3D-Printed Peat Houses

Jul-11-18 3D-printed peat houses offer a melding of traditional and modern house-building technology.

Developed by a team from the University of Tartu and the Estonian University of Life Sciences, the building material is made up of milled peat and oil shale ash, which functions as the binder. Oil shale ash has a very high pH value, so it is able to harden where other binders have been foiled by the chemical makeup of the peat. The 3D-printed material will harden within a day, but remain elastic enough for some time—which allows the blocks to be stacked tightly and without gaps.

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