发表于 ：Thursday , 30th December 2021

在Kilifi Town，蒙巴萨北部，肯尼亚，14宗，霍尔卡斯和CDC集团的合资企业，将建设非洲最大的3D印刷经济适用房项目。

The revolutionary 3D printing technology helped the 52-house Mvule Gardens project come to life in record time. 14Trees created the world's first 3D printed school in Malawi's Salima district earlier this year.

The company's first 3D-printed prototype house in Lilongwe, Malawi, was produced with precision in less than 12 hours, compared to the four days it would take to build a home using traditional methods.

The new facility in Kenya exemplifies 14Trees' long-term strategy to foster African construction innovation and advance 3D printing technology across the continent.

Holcim's patented ink, TectorPrint, enabled this idea by giving the walls structural function to bear the building's load. When compared to existing techniques, the new methodology cuts the environmental footprint by more than half and lowers CO2 emissions typical of traditional cement production methods.

此外，14粒子发现了天然纤维组件，以加强3D印刷中的最佳实践，用于非洲建设，并在可持续性和3D技术运营等领域生产当地的熟练工作。

新的52房屋社区将成为肯尼亚再生环境的一部分，是肯尼亚的绿色心脏，作为包容性和气候集镇的典范。Mvule Gardens将在2022年的第一季度由14秒建造。

"We are pleased to be developing one of the world's largest 3D-printed affordable housing projects in Kenya," said Holcim CEO Jan Jenisch. By 2030, nearly three billion people will require affordable housing due to today's growing urbanisation. This problem is most acute in Africa, where nations like Kenya are already facing a two-million-house shortfall. We can close the infrastructural gap at scale and raise everyone's living standards by adopting 3D printing."

The idea is a valuable, quick, and cost-effective solution to Sub-Saharan Africa's housing shortage, which is expected to be 50 million units.

Tenbite Ermias, head of Africa and Africa managing director, CDC Group, said of 14Trees' ability to build safe, well-located, and reliable homes for communities across Africa, "14 Trees is pioneering the use of cutting-edge technology to address one of Africa's most pressing development needs (affordable housing) to create life-changing infrastructure for whole communities."