- Title: Europe's biggest 3D-printed house is being built in Bavaria
- Date: 27th November 2020
- Summary: VARIOUS OF 3D PRINTER PRINTING (SOUNDBITE) (German) SPOKESMAN FOR CONSTRUCTION SUPPLIER PERI, FABIAN MEYER-BROETZ, SAYING: "We have very high building standards in Germany, and this technology is in no way inferior. We are standing in what will be a very energy-efficient house (in German a KfW 55 house). It will be very well sound-insulated. And of course in terms of design the 3D printer allows us to create all the shapes that you can imagine." VARIOUS OF MEYER-BROETZ LOOKING AT HOUSE WALL WITH BUILDING CONTRACTOR FABIAN RUPP (SOUNDBITE) (German) CEO OF BUILDING CONTRACTOR RUPP BAUDRUCK, FABIAN RUPP, SAYING: "For a multi-apartment building like this we would normally have five people on site, but for this building we only need two or three. It took two people 25 hours to print the ground floor. In comparison, it usually takes five people five days." VARIOUS OF 3D PRINTER PRINTING (SOUNDBITE) (German) CEO OF BUILDING CONTRACTOR RUPP BAUDRUCK, FABIAN RUPP, SAYING: "At the moment we're having problems getting young people enthused about training in construction. We want to turn that around with this 3D project and say 'hey, we're making working in construction sexy again'." SPED-UP FOOTAGE OF 3D PRINTER PRINTING VARIOUS OF 3D PRINTER ON CONSTRUCTION SITE
- Embargoed: 11th December 2020 11:32
- Keywords: 3D 3D-printed concrete house printer
- Location: WALLENHAUSEN, GERMANY
- City: WALLENHAUSEN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Europe,Information Technologies / Computer Sciences,Science
- Reuters ID: LVA003D6CD1DZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Europe's largest 3D-printed house to date is under construction in a Bavarian village.
German construction supplier Peri is using a large 3D printer manufactured by Denmark's COBOD to erect a three-storey building which will house five apartments.
At 380 square metres, it is set to be Europe's largest residential building constructed by a 3D printer.
The 3D printer works by squirting out layers of concrete one on top of the other.
A computer also directs the mixing of the concrete before it is sucked along a tube and squirted out through a device that a Peri spokesman compared to a piping bag of the sort used to ice a cake.
Once the load-bearing walls are built, the cavities are also filled with concrete. Spaces are left for gas, water, electricity and sewage pipes.
The construction supervisor on site told Reuters the whole process is significantly faster than traditionally building methods, and also requires fewer labourers.
Fabian Rupp said that this was an advantage as the industry is facing a shortage of skilled labour.
He added that he hoped the project would attract more young people to the construction profession. "We're making working in construction sexy again."
However, the new technology doesn't help with the old problem of bad weather - the printer cannot be used when the temperature drops below freezing.
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