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>Most "brick" or "stone" you see in new construction is some prefab panel glued to something Prefix that with "In the States".
What countries is brick still popular for primary construction? Japan is wood, China and much of Asia is majorly concrete. Europe?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Most "brick" or "stone" you see in new construction is some prefab panel glued to something Prefix that with "In the States".
What countries is brick still popular for primary construction? Japan is wood, China and much of Asia is majorly concrete. Europe?
What a bizarre turn of phrase that bricklayers are "safe" only if they continue to engage in their profession, which comes with a substantial risk of injury. Of course bricklayers will be safer when robots are able to build houses. Then bricklayers will be able to stay home and do as they please. How have we come to think of the challenge of automating the matter of the universe as within our reach, but the challenge…
Bricks are expensive these days, and laying them is an artisan art and skill. Where I live in California houses are currently erected in days out of cheap wood and cladding. As soon as it is feasible this process will be automated and ways found to construct them more quickly using the cheapest materials. We recently had some terrible fires where entire subdivisions burnt. Dozens of houses burnt simultaneously yet th…
Bricks are expensive these days, and laying them is an artisan art and skill. Where I live in California houses are currently erected in days out of cheap wood and cladding. As soon as it is feasible this process will be automated and ways found to construct them more quickly using the cheapest materials. We recently had some terrible fires where entire subdivisions burnt. Dozens of houses burnt simultaneously yet th…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Most "brick" or "stone" you see in new construction is some prefab panel glued to something Prefix that with "In the States".
What countries is brick still popular for primary construction? Japan is wood, China and much of Asia is majorly concrete. Europe?
E.g., something like this: https://www.ziegelwerk-wenzel.de/produkte/w09-425
Why aren't they using shims and jigs? If you want to line it up right, make sure you have the right amount of mortar in the right place, etc, put a jig around it with some shims. It's the easiest way to build anything precisely that has to be done over and over again.
That might be the easiest way for a novice to do it, but would it be the fastest for someone who has experience?
The replacement will not be laying bricks but new technologies. Computers didn't replace human "calculators" by using abacus.
3D "printing" walls and entire buildings onsite from epoxy, resins or other raw materials seems the most plausible.
Bricks are expensive these days, and laying them is an artisan art and skill. Where I live in California houses are currently erected in days out of cheap wood and cladding. As soon as it is feasible this process will be automated and ways found to construct them more quickly using the cheapest materials. We recently had some terrible fires where entire subdivisions burnt. Dozens of houses burnt simultaneously yet th…