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“I was always a home builder, but lately I’ve developed an apartment complex.” Here in Florida, so many structures are made of stucco because stucco is fairly inexpensive, creates a great finished look, and is easy to apply to homes constructed with concrete blocks. But it can be damaged as a house shifts and settles over time. Companies like Icon, or COBOD International, are making news with their 3-D printed homes (and communities) that build houses layer by layer with cement-based material. But they have generated more headlines than buildings: “Building houses that work twice as good in half the time at the half the price” is a noble goal. The method is largely used to construct walls while conventional methods are used for foundations, floors, roofs, and…