And all the blocklayers and skilled labourers will lose their jobs and ability to buy the houses, brilliant 👏
I don’t think block layer wages are the main financial stumbling block on affordable property.
No it won’t. At all.
This seems like a step backwards from modular gaffs tbh. We’ll be building a modular home in the next year or two, A rated, goes up in a few days. Fully finished barring interior fit out.
It won’t at all.
What about an estate with hundreds of houses? Where would you all of those machines? They also surely cost a couple of hundred thousand each at least, if not then a few million.
The title also says it works in uncontrolled environments. Doubt it. The video given is the most flat, sterile and controlled environment imaginable and I imagine the machine took days to calibrate just to that. You’ll also need an operator available for each machine and an engineer on call for every few machines. So much more expensive than a brick layer at this point so what is the point?
I presume this will only build like two story buildings?
So much of the cost of property is the land on which it’s built, so while this might reduce costs for one off housing out the country, it’s not really going to do much in urban areas where 6-8 story apartments (requiring different construction methods) would be more economical.
To quote Marlo Stanfield: the price of the brick, goin’ up….
There’s a lot more to building a house than laying bricks
Not by much it won’t. Actual construction costs usually comprise less that 49% of the total costs of building new property, the rest is margin, land and taxes
In the richer parts of Dublin, construction costs can be as little as 25% of the overall costs.
I like to have mortar between the blocks in my walls.
Does the robot get planning permission for you? Maybe once we build one of those we’ll have affordable housing.
Well not for blocklayers as they will be unemployed.
This stuff always looks “cool” but is extremely impractical is the majority of , if not all cases. It reminds me of all those super sped up videos of “3D Printed” homes.
You’ll notice all these inventions come out of America which is not a country we should be looking to pave the way in anyway way shape or form on how to build a house as we have far higher standards here and across the EU. Prefabricated modular housing or ICF blocks (or similar to) is the future, not this..
Now we just need a robot that can apply and approve planning permission lighting fast.
Ireland’s housing crisis will force people back to Sod/turf houses.
They’ll call it green housing….
It’s not.
I’ve seen pre-cast slabs being made now for schools rather being built with blocks, that actually seems the way forward, the inner leaf is made of site and then pieces together like a jigsaw, lot more practical than that robot
we need political will at first. when your politicians are landlords that pocketing hap money it doesn’t matter what kind of tech you have they will find a way to block it
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And all the blocklayers and skilled labourers will lose their jobs and ability to buy the houses, brilliant 👏
I don’t think block layer wages are the main financial stumbling block on affordable property.
No it won’t. At all.
This seems like a step backwards from modular gaffs tbh. We’ll be building a modular home in the next year or two, A rated, goes up in a few days. Fully finished barring interior fit out.
It won’t at all.
What about an estate with hundreds of houses? Where would you all of those machines? They also surely cost a couple of hundred thousand each at least, if not then a few million.
The title also says it works in uncontrolled environments. Doubt it. The video given is the most flat, sterile and controlled environment imaginable and I imagine the machine took days to calibrate just to that. You’ll also need an operator available for each machine and an engineer on call for every few machines. So much more expensive than a brick layer at this point so what is the point?
I presume this will only build like two story buildings?
So much of the cost of property is the land on which it’s built, so while this might reduce costs for one off housing out the country, it’s not really going to do much in urban areas where 6-8 story apartments (requiring different construction methods) would be more economical.
To quote Marlo Stanfield: the price of the brick, goin’ up….
There’s a lot more to building a house than laying bricks
Not by much it won’t. Actual construction costs usually comprise less that 49% of the total costs of building new property, the rest is margin, land and taxes
In the richer parts of Dublin, construction costs can be as little as 25% of the overall costs.
I like to have mortar between the blocks in my walls.
Does the robot get planning permission for you? Maybe once we build one of those we’ll have affordable housing.
Well not for blocklayers as they will be unemployed.
This stuff always looks “cool” but is extremely impractical is the majority of , if not all cases. It reminds me of all those super sped up videos of “3D Printed” homes.
You’ll notice all these inventions come out of America which is not a country we should be looking to pave the way in anyway way shape or form on how to build a house as we have far higher standards here and across the EU. Prefabricated modular housing or ICF blocks (or similar to) is the future, not this..
Now we just need a robot that can apply and approve planning permission lighting fast.
Ireland’s housing crisis will force people back to Sod/turf houses.
They’ll call it green housing….
It’s not.
I’ve seen pre-cast slabs being made now for schools rather being built with blocks, that actually seems the way forward, the inner leaf is made of site and then pieces together like a jigsaw, lot more practical than that robot
we need political will at first. when your politicians are landlords that pocketing hap money it doesn’t matter what kind of tech you have they will find a way to block it