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"In a quiet street in the city of Wyndham, in Melbourne’s outer western
suburbs, a house is being built. The slab has been laid, the frame is being
printed.
Almost silently, cement piping that looks like soft-serve ice-cream is
methodically poured by a giant robotic crane.
This will be Australia’s first 3D-printed multi-storey house.
“I’m going to live in it personally,” says Ahmed Mahil, the CEO of Luyten, the
Melbourne-based company that is printing the house.
“I’m not just selling it to people, I actually trust the science behind it.”
At the heart of Australia’s housing crisis lies a central issue: there are not
enough homes. Also, over the past 15 years, we’ve become slower at building
them.
The average build time for standalone houses has slid from nine months to 12.7
months (a 40% increase), while apartment construction timelines have blown out
from 18.5 months to 33.3 months, Master Builders Association data shows.
Mahil says he is about to move into the answer to that problem."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
