That's misleading when comparing this.
There's a typical expectation of manufactured parts or prepared wood for a wood frame building. (It's not instantaneous to season wood for house building, and it's longer than this structure drying)
I have looked into building a house a few month ago, the wait time for the structural lumber components to be manufactured to the spec - 3 months. "Raising the barn" part is hardly the long part.
Re:A house 3D printed from raw earth
by throwaway316943 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:00PM
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Houses can also be “stick built” from lumber on site. The trusses will usually be manufactured so that they are all identical but they are generally quick barring any backlog of work.
Well lumbar is expensive too now.
True. The question is if that is just a temporary thing or the new normal. I suspect prices will be back to 'normal' in a year
There was a deep dive about this in Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast. Although some of the price increase was due to the industry predicting lower demand and getting rid of inventory. Another, more fundamental factor is the actual scarcity of lumber due to lower harvesting quotas set by Canadian govt. These quotas are unlikely to go up any time soon.
Re:A house 3D printed from raw earth
by throwaway316943 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:01PM
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They aren’t going to maintain a 3x increase in price though. If they do we’re going to see a lot of new sawmills starting up.
Using current pre-fab techniques a half dozen builders can raise the core structure of a single family house in a few days. A friend of mine is in the process of building a house and raising the core structure was the fastest and easiest part of the whole process. I don't see this being either cheaper or faster.
The bulk of the cost in many cases is things independent of the actual house, like purchasing the land, doing the ground work and the foundations and pulling in water and sewage.