Called Skovsporet, or “The Forest Trail,” the development is now home to 36 student apartments in the town of Holstebro, Denmark.
Called Skovsporet, or “The Forest Trail,” the development is now home to 36 student apartments in the town of Holstebro, Denmark.
As a civil engineer I see the whole 3d-printing-buildings-thing mostly as a gimmick and a way to grab some research-money to co-finance your building. At least at the moment.
In this case they still added timber-framing above the concrete walls and as interior walls and roof, so one couls ask why they wouldn’t build the whole walls as timber frame. That would be faster for sure.
But of course not every building has to be built fast or cheap. There are other valid criteria…
And it’s ok to try to find new ways to build walls - even if thats a part of construction that can be done quite fast & efficient already via prefabricating.
Concerning the article:
The author seem to have taken the press-statement from the 3d-printing-company and subtracted some pictures and the metric units.
Without transparency about costs per m² compared to other construction methods it is just an advert.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t really find more information. All results of a web search about this project in this state seem to be the same press statement almost copied verbatim.
I don’t think the manufacturer will publish those numbers.
On the peri-website, there are some numbers relating to printing-speed, layer-thickness and -width and setup-times (english / german). With those one could calculate approximately how long it could take to print a certain building in optimal conditions.
More than that you will probably not get out of them.
My comment was no dig at you for choosing that article. 3d-printing is kind of interesting and with the scale of printers needed here, there will not be a lot of independent information very soon.
But I’m glad there is some public focus on construction methods, even if the “recent” developments in construction that I personally think are good for future-proofing the industry and reducing CO2-emissions (like increased use of prefabrication even on smaller scales and more use of wood on larger scales (e.g. cross-laminated-timber) are not that “interesting” to the public.
I didn’t take it as that. I just find the topic interesting and a probably pioneering new technology that could benefit us all (yeah, I know, it’s not gonna benefit us all for fucking capitalism, but it has the potential) is very intriguing to me. The monetary side of things is just something that usually does not pop into my mind at firsr, so.your comment was a reminder that it could be a relevant question and I’m kinda disappointed I couldn’t find more info about it. I’m even more disappointed though that all the news outlets has word by word almost identical articles posted and there was no sign of actual research in their behalf.
That might (sadly) be a product of our times:
It sure is. Look at how many news outlets just copy and paste some agency’s posts.