{"id":386444,"date":"2021-12-27T22:11:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/habitat-for-humanity-just-sold-its-first-3d-printed-home-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2021-12-27T22:11:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T19:11:12","slug":"habitat-for-humanity-just-sold-its-first-3d-printed-home-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/habitat-for-humanity-just-sold-its-first-3d-printed-home-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#Habitat for Humanity Just Sold Its First 3D-Printed Home \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Habitat for Humanity Just Sold Its First 3D-Printed Home \u2013 Review Geek”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Home is where the heart is, especially when it\u2019s 3D printed and completed with just enough time to move in before Christmas. One family in Virginia just finished purchasing this house<\/a> through Habitat for Humanity, and it was the ultimate holiday gift.<\/span><\/p>\n

Habitat for Humanity teamed up with Alquist\u2014a 3D printing company\u2014to build the home in Williamsburg, Virginia. It\u2019s 1200 square feet and has three bedrooms and two full bathrooms. The recipients were April Stringfield and her 13-year-old son, who said \u201cMy son and I are so thankful. I always wanted to be a homeowner. It\u2019s like a dream come true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The house was built from concrete, and it only took 12 hours to print the home\u2019s walls, shaving app<\/a>roximately four weeks off the average home\u2019s wall construction time. The concrete used has several other benefits, too, like better temperature retention and the ability to better withstand natural disasters such as tornadoes. It also saves about 15% per square foot in building costs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alquist also worked with Andrew McCoy, who is the Director of the Virginia Center for Housing Research and Associate Director of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech. According to Habitat for Humanity, the two used a proprietary Raspberry Pi-based monitoring system from Virginia Tech to help \u201ctrack and maintain indoor environment data to enable a series<\/a> of smart building applications.\u201d They also added solar panels to the home to further boost energy savings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stringfield logged 300 hours of sweat equity, as part of the program, and some of which were spent helping the crew on her own construction site. The house also includes a personal 3D printer, installed in the kitchen, which will allow her to reprint anything that might need to be replaced down the line, like a cabinet knob or electrical outlet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first 3D-printed house to hit the market, however. Earlier this year, a listing on Zillow claimed to feature \u201c<\/span>the world\u2019s first 3D-printed home<\/span>\u201d in New York. A few months later, an architectural team in Italy 3D printed a home <\/span>entirely from raw earth materials<\/span>. Clearly, the technology<\/a> is here, and with more businesses and groups taking notice and trying it out for themselves, we could be looking at the future of homebuilding across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/span>Habitat for Humanity<\/span><\/a> via <\/span>CNN<\/span><\/a><\/small>\n<\/div>\n