First 3D printed house goes live at IIT-Madras
TNN | Apr 28, 2021, 10:34 IST
TNNThe cost of the house is reduced by around 30% and life of the building can exceed 50 years
CHENNAI: The country’s first 3D printed
built by
Madras startup ‘Tvasta’ was inaugurated on the campus on Tuesday.
The house, which has a built-up area of 600 square feet, has a bedroom, a hall and a kitchen. It has been designed using a software and printed using concrete 3D printing technology.
director Bhaskar Ramamurthi said, “The machine for constructing this house can be rented, like borewells rented by farmers. It provides for large-scale, high quality and also, price assurance for the customers.”
Using this technology, a new house can be built in five days against four or five months in conventional mode. Further, the cost of the house is reduced by around 30% and life of the building can exceed 50 years.
This technology digitizes the construction by using automated manufacturing methods to build real-life structures. In this method, the green strength of concrete is achieved in a few minutes against 21 days or more in the traditional method.
The technique uses a concrete 3D printer which accepts a computerized three-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, finance minister
said, “India definitely needs such solutions which do not require much time.”
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