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Fast-growing Dubai, where something new is always being added to the skyline, may have found a way to make construction move even faster.
The Gulf commercial hub on Tuesday announced plans to add the world's first office building made using three-dimensional printer technology to its collection of eye-catching buildings.
Mohammed al-Gergawi, the United Arab Emirates' minister of Cabinet affairs, said the project is part of a broader effort by the seven-state federation to embrace cutting-edge technology and make it a global hub for innovation.
"This building will be a testimony to the efficiency and creativity of 3-D printing technology, which we believe will play a major role in reshaping construction and design sectors," he said in a statement.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/dubai-plans-build-printed-office-building-32125155
delrem
(9,688 posts)Just imagine if it were so in Qatar, too. For example.
They could make the desert bloom.
They could educate their population, and they could be something extraordinary.
But no, the Earth has these idiots in charge.
TexasTowelie
(112,418 posts)The Middle East doesn't have a monopoly on idiots after all.
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)TexasTowelie
Are we closer to replicators than ever hoped for? - If this is feasible - it would shange how we build homes - forever...
Diclotican
lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)The computer won't put those millions of parts together: Humans will. How many people will loose their jobs over this debacle?
Can you even imagine the parts roster?
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)Yes, robots are taking over a worrisome number of jobs, but its like my Uncle Murray used to say dont worry, you can always get work as a bricklayer.
Oops, check that. An Australian engineer has developed an industrial-sized brick-laying robot that can put down hundreds of bricks per hour, 24 hours a day, with superhuman precision.
The giant robot is named Hadrian, after the Roman empire who assembled a massive defensive wall in northern England to keep out formidable Scottish highlanders. (Good policy, that.) Engineer Marc Pivac put more than a decade of research and development into the system, which hes now shopping around to potential commercial partners.
Hadrian begins by using computer-aided design (CAD) to determine the precise placement of every brick in a given structure to within one hundredth of an inch. Hadrian then cuts its own individual bricks and shuttles them along the articulated arm of a 28-meter-long telescopic boom.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/robotic-bricklayer-can-build-a-house-in-two-days-150630.htm