Please Fund More Science

Re:Please Fund More Science by thedance on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:22PM (#22731907)

Building houses in factories doesn't really solve a big problem. We're actually really, really good at building on-site. Just look at the experience of Factory_OS and their building that was "built in 10 days"[1]. While it may be the case under a narrow interpretation, it's also the case that the project spent a year in site prep, 5 years in planning and permitting, and six months after "building" it they are still detailing and finishing and are another 6 months away from occupancy.

https://factoryos.com/press/housing-development-erected-in-w...

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Re:Please Fund More Science by californical on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:34PM (#22732029)

The second sentence of your linked article says that it was pre-assembled and just needed to have the pieces fitted together on-site. It also says constructing it normally would've taken a year

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Re:Please Fund More Science by thedance on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:50PM (#22732168)

Yeah but it’s a press release. What I’m telling you is if you walk to this site today, they’re still working on it and far from being done.

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Re:Please Fund More Science by californical on Monday March 30, 2020 @06:07PM (#22732717)

My apologies, I thought you were making a point that building is fast even without pre-assembly in a factory. I see that you actually mean that the everything else takes several years, no matter how quickly the building goes up. Sorry for the misunderstanding!

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Re:Please Fund More Science by carapace on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:15PM (#22734630)

FWIW, this was ~90 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house

> The Dymaxion House was completed in 1930 after two years of development, and redesigned in 1945. Buckminster Fuller wanted to mass-produce a bathroom and a house.

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