![]() This structure on Wolfe Island is the first time a two-storey unit will be built. It’s the second structure the company has built so far the first being in Windsor, Ont., earlier this summer.Īrthur says that was the first single-storey unit in Canada. The house is being built on Wolfe Island, which sits off the coast of Kingston, Ont. ![]() "In a really predictable and automated way placing that concrete in order to grow a structure almost right out of the ground," Arthur explains. "They’re going through our BIM model and then going through our computer that instructs the big printing machine behind me and then it layer by layer adds material just like any small-scale desktop 3D printer," he explains. The machine takes regular concrete and pours it layer by layer to build the walls of the home.įounder Hugh Roberts says the information on where for the machine to go and how to do that comes from the typical blueprints you would need to build a house. "(It’s a) really, really exciting project," says Ian Arthur, one of the company's founders. It’s not only possible but it’s happening right here in eastern Ontario.Ī company called nidus3D is using 3D printing technology to build Canada’s first two-story house. 3D printing has been used to create many things these days, but what if you could 3D print a house.
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