HK-listed Jiayuan teams up with 3D printer for customised outdoor features

Hong Kong-listed property developer Jiayuan International Group is making a push into 3D-printing construction through a strategic partnership with WinSun Decoration Design Engineering, a Chinese company known for its technology that can 3D-print entire buildings.

Jiayuan International would work with WinSun to apply 3D printing technology for landscape gardening and outdoor products in its upcoming property projects, the company said. Once 3D-printing construction standards had been finalised in China, Jiayuan International would explore the possibilities of using the technology to construct buildings.

“Adopting 3D-printing technology helps to reduce both time and costs for construction ... [and] enables us to provide customised designs,” Jiayuan International chief executive Cheuk Hiu Nam said earlier this week.

“We believe that 3D printing is a technology that will become more mature and more widely used in the future. Right now, we’re still at the beginning ... in our new projects, we will start from landscaping gardening and outdoor products,” she said.

WinSun chairman Ma Yihe said the technology could cut building costs about 10 per cent compared with traditional construction methods at present but the company aimed for its 3D-printing construction technology to slash building costs 50 per cent once building standards had been finalised.

“For customised buildings, those savings will be much more, because it’s usually expensive to construct such buildings,” Ma said, adding that 3D printing made it easy for customisation at no extra cost because it was only a matter of inputting data to finalise the designs that would be printed.