머스크, LA 터널용 압축벽돌을 만들다 VIDEO: Elon Musk Might Start Selling Masonry Block Made of Compressed Soil


Elon Musk Might Start Selling Masonry Block Made of Compressed Soil

May 22, 2018 Shane Hedmond


One of the biggest hassles of site work in construction is the hauling away of spoils.  It’s costly and time consuming to bring in truck after truck to take unneeded soil off to an unknown dump site.  When Elon Musk and his team, The Boring Company, started digging a tunnel for a HyperLoop system in Los Angeles, they knew there had to be a better way to handle to soil than to haul it away.

 

Elon Musk and Steve Davis talking about their new masonry blocks



머스크, LA 터널용 압축벽돌을 만들다


일론 머스크의 보링컴퍼니의 최근 생중계 이벤트에서 

머스크는 현장팀이 현장에서 나온 흙으로 터널용 벽돌을 만들어 왔다고 공개했다.


콘크리트가 약간 섞인 흙을 압축한 고강도 벽돌이다.

머스크는 캘리포니아 내진하중 뿐 아니라 콘크리트 CMU 벽돌보다 실제로 

더 높은 강도를 가지고 있다고 언급했다.


황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터

Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator


In a recent livestreamed company event for The Boring Company, Musk announced that his team on site had been using the on-site soil to make bricks for the tunnel. By compressing the dirt, mixed with a little bit of “concrete” at an extremely high pressure, Musk says they’ve created a brick that is rated for not only California seismic load, but actually a higher compressive strength than concrete CMU block.




“They’re really great bricks, you can like build houses with them and things,” Musk said at the event, with a grin.


The Boring Company’s project leader said that soil exporting costs for the project would have amounted to 15-20% of the total cost of the tunnel project had they not figured out a way to reuse the soil.  The two talked about looking into either selling the bricks for 10 cents apiece or just giving them away.


The company has several ideas for what to use the bricks for, such as for affordable housing, giant Lego bricks to build monuments in your back yard, or sell them, as mentioned above.


pictures of the blocks via the livestream



This isn't Musk's first endeavor into disrupting the construction industry. Last year, one of his other companies, Tesla, began selling solar roof shingles that look almost identical to traditional roof shingles.


You can see the conversation surrounding the brick/blocks below, starting at 16:27.  I started the video there for your convenience, but if you’d like to start the video before that timestamp, you’ll have to scroll back to the constructionjunkie.


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