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by userbinator 535 days ago
3D printed concrete, to be exact; and the cost benefits over traditional cast concrete seem unclear to me.
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There is a huge amount of time and materials-- for the forms-- that go into building a cast concrete structure. Those are the bulk of the cost. Additionally, shapes with voids or curves are even more expensive to form via traditional means while the printing technique can do them naturally.