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Speaker 1: It's been a while since we looked at the world

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Speaker 1: of three D printing, and no one loves three D

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Speaker 1: printing more than we do. Iconic Construction is in the

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Speaker 1: process of printing a whole home. A show home. Ground

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Speaker 1: was broken a fortnight ago. Already the walls are being printed.

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Speaker 1: Iconic Construction director Nick Lanes with us. Nick morning to you.

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Speaker 1: How big is the machine and how fast does it print?

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Speaker 2: It's probably about the size of a half three ton digger,

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Speaker 2: and as the arm itself is moving at about half

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Speaker 2: a meter per second.

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Speaker 1: Well, so you're seeing a wall coming out. That's incredible.

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Speaker 1: What's it made of?

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Speaker 2: The wall or the machine? The wall? The wolves? The

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Speaker 2: wolves made out of a concrete that we import thirty

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Speaker 2: percent of the dry product of the dry products locally

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Speaker 2: sourced and we batch it here in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: And so you just punch in the details of how big,

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Speaker 1: how widen hit go and it prints.

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Speaker 2: The war all are quite fortunately. Architec actually does a

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Speaker 2: lot of that hard work for us, just in the

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Speaker 2: design of building the property. So we a home, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: we just we take their CAD files and turn them

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Speaker 2: into three D print files.

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Speaker 1: How much can you print? Can you do the doors,

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Speaker 1: the door knobs, the power points, the kitchen beach well.

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Speaker 2: We had a kitchen carcass before, or just the backside

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Speaker 2: of a kitchen bench. But at the stage we were

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Speaker 2: just sticking with the walls. Yeah, we're we're not quite

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Speaker 2: getting down to door knobs. They probably don't do this

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Speaker 2: so good out of concrete.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you're just sticking. So you anything that's made

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Speaker 1: of the singular material, i e. This concrete, sort of concrete,

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Speaker 1: that's what you can print.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so we're trying to take out all the structural

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Speaker 2: element from the beneath the ceiling line basically, so we're

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Speaker 2: going to be printing this whole house will have no

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Speaker 2: timber structure element to it until it hits the ceiling.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, is it solid in terms of it'll stand up

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Speaker 1: to you know, riggers and rules and red tape and

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Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So we've been involved with cor Ox who and

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Speaker 2: been a part of the testing process, and you have

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Speaker 2: been there and witness the testing for these walls, and

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Speaker 2: they're pretty impressive.

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Speaker 1: And so the cost as per doing it.

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Speaker 2: Normally, this house is working out probably slightly dearer than

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Speaker 2: a sort of cheap build it's sort of more in

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Speaker 2: your mid range price. I guess what's.

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Speaker 1: That cheap builds four and a half five thousand a

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Speaker 1: square meter? Is that right or not? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Probably depending where you are, it's slightly cheaper in different areas.

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Speaker 2: We're probably sitting around that four and a half to

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Speaker 2: five thousand a square.

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Speaker 1: With this one, Jeeves, that's not bad. Is this the future? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: no question in your mind whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: Now you think about what construction looks like in twenty

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Speaker 2: thirty years, fifty years from now, this is definitely a

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Speaker 2: part of it.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic good as talk to you nex appreciate the inside

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Speaker 1: Nick Lane, who's the iconic construction director architectural Merit might

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