3D printing a house

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Type
Authors Gizmodo
IFL Science
Location Shangai, China
Status
Years
Cost USD 5000

There have been news reports on Gizmodo and IFL Science of an experiment in Shanghai using 3D printers to create housing. Construction is fast — an experimental ten-house village went up in a day — and cheap, around $5000 a house. Some of the materials used are recycled waste.

This uses a different technology than the Dutch experiment which aims at printing an entire house on-site. The Chinese firm, Winsun Engineering (site is in Chinese), instead prints components for pre-fab houses in a factory. Components can be large; the printer is 150x10x6 meters. The company's plans call for a hundred factories doing this in China.

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