Can a home be built in just Five Days?
April 27,2021 – India’s first 3D-Printed home was set up in IIT-Madras by the start-up “TVASTA Manufacturing Solutions”, within the campus, in association with Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Centre for Innovation in Shelter. India's first 3D Printed house created in IIT Madras. Over the years, even though,at a slow pace, the technology of 3D-Printed houses has started overruling the traditional way of constructing houses globally. About a dozen companies are working on 3D-printed houses worldwide, with an estimation to reach at a total cost of $1.5 billion by 2024 globally. History states that the construction of 3D printing and its development has been underway since 1995. Two methods were invented, one by Joseph Pegna which was focused on a sand/cement forming technique. The other technique, Contour Crafting by Behrohk Khoshnevis, initially began as a novel ceramic extrusion and shaping method, as an alternative to the emerging polymer and metal 3D printing techniqu