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Brief of diving:
- The International Codes Council is developing a new set of guidelines that will be applied to what calls 3D automated construction technology for 3D concrete walls, According to the Board of Rules.
- The standard will address the requirements of 3D automated construction technology and the 3D concrete used to build 3D interior and exterior walls. It covers components built with or without a structural steel reinforcement, used as pad walls, walls that do not load and shear walls in structures of a story or various floors, according to the organization.
- The Council has been working on these rules since October 2023 and has recently met on October 11 to approve its draft public commentary. The CPI will hold its next meeting on Friday, February 14, where members of the Evaluation Committee will discuss public comments on this proposal.
Divide vision:
Historically, 3D printing has Failed to take off -s in commercial construction Due to what Patti Harburg-Petrich, then a director at the Los Angeles Engineering Engineering Office, Buro Happold, said that in 2023 it was the result of the adoption of delay codes.
“The problem is that it takes a lot of time for new technologies and creation innovations to join the building code,” said Harburg-Petrich. “It is for a good reason: security is the highest priority, so the construction code is inherently conservative. But this also makes it a long process and requires time to get the new technology to be incorporated into the code” .
However, contractors continue to experiment with the building’s method. FMGI, a general contractor from Woodstock, Georgia, built a Addition printed in 3D in Walmart’s Athens, Tennessee, location In collaboration with Greey, Alquist 3D, based in Colorado. Working on a second project between the couple (an additional 5,000 foot to a Walmart supercenter in Huntsville, Alabama) will begin this month, according to FMGI website.
The ICC already has measures in place for 3D printing on the residential side of the construction, which includes Rules for lowercase houses and for the General residential code.
