his Spring/Summer we partnered with Boughton Loam, a leading local soil supplier. We have been able to streamline our R&D process by integrating 3mm screened earth into our preparation process and eliminate the need to laboriously process excavated soil by ourselves.
This has been a game-changer for us in our R&D phase, providing a consistent, reliable product which allows us to develop our 3D printing process, trial a much bigger range of mixes, test out biopolymers, and introduce waste stream biproducts such as stone dust, into our trials. Access to large quantities of earth with the same characteristics and profile allows us to work from a controlled standard base level. This provides the capacity to scale up our prints to full scale walls, knowing that the results for each prototype and test piece are comparable – an important baseline for developing our work.
