Dubai becomes home to world's largest 3D-printed building

Record ID: 1458057

  • Title: Dubai becomes home to world's largest 3D-printed building
  • Date: 12th February 2020
  • Summary: DUBAI, UAE (FEBRUARY 2, 2020) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF 3D PRINTING MACHINE / 3D-PRINTED BUILDING IN BACKGROUND (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR GENERAL OF DUBAI MUNICIPALITY, DAWOUD AL HAJRI, SAYING: "The different thing about this building is that it is a two-storey building, it is a big building, it is 640 square metre building. It has been built in a very natural environment, it has not been covered. As we have researched, most of the 3D-printing building researchers or the other cities, have been trying or researching those 3D-printing buildings are constructed in a very closed environment." VARIOUS OF PRINTING MACHINE
  • Embargoed: 26th February 2020 14:56
  • Keywords: 3D printing Dubai Dubai Municipality UAE innovations
  • Location: DUBAI, UAE
  • City: DUBAI, UAE
  • Country: UAE
  • Topics: Science
  • Reuters ID: LVA004C0B5LQZ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A two-storey building that will be part of Dubai municipality's innovation centre is registered as the world's largest 3D-printed structure.
    The building, unveiled in October 2019 and registered by the Guinness World Records, stands at 9.5 metres high and spans across 640 square metres. It could be the starting point of Dubai government's plans to turn the emirate into a hub for the 3D printing technology.
    The municipality says the building is 60 percent more sustainable than average buildings, using half of the number of construction workers.
    The reduction of the labour force needed to construct the building reduced the cost of production from 2.5 million dirhams (nearly $681,000) to 1 million dirhams ($272,000).
    Dubai is also home to what it said was the world's first functioning 3D-printed office building, opened in 2016.
    Depending on the 3D printing method is part of a drive by the Gulf's main tourism and business hub to develop technology that cuts costs and saves time.
    (Production: Abdel Hadi Ramahi, Tarek Fahmy, Mai Shams El-Din)
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