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curious2
2017 Jun 25, 12:58pm
curious2
2017 Jun 25, 12:58pm
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These technologies might confer an advantage on large scale developers building new subdivisions, for example. Build a few prototypes to show different designs, publish marketing photos online, prospective customers tour with a sales team, then each house gets built to customer specifications.
"Contour Crafting begins manufacture of 3D printer for construction
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Contour Crafting has already taken several orders for their 3D printers, the first are expected to ship in early 2018.
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“people can move into a new house only 2-5 days after beginning of construction. This technology saves cost, time, enhances the environmental fingerprint and adds a lot of occupational safety as it is an automated process.â€
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In recent years a number of companies have claimed to be able to use a 3D printer to make buildings. Contour Crafting’s founder, Bherokh Khoshnevis, arguably was one of the first to embark on this path. Khoshnevis filed his first patents regarding 3D printing of constructions in 1996. Currently, he has over 100 active patents in this domain.
Since then companies such as China’s WinSun have entered the market.
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This year WinSun announced a $1.5 billion deal that will see the company lease 100 3D printers to a Saudi Arabian construction company.
The technique used by Contour Crafting is also markedly different to recently seen in use by Neri Oxman’s group at MIT. The Digital Construction Platform recently 3D printed a 14.6-m-diameter, 3.7-m-tall open dome formwork structure in less than 14 hours.
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Other enterprises using 3D printing techniques for construction include Italy’s D-Shape, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) in Barcelona, Spain, Russia’s Apis Cor, CyBe Construction from the Netherlands, the Batiprint3D project in France and also Ukrainian startup PassivDom – from whom we tried to buy a house."
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