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Nick Lane: Iconic Construction director on the company building the first 3D printed show home · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Have been a while since we looked at the world
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  Speaker 2: of three D printing, and no one loves three D
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  Speaker 2: printing more than we do. Iconic Construction is in the
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  Speaker 2: process of printing a whole home a show home ground
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  Speaker 2: was broken a fortnight ago. Already the walls are being printed.
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  Speaker 2: Iconic Construction director Nick Lanes with us. Nick morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: How big is the machine and how fast does it print?
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  Speaker 3: It's probably about the size of a half three ton
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  Speaker 3: digger and as the arm itself is moving at about
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  Speaker 3: half a meter per second.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so you're seeing a wall coming out. That's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: What's it made of?
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  Speaker 3: The wall or the machine? The wall, the wolves, the
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  Speaker 3: walls made out of a concrete that we import thirty
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  Speaker 3: percent of the dry product of the dry products localis
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  Speaker 3: horsed and we batch it here in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: And so you just punch in the details of how big,
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  Speaker 2: how widen hit go and it prints.
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  Speaker 3: The wall are quite Fortunately, Architec actually does a lot
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  Speaker 3: of that hard work for us, just in the design
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  Speaker 3: of building the property. So on the home. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we just we take their CAD files and turn them
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  Speaker 3: into three D print files.
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  Speaker 2: How much can you print? Can you do the doors,
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  Speaker 2: the door knobs, the power points, the kitchen beach Well.
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  Speaker 3: We had a kitchen carcass before, or just the backside
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  Speaker 3: of a of a kitchen bench. But at the stage
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  Speaker 3: we were just sticking with the walls. Yeah, we're not
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  Speaker 3: we're not quite getting in down to door knobs. They
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  Speaker 3: probably don't do this so good out of concrete.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you're just sticking. So you anything that's made
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  Speaker 2: of the singular material i e. This concrete, sort of concrete,
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  Speaker 2: that's what you can print.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So we're trying to take out all the structural
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  Speaker 3: element from the beneath the ceiling line. Basically we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be printing this whole house will have no timber
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  Speaker 3: structure element to it. Wow, until it hits the ceiling.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, is it? Is it solid in terms of it'll
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  Speaker 2: stand up to you know, riggers and rules and red
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  Speaker 2: tape and all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So we've been involved with cor Ox who and been
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  Speaker 3: a part of the testing process, and you have been
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  Speaker 3: there and witness the testing for these walls and they're
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  Speaker 3: pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: And so the cost as per doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Normally, this house is working out probably slightly dearer than
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  Speaker 3: than a sort of cheap build. It's sort of more
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  Speaker 3: in your mid range price.
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  Speaker 2: I guess what's that cheap builds four and a half
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  Speaker 2: five thousand a square meter? Is that right or not?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Probably depending where you are, it slightly cheaper in different areas.
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  Speaker 3: We're probably sitting around that four and a half to
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  Speaker 3: five thousand a square with this one.
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  Speaker 2: Jeeves, that's not bad. Is this the future? Absolutely, no
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  Speaker 2: question in your mind whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: Now you think about what construction looks like in twenty
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  Speaker 3: thirty years, fifty years from now, and this is definitely
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  Speaker 3: a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic good as talk to you, Neck. I appreciate the inside.
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  Speaker 2: Nick Lane, who's the iconic construction director architectural Merit might
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  Speaker 2: be a bit of a talking point, of course.
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