Nice work @wonkeydonkey That is getting down into the nitty gritty.

I love it.

Not sure why the government doesn't do something to push it along a bit. Maybe the economics of block wall houses don't stack up here.

For bigger walls that require reinforcing / core fill maybe this doesnt work that well, it's hard to see how to easily integrate the reo into the process.

Did you guys watch the demo video where they had the block adjusters going behind as it laid them to square them up if they needed it? Is that required for all the walls it builds? think it was the pulte video.

Maybe the 3d printed houses will become a thing and kill what would be most of its market (single story resi?)

Not held but curious to see where it goes from here..

I actually thought the economics would stack up better here than in the US. Labour here is limited and expensive, in the US it is cheap and plentiful. I wonder why they don't actually have a go at a housing development themselves. Prove they can do it faster and cheaper, you'd think in the current market it would be lucrative too. Apparently they claim to have worked out how to do it with reo, so that shouldn't stop them. I'd like to see them be successful doing houses particularly in the current housing 'crisis'.

Not a bad thought and I think Brickworks is a major shareholder and may have some land for them. I saw the videos of the quality of the houses in the US and they did not look great (i'm no builder though). I bought them because with a major housing crisis in this country you would think something that could speed up construction would be taken up by govt. FBR has been a major learning share for me, so for that i am thankful. Red flag for me going forward constant capital raising and business development by media announcement. you live you learn.

Same here @pdevries , I thought they would be very successful given the wafer thin building margins. I also agree that the blocks the robotic arm layed on the video didn't seem very neat. I wondered if that was inconsistency in the blockwork itself, but still not particularly aesthetically pleasing. I was also excited by supporting an Aussie company building new tech. I was definitely guilty of letting my excitement for the potential override sufficient analysis of what was happening. I'll 'hold and see' though and hope they come good, otherwise I'll also chock it up to a learning opportunity.

@Schwerms yes the block adjusters seem to be a requirement to double check that everything is aligned perfectly

reo is described here a bit

Starter bars were inserted into the concrete slab, with couplers used to install rebar through the aligned cores of the blocks and concrete manually poured into the cores. Steel cages were inserted into the block columns built by the Hadrian X®, with a concrete pump used to fill the columns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1O1yRZO2Fg

@tomsmithidg I have been looking at some of the videos for quality. It generally seems OK. There is a bit of excess glue on some buildings, I assume it will be rendered and is good enough??