SINGAPORE - Bathrooms for housing units could one day be built more quickly and cheaply using 3D printing.
The process took about half the time now needed to construct a prefabricated bathroom using concrete casting. Since 2014, all new non-landed residential Government Land Sale sites, such as HDB flats and some condominiums, have used prefabricated bathrooms that are constructed in factories before being assembled on-site to save time.
Said Prof Tan:"By being able to print on-demand, companies can save their inventory costs and manpower costs as they don't have to hold as much stock and their workers can be redeployed to do higher-level tasks. This approach also improves workplace safety since robots are doing the construction of the bathroom unit."
Scientists from mechanical, civil and material engineering, architecture and robotics developed four special concrete mixtures suitable for 3D-printing over three years, starting in 2015. To save material and make the bathroom 30 per cent lighter than a conventional prefabricated bathroom unit, the walls were printed in a W-lattice shape, which also lent additional strength to the structure. Pipes and wires can be installed in the empty spaces within the structure, instead of by drilling holes into walls.
Wait the most important thing is..... got hole for voyeurism or not? LOLLLL
Does it include the toilet bowl?
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