PREFAB PRINTS REPHRASED

The main point here, and in the last posts I submitted on the topic of prefab 3D printing at scale, is that while most printed full size structures are done from the ground up, this might not actually be optimal. What I am suggesting here is that when we have fully developed 3D printing, at scale, techniques similar to off site prefab or on site tilt up concrete construction might be an improvement upon the ground up approach. We will see. The construction industry might go this way it might go another. If full scale is anything like desktop printing, then a prefab approach is going to be better in many respects (about those later).

Here are a few suggested steps for the prefab approach.

Step 1. Print by component. Can be prefab or on site –this is a matter of equipment availability.