Hello, everyone.

This is Enta.

This is some kind of mortar—or is it?—made with a 3D printer that I saw at the Construction DX Expo the other day.

I'm not exactly sure what kind of material it is, but I'm guessing it might be resin mortar. (I have absolutely no idea, so this is just a guess.)

It's not clear whether rebar was used, but was rebar placed layer by layer?

They're standing upright, but they're stacked horizontally.

Looking at the cross-section, you can see that it was made by laying it flat.

Each layer was about 1 cm thick.

I'm curious about things like the pace at which this will unfold, but it was a very interesting work.

We are now in the era of 3D-printed prototypes.

We’re also using a 3D printer to make various prototypes here, but if the slope is smooth (with a consistent gradient), it seems like we could use a 3D printer to make slope frames, right?

It’s like setting up the formwork first and then pouring the mortar in from above.

Since the assembly process involves quite a bit of manual labor, it seems like automation would be difficult, but could it be done if we were only using mortar??

I guess if our legal framework and anchor systems were automated to a certain extent, we could reduce our staff and make things a little easier, though.

Work at heights and the like inevitably involves a lot of manual labor, so even a little mechanization would make things easier.

We’ve been thinking a lot about exactly which parts of the process can be automated, but in our industry, it’s not so easy...

I guess I could probably manage to do something in the other administrative areas, though lol

You’d like to make things a little easier and reduce various risks, right?

I suppose we’ll have to leave matters concerning certain types of machinery to the major companies, but,

To be honest, that’s a business matter, and the construction methods involved are way beyond the capabilities of us small and medium-sized contractors, so it’s a bit of a challenge, lol.

I guess we really do need to give this some serious thought and move forward with our own digital transformation, don't we?

Let's think it through!

See you later.