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In the middle of the search for increasingly sustainable creations and environmentally friendlya key question arises for problems related to housing: can build a property in less than a day? The answer is yes. And not only that, but it can be done in less than 12 hours.
This is BioHome3D, the first 3D printed house Made entirely from recyclable materials of biological origin. The property was manufactured by the University of Maine, United States, and designed with the idea of addressing labor shortage and supply chain problems that generate high costs and restrict the supply of affordable housing in the country.
He University of Maine project and the non-profit organization Penquis, once the prototype is tested, seeks to build a neighborhood of nine 3D printed houses and made with natural materials such as wood fibers and bioresins, which will be given to homeless people.
The 55 square meter house was designed with separate printed modules for easy transportation and assembly. For manufacturing, they were used tons of wood wastecoming from paper factories, in a process that lasted less than 12 hours. In this case, less time is required to build and equip the house on site due to the use of automated manufacturing and off-site production.
Printing uses abundant, renewable and locally sourced wood fiber raw materials, reduces dependence on a limited supply chain, and Construction waste is almost completely eliminated thanks to the printing process.
The walls, floors and ceiling are all printed. Unlike existing 3D printed housing projects. BioHome3D It was printed in four modulesthen moved to the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) and was assembled in half a day.
For its part, The printer responsible for manufacturing is the largest in the worldand in 2019 produced the world’s largest 3D printed boat.
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