{"id":305414,"date":"2025-11-24T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305414\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:56:07","slug":"could-ai-and-3d-printing-replace-tradies-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305414\/","title":{"rendered":"Could AI and 3D printing replace tradies in the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can homes built by a gaggle of software engineers instead of teams of tradies really help solve our housing crisis?<\/p>\n<p>When A Current Affair visited one Sydney home, celebrity award-winning designer Jamie Durie said the property went from an empty plot to lock-up in under two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The wave-like walls, which are made from recycled concrete, support the second storey.<\/p>\n<p>Durie believes 3D printed homes are the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re 85,000 to 87,000 tradies short of achieving 1.2 million homes in the next five years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, you know, at some point, some of this building industry needs to be automated so that we can actually keep up with the demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWatch the full story in the player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can homes built by a gaggle of software engineers instead of teams of tradies really help solve our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-305414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}