{"id":161626,"date":"2023-04-06T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/startup-builds-inflatable-concrete-houses-in-just-hours"},"modified":"2023-04-06T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:23:43","slug":"startup-builds-inflatable-concrete-houses-in-just-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/startup-builds-inflatable-concrete-houses-in-just-hours","title":{"rendered":"Startup builds \u201cinflatable\u201d concrete houses in just hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7c-QfMi-7-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking ahead: <\/strong>Automatic Construction is in the process of building a concrete house for one customer in New York and has contracts signed with two others, according to Bell. It\u2019s also inked a deal with a \u201clarge commercial contractor\u201d for a structure.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear how large those will be, but the prototypes the company has built so far are better described as tiny houses than starter homes \u2014 they might be large enough for one person, but they aren\u2019t likely to accommodate a family.<\/p>\n<p>Automatic Construction is testing a 650-square-foot, two-story concrete house design, though, and claims its technique could be scaled up for larger structures \u2014 including commercial buildings, city skyscrapers, or even houses on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking ahead: Automatic Construction is in the process of building a concrete house for one customer in New York and has contracts signed with two others, according to Bell. It\u2019s also inked a deal with a \u201clarge commercial contractor\u201d for a structure. It\u2019s not clear how large those will be, but the prototypes the company [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161626","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}