A Chinese 3D printing specialist has built what it claims is the world’s larges printed structure: a 432m revetment wall for a river in the town of Suzhou in the northern outskirts of Shanghai.
WinSun constructed the 1.5m-high wall to create a flood defence along the waterway, which connects the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal with Shanghai’s Huangpu River.
The company assembled the structure from printed modules, which it said allowed it to follow the river’s curves more easily and cheaply than would have been possible with conventional techniques.
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