Trend set! First 3D printed house goes live at IIT-Madras!
Posted on: 28/Apr/2021 2:30:28 PM
The country�s first 3D printed house built by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT, Chennai) Startup �Tvasta� was inaugurated in the IIT Chennai campus yesterday (27th April) Tuesday!
This 3D printed house, covering an area of 600 sq ft, has a bedroom, a hall, and a kitchen. This has been designed using software and printed using concrete D printing technology!
The Director of the Indian Institute Of Technology, Madras, Bhaskar Ramamurthy shared: �The machine for constructing this house can be rented, like the bore wells rented by farmers! It provides for large-scale, high-quality and also, price assurance for the customers!�
Using this new technology, a new house can be built in 5 days � against the 4 or 5 months in the conventional construction mode! Further, the cost of the house is reduced by around 30% and the life of the building can exceed 50 years!
The technology digitizes that construction by using automated manufacture methods to build real-life structures. In this method, the green strength of concrete is achieved IN A FEW MINUTES AGAINST THE 21 DAYS OR MORE IN THE TRADITIONAL METHOD!
The technique uses a concrete 3D-printer which accepts a computerised 3-dimensional design file from the user and fabricates a 3D structure by extruding a specialized type of concrete specifically designed for the purpose.
While inaugurating the house �Virtually� on Tuesday (27th April), the Central Finance Minister Nirmala Seetharaman said: �India definitely needs such solutions which do not require much time!�
