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To say nothing of the fact that some of those precast tubes are going to be precast straight, and others precast curved.

> To say nothing of the fact that some of those precast tubes are going to be precast straight, and others precast curved.

In Europe, a big manufacturer is Ytong, and they even make precast panels in addition to blocks.

Building such a road to deliver precast sections is quite the endeavor.

You need heavy cranes to lift the precast concrete panels into place.

I'm okay with precast shadows, and so on, but if the game has ray traced reflections I'll always turn those on.

I have seen multiple thousands of dollars of precast concrete get junked because an edge was less than half an inch out of tolerance.

I worked in a precast plant with its own concrete plant, for a very large home builder, and for and with residential developers as an architect.

This is most often going to be for precast stuff you mortar onto a flat surface elsewhere but you can create some very fun curved surfaces in place as well.

When I see 3D printing construction compared to precast modules I simply don't see a future where printing a whole building is price or labor saving.

Block, steel stud, brick, wood stud, precast tip-up; both drop ceiling and hardlid.

In August 1991 during the S&L recession and fresh out of Vocational School, I landed my first CAD jockey job drawing fabrication plans for a precast prestressed concrete manufacturer.

This roof system is one of the most commonly used systems in commercial buildings, including those with masonry walls, precast concrete walls, and almost all forms of wall construction " 2.

The analogy with a house is odd - if a house was purely an engineering problem, then they would probably all be built out of precast concrete or something, not "wood and steel".

While it sounds likely true for the US, it's the opposite in Germany: likely due to societal expectations on "creature comforts" and German homes not being framed with 2x4's but instead getting guild-approved craftsmen to construct a roof for a brick building (with often precast concrete slabs forming the intermediate floors; they're segmented along the non-bridging direction to be less customized).

Precast concrete is often made at a factory then transported to the work site, a factory environment would enable all sorts of processes and this one doesn't look too difficult in principle - not to sell them short, it's great research and biomimicry is rad, but layering plates in polymer seems like it's definitely automatable.