CONTOUR CRAFTING

Contour Crafting is a layered fabrication technology through which large-scale structures can be fabricated quickly in a layer-by-layer fashion, like 3D-printing a building. It reduces the cost of building a structure by minimizing the man-hours needed to manufacture it and also increases the speed at which the house can be put on the market, lowering the financing cost by allowing it to turn a profit for the builder more quickly. The process should also be much safer for construction workers th... an traditional building techniques, which would lower the cost of insurance for building companies. Contour Crafting technology has great potential for automating the construction of whole structures as well as sub-components. Using this process, a single house or a colony of houses, each with possibly a different design, may be automatically constructed in a single run, embedded in each house all the conduits for electrical, plumbing, and air-conditioning. The potential applications of this technology are far reaching including but not limited to applications in emergency, low-income, and commercial housing. Contour Crafting was developed by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California.More