Monday, 20 July 2020

Global Housing Construction Technology Challenge

More than 2 years ago , the Union Housing Ministry threw this challenge to the Construction Industry, from all over the world, as reported in :

Global Housing Construction Tech Challenge: Centre plans outreach programme

24 FEBRUARY 2018 Last Updated at 4:48 PM | SOURCE: PTI

Extract :

The Union housing ministry plans a "massive dissemination and outreach" programme for the Global Housing Construction Technology Challenge, it set to launch for building affordable and sustainable houses in the country, an official said.

The initiative aims to give a major push to construction of houses for the urban poor under the Centre's flagship Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban).

The Centre will invite companies from across the world to showcase their construction techniques under the 'Global Housing Construction Technology Challenge', the official said, adding the technologies selected would be used for building houses under the PMAY(U) scheme.

The ministry targets to construct 1.2 crore houses under the scheme in a bid to provide houses to all urban poor by 2022. So far, nearly 40 lakh houses have been sanctioned under the scheme.

"We are going for massive dissemination and outreach programme. We will inform all countries, all associations and business bodies about the competition. We are in the process of finalising it. In the next two to three months, we will come up with a full-fledged programme," the official said.

He said the competitors would be required to demonstrate construction of houses at a minimum cost in minimum duration, keeping Indian requirements in mind.

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After a lapse of 2 YEARS , there is no further news re :

Ø Which construction Companies – Business Bodies – Associations, got selected

Ø What “ construction techniques “ got selected

Ø Who gave “ demonstrations “ and where and at what cost / sq. ft

In the absence of such information, I would like to draw the attention of the Housing Ministry to the following news :

WATCH A 3D PRINTER SPIT OUT AN ENTIRE TWO-STORY HOUSE / 17 July 2020

Extract :

Europe’s largest 3D printer just spat out an entire two-story tall home, an effort by Belgian sustainable construction company Kamp C. According to the company, it’s the biggest house printed in one piece, with a fixed printer, in history.

The 32-by-32 foot printer works in much the same way as its much smaller plastic-printing additive cousins — except that it uses a specially mixed concrete to build layer by layer.

Such a process has key advantages over conventional builds: It’s significantly faster, it’s far more judicious with material usage, and could even cut construction costs as a result.

The material’s compressive strength is three times greater than that of the conventional quick build brick,” Marijke Aerts, the project manager, told New Atlas.

“Besides the fibers in the concrete, the amount of wire-mesh reinforcement used is extremely limited. As a result of the printing technology used, formwork was redundant, saving an estimated sixty percent on material, time, and budget.”

The 980 square feet two-story home is still more of a demo than a livable structure, but it’s technically large enough and even features sustainable amenities, like solar panels and underfloor heating.

“Printing this building is mainly a statement,” Emiel Ascione, project manager at Kamp C, told Digital Trends.

“It shows the construction industry the accessibility and potential of this technique.”

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A day after the news announcing the GRAND CHALLENGE , I sent following e-mail to :

Housing Minister, Shri Hardeep Singh Puriji :

Hm.moca@nic.in / hardeepsinghpuri@yahoo.com

Construction Technologies From Everywhere ……………………………………………[ 25 Feb 2018 ]

- Where I wrote :

I urge shri Hardeep Singh Puriji ( Minister for Housing ) to invite the FOREIGN COMPANIES mentioned in my following blogs to come forward to give demonstration of their technologies

BuildingCastles in Air ? [ 25 July 2015 ]