Contour crafting

"In the future, we will print our houses."

Yes you heard it right! Our houses will be printed out in the future instead of using the concrete, brick, limestone etc. A research has been done by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis from the University of Southern California and a new layered fabrication technology-Contour Crafting has been developed.

As the technology keeps improving, people tend to live a better lifestyle so they move to the mega city. That causes the high demand of houses. If the demands increases and supply remains unchanged, there will be a shortage occurs which lead to a higher equilibrium price. Therefore everything needs to be fast in order to solve the problem of shortage. With the construction technology nowadays, the time needed to build a house is questionable because it concerns of size of the house, human labor, weather, etc. To conclude about it, it takes time to completely build a house. However, if Contour Crafting is being implement in the construction field, it definitely save a lot of time because it can print a house per day.

Now, what is the level of acceptance of the people towards this Contour Crafting? Yes, Contour Crafting is a new technology and it helps us a lot but what people think about it? This is the question that I am going to find out through this dissertation research project. My objectives for this dissertation research project is to explore this new technology that might be implement in our future and also to verify the effectiveness of Contour Crafting. Other than that, I can also study the evolution of construction from the history until now.