(26 Mar 2025)
US HOUSING CRISIS CONSTRUCTION
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Buena Vista, Colorado, US – 19 February 2025
1. Various of a modular housing project built by Fading West
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Schaefer, business development officer, Fading West:
“We’ve really reached a tipping point in our country, really over the last few years, especially in a shortage of housing. Specifically workforce or attainable housing, which for us, that definition means kind of 80 to 120% of the AMI, the area median income."
3. Various of workers building homes in Fading West’s factory
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Schaefer, business development officer, Fading West:
“So Fading West really came into existence to help solve that problem, using the innovative method of manufacturing homes in a factory and using principles, lean principles that you would find in, let’s say, a Toyota car manufacturing plant."
5. Various of workers building homes in Fading West’s factory
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Schaefer, business development officer, Fading West:
“There’s numerous advantages to building indoors. One is we have created a system that allows the homes to move every four hours. Thus, houses are being built in, like I said, between five and seven days. A typical site-built home has 30% waste. We’re at about 3% waste, so a radical reduction of waste. We can build year-round in a place like Colorado, that where the ground’s frozen or it’s cold outside. That allows us to keep building throughout the year. And high-quality, too. We’re all building together, so we see exactly what is happening from station to station.”
7. Various of the exterior of concrete 3D-printed homes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Grant Hamel, VeroTouch CEO:
“This is a 3D-printed home made entirely of concrete, and we print layer-by-layer utilizing a CAD file that we slice just like your desktop 3D printer. And we’re able to make different designs with it, more curved walls, has an organic shape to it. And we’re able to build very high-efficiency, highly structurally stable buildings for, you know, individuals who want this type of technology.”
9. Various of the exterior and interior of the 3D-printed homes
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Grant Hamel, VeroTouch CEO:
“So 3D printing and construction robotics is just a piece of what’s going to be happening in the future. Robots are going to be building our homes, along with everything else that we’re likely going to be doing. But the difference is construction is the most important industry in the world because it supports every other industry. So we need to quickly develop the automated processes so that we can build faster and stronger and higher-quality structures. And robotics can do that with the lack of labor and resources we have available.”
11. Various of workers at the 3D-printed homes
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Schaefer, business development officer, Fading West:
“So we see this as one of the pieces to the puzzle and helping solve the affordable housing crisis in our country. One of the things that we urge is states, and both the state and federal government, to put money into building factories such as this. Let’s say, so if you put in 10 to 20 million to build a factory such as this, then you could build 500 homes a year for the next 25 years, rather than focus just on putting money for specific projects. So again, the repeatability of this makes perfect sense for the shortage of workforce housing in our country.”
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