LafargeHolcim is calling on the world’s brightest students to reinvent the building industry, along with its partner Witteveen+Bos, a Dutch engineering and consultancy firm and with the support of COBOD and Ecole des Ponts. Students in engineering, architecture, and material science are encouraged to join in a construction 3D printing hackathon to pioneer new solutions, leveraging concrete 3D printing technology for more effective and efficient housing construction.

With 1.6 billion people lacking adequate housing and the building and construction sector accounting for 40% of the world’s CO2 emissions, 3D printing offers solutions to address both challenges. By building more with less, it is instrumental in accelerating the speed of construction, as well as reducing a building’s footprint. Leafutureding the way in green building solutions, LafargeHolcim is actively deploying 3D printing to address these challenges.

Important material and resource savings can allow for a significant reduction of environmental footprint while decreasing overall cost. Record construction productivity can be achieved, with the ability to build a house in just a matter of days.

The purpose of the hack is to come up with solutions that leverage new designs to optimize the use of material, improve the speed of construction and enhance aesthetics and customization potential of a residential building.

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