Apparently the sky is now the limit when it comes to 3D Printing...

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Apparently the sky is now the limit when it comes to 3D Printing...

JohnRBaker (Mechanical)

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1 Jun 16 04:33

A 3D Printer Made This Building — And People Actually Work There

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/3d-print-offic...

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MacGyverS2000 (Electrical) · Answer 1 · 2016-06-01 10:04:55

I call complete BS on that article... so many crucial elements are missing from the story as to make it useless. $140k to erect a (what looks like ) 300'+ building? It would cost more than that just for the crane!

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MadMango (Mechanical) · Answer 2 · 2016-06-01 12:22:56

Reading the article, as long as the sky is limited to single stories.

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jhardy1 (Structural) · Answer 3 · 2016-06-02 00:36:10

@MaGyverS2000:

The photo is a bit misleading - it's not the high-rise in the background, it's the one-storey office in the foreground. The office has a gross floor area of 250 square metres (2690 square feet).

The article says the building cost $140,000 to erect, which I take to mean is the 2-day site installation cost (craneage and joining the modules together etc - similar to the site component of setting up a demountable project office for example), not the total project cost.

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Apparently the sky is now the limit when it comes to 3D Printing...