Here at 3D Rapid Print, one of the fastest growing 3D Printing companies in the Thames Valley, we like to keep abreast of the latest innovations in 3D printing.
On June 20th 2022, 3D printing construction company COBOD of Copenhagen, Denmark announced that Power2Build of Angola had finished what COBOD claimed was Africa’s largest 3D printed building. (COBOD is short for construction of buildings on demand. Power2Build is a construction technology company.) It was made using COBOD’s flagship BOD2 3D printer.
Being the second 3D printed residential building in Angola, it measures 140 square metres in area and has a suite, dining room, living room, 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. COBOD argued that as the 3 bathrooms suggested, this was a house aimed at demonstrating the design and architectural possibilities of 3D printed buildings and not a social housing project.
The house was made via COBOD’s D.fab material solution, an additive mix COBOD developed with multinational building materials company CEMEX of Nuevo León, Mexico. COBOD contended that this enables customers to source 99% of 3D printing concrete material locally, leading to cost-savings of up to 90% compared to 3D printing with mortars.
In November 2021, Power2Build unveiled Africa’s first 3D printed house, unsurprisingly also in Angola. Measuring 53 square metres in area, COBOD described it as “the world’s first 3D printed house in real concrete (defined by particle size above 8 mm).” While the first house was 3D printed in 48 hours, the second house was printed in just 30 hours, representing a house more than 2.5 times as large being built in circa 60% of the time. In addition, the water and electrical installations were done at the same time as the printing.
COBOD boasted that its technology had thus far been used to build 6 buildings in Africa, including 2 schools and 4 residential buildings across Malawi, Madagascar, Kenya and Angola. Furthermore, COBOD announced that customer 14trees would begin 3D printing a double-digit number of houses in Kilifi, Kenya later in 2022, but it is unknown where this has gone since.
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