First Ukrainian school built using 3D printer technology - WION

[TexasTowelie]

Europe's first 3D-printed school is taking shape in Ukraine. The goal of 3D construction is not to be cheaper, but to be faster. This project is not cheaper than conventional construction, but it is ten times faster.

[lapfog_1]

1. way back in the early 1980s

I was living in Denver which was undergoing a huge construction boom. Every Christmas the builders would decorate the high rise cranes in Christmas lights and I remember counting at least 17 of them in Denver Tech Center.

My friend from work and I would drive from our office to get lunch and drive by a new corner strip mall that seemed to sprout from nowhere. We would joke about the helicopters flying in every night a big vat of "universal manufacturing paste" slung under the copter, find a empty corner lot and "splat" there would be a new strip mall with a couple of fast food places, a dentist, a nail salon, a 7-11 type place, and a few "odds and ends" stores.

Now I get to see it happen for real... only a new school. Same universal manufacturing paste. minus the helicopter.

[Hekate]

2. Very prescient on your part!

[lapfog_1]

3. The grey stuff coming out of the "robot"

reminds me of a scene from the movie "Groove Tube"

so they sort of planted the idea.