Printing Homes in 3-D

3-D printers are changing the way architects and builders make models for their clients, but a start-up in California is actually working on a giant printer that will build buildings in life-size.

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September 14, 2010, 1:00 PM PDT

By Tim Halbur

Ashlee Vance writes in the New York Times:

"Its printer, which would fit on a tractor-trailer, would use patterns delivered by computer, squirt out layers of special concrete and build entire walls that could be connected to form the basis of a house.

It is manufacturing with a mouse click instead of hammers, nails and, well, workers. Advocates of the technology say that by doing away with manual labor, 3-D printing could revamp the economics of manufacturing and revive American industry as creativity and ingenuity replace labor costs as the main concern around a variety of goods."

FULL STORY: 3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution

Monday, September 13, 2010 in The New York Times

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