14Trees is<\/a> using 3D printing on a large scale to build affordable residential and school buildings in Africa. Starting in Malawi, such buildings should be realized in record time in this way. The walls of the first school in Salima were printed in just 18 hours, according to a media release<\/a> . In addition, the CO2 footprint is reduced by up to 70 percent through “optimized use of materials”.<\/p>\n

14Trees is a joint venture between the building materials group LafargeHolcim<\/a> and the London-based impact investor CDC Group<\/a> . "I am thrilled with the work our joint venture 14 Trees is doing," said Miljan Gutovic, Head of the Middle East and Africa region and member of the LafargeHolcim Executive Committee, quoted in the press release. "Starting in Malawi, we will use the technology throughout the region and already have projects in the pipeline for Kenya and Zimbabwe."<\/p>\n

Tenbite Ermias, Managing Director Africa of CDC, is convinced that “the broad application of the groundbreaking cutting-edge technology” of 14Trees enables “enormous development effects”. "This is a wonderful example of our investments in companies that contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals."<\/p>\n

As the message goes on to say, UNICEF estimates that Malawi is short of 36,000 classrooms. With conventional technology, this would take 70 years. According to 14Trees, this gap could be closed in ten years with 3D printing. In addition, the local projects would create qualified jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

14Trees, Gemeinschaftsfirma des Baustoffkonzerns LafargeHolcim und des britischen Impact-Investors CDC Group, baut per 3D-Druck Schulen und Wohnraum in Afrika. Start ist in Malawi. Dort will 14Trees den Schulmangel in zehn statt 70 Jahren beheben.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[12480,12476],"tags":[15588,15590,15592,12536,12525,12526,12528,15593,15594,14034],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immo-invest.ch\/dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}