Iv-Madras commissioning Tvasta has built the country’s first 3D print house in the IIT-M campus.

The first house, which has a built-up area of ​​600 square feet, has a bedroom, a hall and a kitchen. The entire house was designed using software and printed using concrete 3D printing technology.

Using this technique, a new house can be built in five days against four or five months in traditional mode. In addition, the cost of the house is reduced by about 30% and the life of the building can be more than 50 years.

Concrete 3D printing is an automated manufacturing method for building three-dimensional real-life structures (at all realistic scales). The technology uses a solid 3D printer that accepts a computerized three-dimensional design file from the user and ejects a particular type of concrete designed specifically for this purpose in a layer-by-layer manner. Creates a 3D structure.

Inaugurating the first 3D-printed house almost on Tuesday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “India certainly needs solutions that do not require much time. Traditional housing requires time, materials, logistics, transportation of materials, and so on. But if this technology can make a home in different places. In five days per house, building 100 million homes by 2022 will not be a major challenge. “

IIT-Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthy said, “Machines can be hired to build this house, such as borewells rented by farmers. It provides large scale, high quality and value assurance to customers. ”

“This technology can enable deep personalization of construction for the individual. This can ensure that affordable, good quality housing is available to all Indians with technology built in India, ”said Aditya VS, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tavasta.

Apart from providing accommodation, it can also solve other problems such as cleanliness, disaster-time rehabilitation, and projects for the construction of military bunkers.

News Source: ConstructionWorld