From the course: Construction Technology: Industry Snapshot
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3D printing and prefabrication
From the course: Construction Technology: Industry Snapshot
3D printing and prefabrication
- Welcome to JBK Labs. This is our research and development lab, where we get to experiment with all kinds of new technologies. Now, I'm not showing you everything, because we have some things under the covers right now, that we're not going to disclose just yet. But we experiment with a bunch of interesting stuff, and definitely, near the top of the list, is 3D scanning and printing. I mean, we're in the infancy of this. I call this the Apple 2e phase of 3D scanning and printing. The fundamentals here, is that 3D printing is about laying down... It's really additive printing. Because if you're laying down one layer at a time. Whether that's a hundred micron layer, or less, or more, until you build an object from the ground up. Now, there's a bunch of different types of 3D printers, and honestly, we could do an hour and a half, just on 3D printing. Because, you can do any type of material. Plastic, some wood, metal, you can even do concrete. And there's some fantastic 3D printing…
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