a long time. And talk of how this technology could transform the construction industry, largely theoretical, has long circulated, too. But now, thanks to young entrepreneurs Chris Kelsey and Fernando De los Rios, we can expect to see 3D printing robots on building sites rather than hundred of masons in Dubai, and around the world.

The Silicon Valley-based duo has joined forces with the Dubai government, which has set a target for 25% of buildings to be 3D-printed by 2030 in the emirate.

Continue reading… “Dubai sets its sights on 3D printing 25% of its new construction by 2030”

3D Printer, Architecture, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Engineering, Futurist, Great New Product

Japan’s 3D Printed Pod Skyscrapers set to Revolutionize Highrise Living

April 15, 2017

Could the skyscraper of the future dispense homes like a vending machine?

Growing and adapting to Tokyo’s housing demand, this Pod Skyscraper is constantly under construction. Residents can order a ready-to-use modular dwelling manufactured by 3D printers on the top floor of the building, and then cranes lower it into place.

Continue reading… “Japan’s 3D Printed Pod Skyscrapers set to Revolutionize Highrise Living”

3D Printer, Engineering, Future, Home Technology, Housing, Latest Trend, People Making a Difference

First 3D printed house in Russia for $10,000

March 4, 2017

As we start to 3D-print everything — including houses, of all things — it’s pretty impressive that a company built one in just 24 hours.

Located in Russia, this 400-square-foot home (37 square meters) was built in just a day, at a cost of just over $10,000.

Continue reading… “First 3D printed house in Russia for $10,000”

3D Printer, Alternative Transportation, Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Energy, Latest Trend, New Viewpoints, People Making a Difference, Robots, Science & Technology News

101 Endangered Jobs by 2030

November 7, 2014

Futurist Thomas Frey: Business owners today are actively deciding whether their next hire should be a person or a machine. After all, machines can work in the dark and don’t come with decades of HR case law requiring time off for holidays, personal illness, excessive overtime, chronic stress or anxiety.

Continue reading… “101 Endangered Jobs by 2030”

Architecture, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Latest Trend, People Making a Difference, Photo Perspectives, Science & Technology News

Disposable Houses

April 25, 2014

Disposable housing will blindside the real estate industry
in virtually every country on earth

Futurist Thomas Frey: When it comes to doing something first, and winning the technology race, there are typically no official forms to fill out, no rulebooks, no judges, and certainly no deadlines.

Continue reading… “Disposable Houses”

Analysis, Architecture, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

How contour crafting will change construction

March 18, 2014

Contour crafting

3D printing has incredible potential to overhauling manufacturing. The same principles could upend building construction too.

Continue reading… “How contour crafting will change construction”

Architecture, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

A 3D printer that can build a house in 24 hours

January 10, 2014

The technology is known as Contour Crafting.

Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis, at The University of Southern California, has built a colossal 3D printer that can build a house in 24 hours. Khoshnevis’s robot comes equipped with a nozzle that spews out concrete and can build a home based on a set computer pattern. (Video)

Continue reading… “A 3D printer that can build a house in 24 hours”

Architecture, Great New Product, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

The 3D printer that can print a 2,500 square foot house in 20 hours

November 5, 2013

Contour crafting.

There have been huge advancements in 3D printing. We have seen 3D printed oversized wrenches that measure 1.2 meters in length. Now. we can print an entire 2,500 square foot house in 20 hours. (Video)

Continue reading… “The 3D printer that can print a 2,500 square foot house in 20 hours”

Architecture, Great Videos, Science & Technology News, Space

3D printing will be used to construct buildings here and in outer space

September 30, 2013

An example of Contour Crafting.

Researchers at the University of Southern California believe that within a couple of years 3D printing techniques will be used to construct entire buildings in less than a day. (Video)

Continue reading… “3D printing will be used to construct buildings here and in outer space”

Analysis, Business, Great Videos, Latest Trend, People Making a Difference, Photo Perspectives, Science & Technology News

Printable Houses and the Massive Wave of Opportunity it will bring to Our Future

April 7, 2012

Futurist Thomas Frey: All the way back in March of 2004, working in his laboratory at the University of Southern California in San Diego, Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, was working with a new process he had invented called Contour Crafting to construct the world’s first 3D printed wall.

His goal was to use the technology for rapid home construction as a way to rebuild after natural disasters, like the devastating earthquakes that had recently occurred in his home country of Iran.

While we have still not seen our first “printed home” just yet, that will be coming very soon. Perhaps within a year. Commercial buildings will soon follow.

For an industry firmly entrenched in working with nails and screws, the prospects of replacing saws and hammers with giant printing machines seems frightening. But getting beyond this hesitancy lies the biggest construction boom in all history.

Here’s why I think this will happen.

Continue reading… “Printable Houses and the Massive Wave of Opportunity it will bring to Our Future”