{"id":148063,"date":"2022-10-13T03:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T08:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/this-startup-builds-houses"},"modified":"2022-10-13T03:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T08:22:38","slug":"this-startup-builds-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/this-startup-builds-houses","title":{"rendered":"This Startup Builds Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startup-builds-houses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The form gets rolled out on a concrete slab or other foundation, then inflated with an air pump; at this point, it may look a little like one of those bouncy houses you see at children\u2019s parties. Then a ready mix truck shows up\u2014these trucks can mix concrete on their way to a site or at the site itself\u2014and pumps concrete into the form. The company\u2019s website says they can use local ready mix concrete, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buildwithrise.com\/stories\/aircrete-everything-you-need-to-know\">aircrete<\/a> (a lightweight version of concrete that incorporates air bubbles instead of traditional aggregate), sustainable cement, and other \u201cpumpable building materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concrete-pumping step is a bit like 3D printing, though 3D printed homes use concrete as printer \u201cink\u201d to put walls down layer by layer rather than spitting all the concrete into a form at once. This is even faster; Bell <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/good-thinking\/ifff-construction-inflatable-concrete-buildings\/\">told <i>New Atlas<\/i><\/a><i>,<\/i> \u201cFor our 100-square-foot and 200-square-foot prototypes, the inflation took 7 to 10 minutes with air. Then the concrete pump filled them in 1.5 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the concrete has dried, the form isn\u2019t stripped away; it stays right where it is, serving as an airtight barrier for waterproofing and insulation. The final step is to add all the things that make a house look and function like a house rather than a giant clay art project, that is, a facade, windows, doors, drywall, HVAC, and plumbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The form gets rolled out on a concrete slab or other foundation, then inflated with an air pump; at this point, it may look a little like one of those bouncy houses you see at children\u2019s parties. Then a ready mix truck shows up\u2014these trucks can mix concrete on their way to a site or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148063","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}