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China 3D prints 10 houses and BSB proposes new skyscrapers

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The WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co. (link in Chinese) has printed 10 homes in 24 hours out of recycled materials. This isn't the first attempt at 3-D printing large structures in a short amount of time. Researchers in California are making a printer that can build a house in 24 hours. In Amsterdam earlier this month, construction of a 3D-printed house began . The house is made out of plastic bricks that fit together like Lego. It's also being printed onsite. The Chinese houses, on the other hand, weren't built onsite. They were printed in pieces and then put together in Shanghai's Qingpu district. 3ders The pieces are made using recycled construction materials and industrial waste to form a concrete aggregate, Gizmodo reports . The 3-D printer used to build the houses is 500 feet long, 33 feet wide and 20 feet high. Each home costs around $4,800 to build. "We purchased parts for the printer overseas, and assembled the machine in a factory in Suzhou,...

Broad Sustainable Buildings to develop Riverfront District in Yinchuan

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Yinchuan Municipal Committee cloud summer evening listening to reports of Ningxia Museum Cloth Hall ambitious program can be built Show Posted by: Lu Xinci Published :2014-2-14 February 13, 2014, Yinchuan Municipal Committee summer evening listening to the lofty cloud can be built Riverfront District Pavilion Cloth Hall program reporting. Riverfront District Party Working Committee, the CMC deputy director Yang Hongwei, LI Cheng-Rong, deputy director of the CMC and the Board Office official attended this meeting. Recently, Ningxia lofty Technology Co., Ltd. can be built successfully signedRiverfront District can be built exhibition hall construction projects. The total area of 6,237.44 square meters, of which the ground floor area of 6,039.75 square meters ;underground construction area of 197.69 square meters ; building a total height of 18.50M . On the ground floor for Planning Exhibition Hall, two three for the office area. Project can be built on the use of technology to creat...