Mumbai — India’s first 3D-printed home may provide a solution to the country’s shortage of affordable housing, using a technology that is quicker, cheaper and more efficient than traditional construction, housing experts said.
“Traditional construction is tedious and time consuming, and people are getting left out as affordability is limited, or settling for low-quality homes,” Jain said. Unlike other uses of 3D printing — such as medical devices — the process, also known as additive manufacturing, typically uses some form of quick-drying concrete laid precisely by a computer-controlled extruder.
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