A video showing Europe’s first construction of a house in-situ using a 3D printer in has been released.
The five-room, affordable 95 sq m house in Nantes, France, is set to be fitted out having been shown off to the public last weekend.
The project team was led by French contractor Bouygues and the University of Nantes.
After the foundations and ground floor were constructed, the team used a laser-guided BatiPrint 3D robot to extrude two walls of polyurethane foam which then hardens to provide the formwork for a layer of concrete.
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