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Sitharaman inaugurates India’s first 3D printed house at IIT Madras

Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman virtually inaugurated India’s first 3D printed house constructed at IIT Madras Campus by Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions, a deep tech startup founded by IIT Madras Alumni on Tuesday. With a built area of about 600 square feet, the single storey home has a functional space comprising of […]

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman virtually inaugurated India’s first 3D printed house constructed at IIT Madras Campus by Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions, a deep tech startup founded by IIT Madras Alumni on Tuesday.

With a built area of about 600 square feet, the single storey home has a functional space comprising of a single bedroom, hall, and kitchen, with the entire ensemble being designed, developed, and realised by Tvasta’s indigenous ‘Concrete 3D Printing’ Technology. The house was developed in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter. According to an official release, the concrete 3D printing technology is a ‘Ready-to-Implement Methodology’ with no lead time on manufacturing, which significantly reduces the construction time. This ‘Made In India’ technology has the potential to change the term ‘building’ to ‘printing’ in the near future. A Video of 3D Printed House can be found at the official website.

Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions is part of the new incubator of the Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs established at IIT Madras called ‘ASHA Incubator.’ Tvasta was co-founded by three IIT Madras Alums of the 2016 Batch -Adithya VS (Department of Mechanical Engineering), Chief Executive Officer, Vidyashankar C. (Department of Electrical Engineering), Chief Operating Officer, and Parivarthan Reddy (Department of Mechanical Engineering), Chief Technology Officer.

Addressing the inauguration virtually, Sitharaman, said, “India definitely needs such solutions which do not require much time. This technology enables building a 3D printed house in 5 days. With the Prime Minister’s goal of ‘Housing for All by 2022,’ we have a huge challenge before us. A huge challenge of meeting that deadline and making sure that people who need houses get it at an affordable price. The Government incentives for that are available.”

“The presentation made earlier by Tvasta tells me everything is Atma Nirbhar. From the idea, till the furnished house, even the design is all from India. India needs more of this… Conventional housing requires timing, material, logistics, transporting of material, and so on. But if this technology can produce houses in different locales at five days per house, it would not be a big challenge to build 100 million houses by 2022,” she added.

Sitharaman further congratulated IIT Madras for encouraging innovation and bringing new concepts and ideas to life. “I think the Technology Sub-Mission, which is working under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) also has a project called ‘Light House Project,’ wherein in Indore, Chennai and a few other places are building 1,000 houses in each location through innovative technologies in 12 months. If the policymaker are aware of these developments that you have shown now, India is set for a bright future in terms of meeting the target for affordable houses,” he added.

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