Re:Western Australia’s Fastbrick robot building home in thre...
by mijamo on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:40AM
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Construction costs are pretty low, it's the land that is expensive. Ao if you reduce the construction cost by 70% it probably reduces the total cost by only 10/20%, and you get something generic instead of something made for you.
Sure, what about when it costs 5-20x less?
At least in boat building you can either have:
A. Boat designed and built by someone random in a shed.
B. Boat mass produced by a company of hundreds of years of tradition and knowledge.
With some rare exceptions, you'll always want the second option. The bugs have been worked out, everything is ergonomic and safe. Easy to find parts even if they are of inferior quality.
I really don't get why houses have such a special attention. It's the most expensive possession people can have and they wanna build in a way that it's even more expensive and prone to error. Imagine if everyone built their own car...