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A Chinese company has used 3D
printers to create five-story homes using construction waste. The project
architects say this is the world’s tallest building constructed using this
technology.
RT.com reports the new project is the brainchild of
Shanghai-based WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co, who also managed to use
3D printing technology to create a 1,100 square meters villa in the Suzhou
industrial park of China's Jiangsu Province. It is not known how comfortable
the buildings will be to live in, but one cannot argue with the cost, the villa
complete with interior decoration cost a little over US$160,000.
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According to the 3D printing website
3ders.org, it took the company a day to print one level of the building and
another five to put it together. In order to undertake the mammoth task, the
company used a massive 150-meter long and 6 meter high printer. They use
recycled building waste for the materials or ‘ink’ which also contain glass
fiber, steel and cement and special additives. The process works by secreting
layers of construction material on top of each other to create densely packed
building blocks.
The company says the buildings are
perfectly safe to live in, and are expanding their horizons and hope to build
housing blocks as tall as 12 stories in the future.
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WinSun estimates 3D printing
technology can be very savvy: it may save between 30 and 60 percent on building
materials with costs slashed by 50 percent up to 80 percent. The firm said that
it may also shorten production time by 50 to 70 percent.
The company has been building up a reputation.
In April, it managed to print 10 full-size houses in a day.
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