643: BiggerNews August: Will 3D Printed Homes Slash Housing Costs?
BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast
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🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A 3D printed house isn’t all that different from a traditional home—except they are stronger, faster to build, easier to maintain, and cost much less than your average “stick-built” home. These 3D printed homes can be printed in as little as two days, with a crew of only two workers, using much cheaper material than traditional builders use. Does this mean that a wave of ultra-affordable homes is about to hit the market, or is this still just a futuristic theory that may never come to fruition?
We’re back with this month’s BiggerNews, as we dive into the world of 3D printed houses, the future of building costs, and how the housing crisis could be quickly solved with printable and profitable homes. Zachary Mannheimer, CEO of Alquist 3D, is here to share his knowledge on how the construction industry is about to be severely disrupted. To Zachary, 3D printed homes could help millions of Americans who struggle to find housing, as well as make housing affordable for everyday workers.
Zachary’s team designs and builds 3D printed homes, and while it may seem a bit far off to most investors, Zachary thinks we’re only a few short years away from a takeover in how housing is built. With massive cost savings for developers, immediately accessible parts for maintenance, and some of the strongest materials used in construction, 3D printed houses aren’t just a replacement for traditional homes, they’re a complete upgrade.
In This Episode We Cover:
How does 3D printing work and the new way to build residential homes
The housing inventory shortage and how 3D printed houses could be the solution
Huge cost savings and how developers could build homes for far cheaper
Comparing 3D printed houses to traditional homes and which will win in the long-run
Whether cheaper homes could help or hurt landlords and real estate investors
Creating jobs, trade schools, and technical programs around 3D printing
And So Much More!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast Show 643. |
| 0:04.4 | And six years ago, I was sitting in a presentation by a futurist. |
| 0:09.4 | I don't know how one gets to be called a futurist, but this person said he was, so I believed it. |
| 0:14.0 | And it was a great presentation. He talked about all these things. This is back in 2016. |
| 0:18.4 | All these things are going to happen in the future, one of those of which was concrete 3D printing of |
| 0:22.2 | structures. And I'd never seen anything like this before. And Norhead, anyone else in the audience, |
| 0:27.7 | and somebody raised their hand and said, hey, how long until you think that this is the norm |
| 0:33.8 | in construction? What's going on, everyone? This is David Green your host of the Bigger Pockets |
| 0:37.6 | Real Estate Podcast here today with my co-host Dave Meyer VP of Analytics at Bigger Pockets |
| 0:43.7 | and all around Big Brained Man. Today we're going to be interviewing Zachary Mannheimer, the CEO of |
| 0:50.4 | all-quist a 3D home printing company where we dive deep into the new technology behind 3D |
| 0:57.0 | printing homes, get ourselves an education and share it with you all. Dave, good morning to you. |
| 1:02.4 | I guess good evening out there at Amsterdam. Yeah, it is. It's nighttime here, but thank you. |
| 1:06.5 | It is great to be back. I always look forward to hearing what you're going to call me on these |
| 1:11.8 | episodes because I never know. That's the hardest part of this job to be frake. What am I going to |
| 1:15.8 | say in the beginning? And what nickname am I going to have in the end? It's like complicated, |
| 1:20.8 | financial, economic questions. Got it. Come up with a silly nickname for Dave. You're just |
| 1:26.0 | keeping you up at night. That's different than the one that I said on every other show. That's |
| 1:29.7 | exactly right. But it's my pleasure because I always love doing interviews with you because you |
| 1:33.3 | think of such good questions on that topic. What were some of your favorite things about today's |
| 1:38.1 | episode? Well, so this is today talking about 3D printed houses is something I've actually |
| 1:44.0 | wanted to talk about for a while and it's not something I know anything about. But you read these |
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