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Re:Western Australia’s Fastbrick robot building home in thre... by grecy on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:13AM (#18457690)
Australia has extremely strict building regulations, codes and inspections. (My brother just built his own house there...)

I feel extremely confident this has been tested thoroughly, and it would not be allowed if it has not passed all tests.

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Re:Western Australia’s Fastbrick robot building home in thre... by AstralStorm on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:14AM (#18457939)
The regulations do not handle reliability, only registration of detected failures.

Most building methods that are not known to fail catastrophically are allowed. (Including among others fires, water handling, short term structural collapse and invalid administration as well as cheating on plan vs implementation.)

So it is mostly bureaucracy.

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