Finance Minister Inaugurates India’s 3D Printed House at IIT Madras
Get enthralled by taking a sneak peek into India’s first-ever indigenously built Prop-tech based housing space. The initiative by an IIT Madras alumni lead startup, Tvasta has paved the way to built eco-friendly realities.
The 3D tech-based house has a built-up area of 600 Sqft including a quite spacious hall and a kitchen and a thoughtfully designed bedroom. The state-of-the-art project was developed using high-end software and concrete driven 3D printing technology.
Counting on a few of many benefits that 3D printing tech holds vis-a-vis, firstly, very quick development of housing spaces, for instance, a house incorporating 3D print tech can be built in five days and not the usual time frame of months. Secondly, the cost for developing the house will get reduced by approx 30% and also ensures the enhanced life of the structures exceedingly 50 years.
Concrete 3D printing lets developers built three-dimensional real-life housing spaces at all realizable scales. The advanced method incorporates a concrete 3D printer that initiates to fabricate a 3D structure in a layer-by-layer manner when it synthesizes a 3D design file programmed by the user.
While inaugurating the first-of-its-kind 3D printed house projects developed at IIT Madras, via virtual means, the Finance Minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman said that India definitely needs such tech solutions that would save a lot of time. Conventional housing requires a lot of investment into critical resources like time, building materials, logistics. Sufficing the housing demand challenges due to the increasing population, the 3D tech-based houses can definitely be a savior. This tech has the potential to develop houses in different locales at five days per house, thus by catering to housing needs we can get 100 million houses by 2022, she further added.
