The Danish company will 3D-print etagebyggerier in 2021

It is not very many years ago that 3D printers really broke through into the public consciousness.

since then, creative souls printed everything from small legetøjsfigurer in the plastic to skydeklare guns and spare parts for the body worn-out bodies.

So why not upscale the technology a bit and print out something larger? What if you could print, for example, a whole house with several floors at once?

that is The idea behind a new Danish research project by the name of N3xtcon, which is working to develop technology that can 3D-print large building in reinforced concrete in an easy and consistent process.

According to the plan researchers and companies already from 2021 could print several floors high residential buildings. It writes the Engineer.

N3xtcon-the project has received 16 million dollars in support from the innovation foundation, and with experienced partners from the construction industry as Pension Danmark and the FB Group, both of which work with high-rise buildings, are the prerequisites for success good.

It assesses the project manager Thomas Juul Andersen, Danish Technological Institute.

- The ambition is that within three years we can print something that they can use – both as insitu-construction and with the printed elements, he says to the Engineer.

As you probably might expect, is such 3D-printprojekter not like to lead out in life. First, it requires a huge printer that can make large items.

How has N3xtcon got your fingers in the through collaborator Cobod, behind Denmark, so far only 3D-printed building in Copenhagen's Nordhavn.

The new project, however, must also find new, smart methods to calculate the process and make solid reinforcement in the printed concrete.

the Goal is, according to the Engineer to find a way in which you can place armeringen, while at the same time to the printer.

As most byggesagkyndige know, it is not enough just to make a building that looks nice and robust looking. It should also be documented that the building is solid and lives up to bygningsreglementets requirements.

And the type of calculations, there are no standards when it comes to 3D-printed buildings, says Thomas Juul Andersen.

- One of the goals of this project is to get locked on a valid armeringsmetode in time so that we can achieve to print out a lot of constructions with it and test them. This can vidokumentere their properties and to reach a credible method of calculation, he says to the Engineer, and adds:

- We will not just make a simply stunning design. We will have to keep track of the whole process and make it robust, so it will not be a fresh experiment.