Interesting take on ‘houses built using CNCed wood’

[Alan Ambrose]

UK technology company Automated Architecture, or AUAR (pronounced “our”) believes it has a solution. It makes portable micro-factories that can produce the wooden framing of a house — the walls, floors and roofs. Co-founder Mollie Claypool says the micro-factories will be able to produce the panels quicker, cheaper and more precisely than a timber framing crew, freeing up carpenters to focus on the construction of the building.

 

AUAR has raised £7.7 million ($10.3 million) to date, and is expanding into the US, where a lack of housing and preference for using wood makes it a large potential market

 

https://edition.cnn.com/world/home-building-robots-housing-crisis-auar-spc

[markc]

I can see a draw for self builders and one off’s. Was it a grand designs where they had a CNC router in a container on site to produce ply “building blocks”?

anybody know if it was built / finished?

[SteamyTea]

Was there not a couple of Hipsters doing that on Grand Design over a decade ago?

[Tom]

I remember that @SteamyTea, think they made osb boxes on site that slotted together, then filled with blown cellulose. 

[SteamyTea]

Here it is:

https://www.facit-homes.com/

 

 

 

[sgt_woulds]

Unfortunately, FACIT has just closed it's doors as there were not enough self builders who wanted to use their system and the mass housebuilders wouldn't even consider it.

 

[sgt_woulds]

At least if they use robots with set programs there would be less of the Great British Builders attitude of  'good enough for a Friday / Match day / customer who doesn't know better'...