New Technology 3D Concrete House Printing Technology
By 2030, almost 60 percent of the Earth’s 8.3 billion people will live in cities and as many as 2 billion of these people will live in slums. The UN estimates that there are more than 100 million people that are homeless worldwide. Providing all people on Earth with access to decent and affordable housing is one of the main aims of Dr. Tinari’s Global Sustainable Development Plan. When families are able to invest in a good home, their living conditions improve and they take a larger stake in their communities. Their house also becomes an asset for their old age and for their children’s future. Investing in housing also increases shared prosperity, since new construction generates jobs and economic growth. Rapid population growth and urbanization, especially in Africa and Asia, are putting unsustainable pressures on traditional housing delivery systems, which are often informal and rely on the competence of the state. Where formal housing can’t be supplied, by necessity, informal housing quickly fills the gaps, often resulting in the proliferation of slums and creating new development challenges. Dr. Tinari has developed a revolutionary, Large-Scale, 3D Concrete House Printer Technology (3DCHPT) that will fundamentally impact the way structures are built around the world. This innovative 3DCHPT will allow the construction of a wide variety of different kinds of structures that will offer a number of significant advantages over conventional structures:
- Rapid Construction: 3DCHPT structures can typically be erected in a fraction of the time of those built using conventional construction methods – in 3 – 5 days.
- Low Cost: 3DCHPT structures can typically be built for a cost of about $80-$90/sq. ft. compared to $170-$180/sq. ft. or more for traditional wood frame construction
- Adaptable & Flexible: 3DCHPT allows the production of broad spectrum of innovative structural shapes that would be either impossible, or simply too expensive to build using conventional construction techniques.
- Stronger: 3DCHPT structures can be made significantly stronger than those built using traditional building techniques so that they can be made to resist natural disasters such as hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, earthquakes & wildfires.
- Environmentally Sustainable: A wide variety of raw materials can be used to build 3DCHPT structures such as clay, earth, stucco etc.. For example, it is possible to use hempcrete or to use the plethora of plastics presently floating in the world’s oceans or discarded in waste dumps as potential raw materials for 3DP. Also, concrete and other materials can be better recycled and used more efficiently if they are used as feedstock in 3DCHPT structures.
- Unlimited Potential: 3DCHPT structures can be built virtually anywhere, including mountain sides and other areas where traditional construction would be extremely difficult or impossible
- Regulatory: Civil engineering testing has shown that 3DCHPT can be legally permitted in all regulatory environments & municipal jurisdictions.
The advantages of the technology developed by Dr. Tinari (Code-named The Megalodon) in comparison to other 3D Concrete House Printing Systems around the world include:
- Light-Weight & Compact: The Megalodon is light enough so all of the components are man-portable. The entire system can be packed up for transport in one 20 ft container or trailer.
- Rapid Set-up & Take-Down: The entire system can be set-up or packed up for transport by two technicians in about 2 hours.
- Adaptable & Flexible: The Megalodon can be used to produce structures of virtually any shape including buildings made like various organic shapes such as sea-shells or mushrooms.
- Expandable: Unlike any other 3D Concrete House Printer in the world, the Megalodon can easily be expanded to produce structures of virtually any size.
- Low-Cost: The complete Megalodon system costs as little as one-tenth the cost of any comparable system, dramatically reducing the time required to amortize the cost of the system.
- Permitting: The Megalodon produces structures that conform to local building codes, such as for example, CAN/ULC S705.1- 01, CAN/CSA A23.1-04 and other standards specified in the Canadian Building code
1) In Canada, the target populations are the thousands of Natives on Reserves who are currently living in substandard or in overcrowded housing.
2) In North America: The target populations are the hundreds of thousands of individuals and families who have suffered the destruction of their homes by natural disasters such as wild fires, floods, tornados and hurricanes.
3) Around the World: The target populations are the billions of human beings who are living in urban slums, substandard housing and the homeless.
Our organization is Native owned and is Native run and we have had outreach programs for more than 5 years that allowed our prople to contact Native groups throughout the Pacific Northwest and across Canada to keep them informed of the development of our 3D Concrete House Printing Technology and how it can benefit their communities by providing a solution to their serious housing crisis.
- Reduce emissions from multifamily housing during construction, operation, and end-of-life while addressing barriers to local adoption.
- Canada
- Pilot: An organization testing a product, service, or business model with a small number of users
At the present Pilot Stage, the Technology is currently providing 3D Printed Concrete Structures to serve a few dozen individuals in the lower Mainland of British Columbia. Once additional funding is received, the plan is to scale up the application of the Technology significantly.
In addition to some financial help, our group is seeking partners who can connect us with low-cost housing developers, government agencies that are responsible for providing low-cost housing solutions, agencies such as FEMA that are responsible for providing replacement housing for all those who have lost their homes to natural disasters, government officials who are responsible for Native Housing on Native Reserves, experts who can help us develop our business model, business development, marketing plan, accounting, human resources talent sourcing, international business law, help change municipal building codes and software development.
- Business Model (e.g. product-market fit, strategy & development)
- Financial (e.g. accounting practices, pitching to investors)
- Human Capital (e.g. sourcing talent, board development)
- Legal or Regulatory Matters
- Monitoring & Evaluation (e.g. collecting/using data, measuring impact)
- Product / Service Distribution (e.g. delivery, logistics, expanding client base)
- Public Relations (e.g. branding/marketing strategy, social and global media)
- Technology (e.g. software or hardware, web development/design)