Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers?
by inglor_cz on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:06AM
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Prefab houses are a thing and they aren't exactly rare. People escaping apartments usually complain about neighbors or lack of a garden, not about the floor plan.
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They are pretty rare, at least here in the US, and widely seen as undesirable or 2nd-3rd tier at best.
Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers?
by inglor_cz on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:44AM
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Where I live, they aren't that rare. People like the fact that they can be built fast.
Near as I can tell from Googling around, they make up 2-6% if the US housing stock.
This is one of the corporations that has been popular in my country for the last 10 years or so:
https://www.rdrymarov.cz/en/all-about-building
I do not know the percentage of the housing stock either, but housing stock here is very conservative. Many people still live in 100+ year old houses. New houses are being built, but the turnover rate is probably less than 1 per cent of all units a year right now, due to the vast bureaucracy.
But among the newly built houses, I see quite a lot of prefabricated houses out of wood. And the process of building them is rather quick. Once the lot is ready, a semi and a crane arrive and the house just grows in front of your eyes. Brick houses take a lot longer to build.