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South Africa has completed its first 3D printed low-cost construction home.
The 3D printing technique used can build a house in less than 24 hours.
Africa News spoke to the engineers that worked on the project at the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Johannesburg.
The initiative is funded by the Department of Science and Innovation and implemented by UJ’s Faculty of Civil Engineering and the Built Environment, in partnership with the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Human Settlements and AfriSam. The university's 3D-printing machine is valued at R6 million.
The 3D-printed house is designed with strict adherence to the best practices of thermo dynamics, Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, UJ’s outgoing vice-chancellor and principal, told itweb.
