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Author: Sean Fleming, Senior Writer, Formative Content
By 2030, three billion people will need improved housing.
That means building 96,000 new homes every day.
3D-printing technology can create high-quality homes in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional construction.
A couple recently moved into Europe’s first 3D-printed house.
In India, a 3D home was built in just five days.
By the end of this decade, as many as three billion people will be in need of better housing. Meeting that need would mean building 96,000 new homes every day, according to UN Habitat.
Tvasta’s 3D printed house is India’s first attempt at integrating technology into construction automation. Tvasta
India’s first 3D-printed home may provide a solution to the country’s shortage of affordable housing, using a technology that is quicker, cheaper and more efficient than traditional construction, housing experts said.
The single-storey home, measuring about 56 square metres (600 square feet), was built by Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions in the southern Indian city of Chennai, in collaboration with home-building charity Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter.
A home can be built in just five days and be customised, so the technology is suitable for the government’s affordable housing programme, as well as for disaster resettlement, said Adithya Jain, Tvasta’s co-founder and chief executive officer.
India s first 3D-printed home offers affordable housing solution Reuters 1 hr ago
By Rina Chandran
April 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India s first 3D-printed home may provide a solution to the country s shortage of affordable housing, using a technology that is quicker, cheaper and more efficient than traditional construction, housing experts said.
The single-storey home, measuring about 56 square metres (600 square feet), was built by Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions in the southern Indian city of Chennai, in collaboration with home-building charity Habitat for Humanity s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter.
A home can be built in just five days and be customised, so the technology is suitable for the government s affordable housing programme, as well as for disaster resettlement, said Adithya Jain, Tvasta s co-founder and chief executive officer.