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• Holcim & COBOD Complete Europe’s Largest Residential Build in 12 Months April 22
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A 12-unit social housing building in Bezannes, France has become Europe’s largest 3D-printed residential project, completed in just 12 months using Holcim’s TectorPrint concrete printing material. The three-storey, 800-square-meter structure, called ViliaSprint², was developed by social housing provider Plurial Novilia and printed on-site using a COBOD robotic gantry that deposited superimposed concrete layers to form fully load-bearing walls.
Unlike most on-site 3D printing projects, which have been limited to single-storey structures, ViliaSprint² pushed the technology to a new scale. The walls alone were finished in three months, twice as fast as the walls of a nearly identical building Plurial Novilia constructed on the same plot using traditional methods.
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