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    Thursday, May 6, 2021

    Dutch Firm Builds First Commercial House Printed With 3D Technology

    Europe’s first 3D-printed concrete house and the world’s first commercial housing project have found its first tenants in the city of Eindhoven. Along with Project Milestone, the city of Eindhoven is expected to pave the way for the large-scale construction of 3D homes equipped with all modern amenities.

    The three-room single-floor house is spread over 1,000 sq ft and has a wooden terrace. Shaped like a boulder, it is surrounded by greenery and open spaces all around. Four more houses are to be studied under the Milestone Project at the site being developed as a “sculpture garden”.

    According to information available on the project’s website, these houses are intended to be occupied for at least several decades. The builders say that 3D printing technology gives them freedom, while the traditional concrete design was too rigid. They say that one of the advantages of using a 3D concrete printer is that it has the ability to lay concrete only where it is needed, thereby reducing wastage and CO2 emissions by using more cement.

    3D concrete printing also allows builders to design very fine concrete structures. Another advantage of this technique is that builders can fulfill the individual wishes of customers without increasing the cost of construction. For this project, the builders said, 3D technology helped them blend homes with naturally wooded surroundings as if they have always been in this wood oasis.

    Work on the project began during the 2016 Dutch Design Week, when the municipality of Eindhoven and TU Eindhoven expressed their intention to build these homes. In 2017, the business community joined and has now moved into the first house to live.

    The building elements of the first house were printed at Eindhoven University of Technology, but the fifth house, a two-story building, will be printed on site.

    A few days ago, India also got its first 3D-printed house in Chennai. The single storey house is 600 sq ft and was constructed using indigenous concrete 3D printing technology.

    The homebuilding team said that they had printed the structure using a special concrete that they had developed to print large-scale 3D structures. He said the mixture was based on ordinary Portland cement, which has a low water-cement ratio. The use of such local materials will reduce the need for solid long-distance transportation to minimize environmental impact.

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