3D Concrete Printed Residential Building for Low Cost Housing

Australia’s residential housing industry needs to decarbonise and reduce waste to landfill—at the same time as ramping up production to meet growing housing needs.

But it’s hard for builders to address these challenges while navigating a fragmented supply chain, low profit margins and evolving building codes and standards.

Ballarat builder Oasis Building Group is using state-of-the-art 3D printing technology to produce an advanced wall system to build residential homes. Using low carbon concrete as the building material will minimise waste and deliver excellent energy efficiency through the home’s lifecycle. Concrete 3D printing offers a way of producing housing faster than traditional methods and for a more affordable price.

In this project, Swinburne University researchers will help bring this product to market by testing the wall structures to ensure they meet standards in the National Construction Code, Building Code of Australia and the Green Building Council of Australia’s Green Star framework.

By project completion, Oasis will have the first ever Green Star certified 3D concrete printed display home to provide customers such as builders, homeowners and developers an experiential proof-of-concept.