Swarm Build Data Collection

About

OSE swarm builds are an innovative method of production - where skilled leadership guides a crew of novices in executing builds of advanced products. This applies to building houses, tractors, CEB presses - and any complex machines - in as little as one day and 5 days for the houses. This lends itself to an innovative business model for regenerative development, where many people can contribute to builds without a requirement of a professional workforce. The innovation lies in the simplification of design, effective instructionals, well-designed workflows, solid leadership, and an infrastructure for rapid learning - combined with a collaborative, supportive environment in which such an activity can take place. This is part of OSE's paradigm of Extreme Manufacturing.

Seed Eco-Home 1

2016 build featured 48 participants over 5 days, in which time we finished the structure and exterior, including in-ground hydronic tubing and photovoltaics array install on top of the roof. The interior, kitchen, or bathroom was not finished. The approximate human hours involved were 48*5*8 or about 1920 hours under the assumption that everyone was working 8 hours per day. However, the more realistic estimate is that the actual work time - outside of people resting or classroom learning sessions - was more like 50% resource utilization - making the build about 1000 hours of build time. This was for a 1400 sf structure. Thus, a proof of concept of feasibility of swarm builds for housing was achieved.

CEB Press

Our first ever One Day build of a heavy machine was achieved. See original blog post [1]. 11 people and 8 AM to midnight - means effectively a 2 day day - or 16 hours*11. This was for the entire mechanical system with hydraulic cylinders, but did not include a build of the automated controller. This makes it 176 hours.