{"id":138685,"date":"2022-04-26T04:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T09:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/can-3d-printing-homes-make-them-affordable"},"modified":"2022-04-26T04:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T09:03:24","slug":"can-3d-printing-homes-make-them-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/can-3d-printing-homes-make-them-affordable","title":{"rendered":"Can 3D-printing homes make them affordable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-3d-printing-homes-make-them-affordable2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BLACKSBURG, Va. (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfxrtv.com\/news\/local-news\/new-river-valley-local-news\/iowa-based-company-alquist-3d-plans-to-build-200-3d-printed-homes-in-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\">WFXR<\/a>) \u2013 As housing prices across the country continue to skyrocket, an Iowa-based company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alquist3d.com\/?msclkid=f63e1f78c2ac11eca19aa8d1196bb43d\">Alquist 3D<\/a>, is looking to combat the crisis by 3D-printing homes.<\/p>\n<p>Alquist, one of a few U.S. companies that 3D-prints houses, is looking to build 200 of these homes in Virginia starting this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The process is somewhat simple. First, a person designs what they want the frame of the house to look like by using a computer program. Then, a file is transmitted to a machine, which tells it what to do and how to move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLACKSBURG, Va. (WFXR) \u2013 As housing prices across the country continue to skyrocket, an Iowa-based company, Alquist 3D, is looking to combat the crisis by 3D-printing homes. Alquist, one of a few U.S. companies that 3D-prints houses, is looking to build 200 of these homes in Virginia starting this summer. The process is somewhat simple. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}