3D printed buildings made by California’sContour Craftinghave gained a firmer foundation with new investment from concrete formwork specialists, the Doka Group’s investment arm.
“Very soon, we’ll have the first series-ready deployable robotic 3D construction printer,透明says Behrokh Khoshnevis, President and CEO of Contour Crafting Corporation.
奥地利的多组的主要品种之一ers of formwork to the construction industry. As part of the parent company, Umdasch AG, the company saw consolidated revenue of over $1 billion. The investment in Contour Crafting is intended to help, “dramatically reduce the time it takes to construct buildings and meet rising global demand for socially acceptable accommodation and infrastructure.”
Doka Ventures has taken a 30% stake in Contour Crafting.
3D Printing Industry asked Maria Tagwerker-Sturm, Project Management & Coordination at Doka Group, for more details.
3D打印机可在2018年提供
尽管该交易的确切条款（包括投资数量）未公开，但我们知道该资金将用于租用加利福尼亚州El Segundo的33,000平方英尺单位。轮廓制作已经为其3D打印机服用了几项订单，预计将在2018年初发货。3D打印机使用胶结材料，并且“The robots are sold “ex works L.A.”, there is a defined minimum number of future operators who have to be trained and certified prior to the liberation of shipment to customer。透明
Doka没有透露3D打印机将要出售多少。
机器人3D建筑打印机有一个，”reach of between 24 feet to 40 feet and a user selectable length that could be substantially larger. Tipping the scales at less than 800 lbs, it is very light for a large construction machine。透明
Maria Tagwerker-Sturm告诉我们，使用3D打印机进行施工特别有吸引力，”people can move into a new house only 2-5 days after beginning of construction. This technology saves cost, time, enhances the environmental fingerprint and adds a lot of occupational safety as it is an automated process.透明
Increasing 3D printing construction enterprises
In recent years a number of companies have claimed to be able to use a 3D printer to make buildings. Contour Crafting’s founder, Bherokh Khoshnevis, arguably was one of the first to embark on this path. Khoshnevis filed his first patents regarding 3D printing of constructions in 1996. Currently, he has over 100 active patents in this domain.
Since then companies such as China’s WinSun have entered the market. During a visit to Shanghai in 2015 I saw first hand the work of a former student of Khoshnevis and heard how WinSun had taken an interest in the technology.
Tagwerker-Sturm说，Winsun和Contour制作之间存在“巨大”差异。
温苏’s technology is a mixture of 3D printing and prefab as they print structures via a stationary machine in China (which is a used and adapted CNC machine from Italy) then cut the structures apart and ship the parts to the construction site, assemble them and apply finishing. Contour Crafting’s technology consists of deployable robotic systems which print everything at the very construction site.
今年Winsun宣布了15亿美元的交易这将看到公司租赁100 3D打印机到沙特阿拉伯建筑公司。
The technique used by Contour Crafting is also markedly different to recently seen in use by Neri Oxman’s group at MIT. The数字施工平台最近3D印刷了14.6米，3.7米的敞开圆顶模板结构少于14小时。
The influence of Nader Khalili on 3D printed buildings
The influence and legacy of Nader Khalili should also be mentioned in any discussion of this nature. In 1991 Khalili founded the加利福尼亚地球艺术与建筑学院（Cal-Earth）教别人有关他的超级攻击方法。Superadobe方法本身的灵感来自哈利里出生国的传统建筑技术。
从1984年开始，Khalili开发了NASA项目的Superabode系统。哈利里（Khalili）广泛写了有关紧急避难所的建设，还有一个名为Geltaftan的陶瓷房屋的系统。该词的词源来自波斯的“凝胶”，粘土和“塔夫坦”，意思是“firing, baking, and weaving clay。透明
Companies using 3D printers to build
其他使用3D打印技术进行施工的企业包括意大利D形， 这Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC)在西班牙巴塞罗那，俄罗斯的Apis Cor，，，，CYBE构造from the Netherlands, theBatiprint3D projectin France and also Ukrainian startup PassivDom – from whom我们试图买房子。
3D Printing Industry are also speaking with several other companies preparing to make announcements about the increasingly active construction 3D printer market.
We asked Doka Ventures about the largest building constructed to date using their 3D printers and received the following answer,
The size is not the trick. Contour Crafting focused in tests on the most difficult parts of constructions. However, the first generation robots will cover a floor plan of over 200m2.
正如轮廓制作指出的那样，
根据科学预测，地球人口将到2100年上升到110亿。城市化也将大大增加。现在，世界上一半的人生活在城市中；到2050年，该数字将在75％的区域。这些发展对建筑行业构成了巨大挑战。负担得起的住宿和基础设施必须迅速建造。传统的施工方法将无法交付。
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