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Buena Vista, Colorado – 19 February 2025
1. Various of a modular housing project built by Fading Wes
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Schaefer, business development officer, Fading West: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
“We’ve really reached a tipping point in our country, really over the last few years, especially in a shortage of housing. 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. 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. We can build year-round in a place like Colorado, 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.”
3. Various of workers building homes in Fading West’s factory
4. Various exteriors of concrete 3D-printed homes
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Grant Hamel, VeroTouch CEO: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 6 AND 7++
“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. Robots are going to be building our homes along with everything else that we’re likely going to be doing. But the difference is, 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.”
6. Various exteriors and interiors of 3D-printed homes
7. Various of workers at 3D-printed homes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Schaefer, business development officer, Fading West: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 9++
“We see this as one of the pieces to the puzzle in helping solve the affordable housing crisis in our country. Again, the repeatability of this makes perfect sense for the shortage of workforce housing in our country.”
9. Various of modular housing project built by Fading West
STORYLINE:
As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices, builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using hemp to make building blocks for walls.
It’s a response to the country’s shortfall of millions of homes that has led to skyrocketing prices, plunging millions into poverty.
One company in Buena Vista, Colorado, thinks the solution to reducing the cost of homes is by building them in factories.
In a cavernous, metal hall, Eric Schaefer stood in front of a long row of modular homes that moved through the plant, similar to a car on an assembly line.
At a series of stations, workers lay flooring, erected framing, added roofs and screwed on drywall.
Everything from electrical wiring to plumbing to kitchen countertops were in place before the homes were shrink-wrapped and ready to be shipped.
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