- OK, so there are 400 yearly recorded natural disasters
in the world, and at least 10 war zones as we speak.
This means that every time such a disaster strikes,
it takes significant resources to rebuild.
Take a look here.
This is a typical construction site, where it takes
a minimum of three months for single-story houses
to be built. It's expensive.
It's time consuming.
It's labor intensive.
And it's a safety risk.
This all means that a family is out of home
with no shelter for that period--
no shelter.
Buildink is a 3D concrete printer
designed to build single-story houses in just one
week, reducing the total construction time up to 75%.
Our 3D printer also ensures cost savings and construction
in a safe manner.
At Buildink, we designed and assembled
a cable-driven robot, including an automated pulley system.
This design can give accurate results,
can be easily installed and dismantled on the worksite,
and can be done in many sizes--
2-by-2, 5-by-5, 10-by-10, or even bigger sizes.
In order to understand the idea of the cable robot more,
can we please move to demo?
Although our printer is located in a nearby workspace,
but it's a 2-by-2-by-2 meters cubed printer
and weighs over 300 kilograms.
So it's impossible to get it on stage.
But we will go through a live demo and show you our printer.
Technical.
Light.
- Can we switch to the video?
- Yes, please.
- There we go.
- OK.
So the software guy, the electric keyboard.
These are the complex motors that we created
connected to the cables.
Four motors connected to four cables
to move this printing plate in the middle of the printer.
As you can see, this is a demo, and this printer
is currently showing four layers of squares
printed on top of each other.
It's just a proof of concept of our printer.
Move two slides, please.
Besides this printer, building engineers also
created a concrete mixture by our civil engineer
who specializes in material engineering.
And we tested this concrete with one of the top concrete labs
in Lebanon.
The official results prove that this mix is two times stronger
than the traditional mixes, has 20 times faster setting time,
is highly flowable, so it can pass
easily through the printer.
It has instant layer bonding, which
is critical in 3D printing.
And on top of that, it's an environmental-friendly mix.
Besides the traditional way of building,
our competitors include control grafting technology.
Their design-- their design is a moving frame
design, which requires rails to be installed
around the printing area.
Although their design is very fast, where they can print
100 meters cubed house in just 24 hours,
however, it takes a lot of time to construct it.
Our second competitor is the Russian arm
of Apis Cor., currently the most successful under market.
It can be moved easily from one site to another,
but it can't close the buildings since it
should be installed in the middle of the printing area.
Now, we at Buildink, we took these throwbacks
of our competitors and developed the cable robot,
where they-- where the printing plate can move
freely throughout the cables.
The global market share of real estate
is currently estimated around $217 trillion,
with the Middle East region the fastest growing
construction area in the world.
The printing-- the market share of 3D printing
is currently estimated around $8.5 billion
and is estimated to reach $35 billion
in a five-year span, which gives Buildink a sweet spot.
A good example of this is Dubai, who
plans to have 25% of the new buildings
3D printed by year 2030.
At Buildink, we started taking small and medium construction
projects, where we are using our 2-by-2-by-2 meters cubed
printer, which is half the size of our full-size MVP that we
are planning to build in the near
future so we can print single-story
houses by the end of 2019.
Some custom designs of the printer
that we are aim-- that we have right now,
we can build outdoor benches, animal shelters, road blocks,
security cabins, and other designs that
will be-- these designs will be sold
at a price similar to the market,
but at a very faster rate.
We are currently in the final steps
of landing a strategic deal with a strategic partner, one
of the-- one of the largest construction
companies in the MENA region, with branches
across Europe and Africa.
Our team is made up of myself, the business manager, who
left his full-time job to make this start-up work,
and the group of hardworking engineers
of different backgrounds.
We have hardware engineers and robotics and electronics.
We have the civil and material engineer for creating
buildings concrete.
And we have software specialists.
Buildink is changing the way houses are built
and giving families homes where natural disasters
and wars destroy whole cities.
If you are a construction company
or interested in building fast, safe, and risk-free,
visit our website, buildink.com, to contact us.
Thank you.
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- All right, judges, who has the first question.
Yeah. - Test?
Hi.
Thank you for the presentation.
First question for me, you mentioned a lot
that it's fast to set a building and get it-- get them going.
And you tested that it's very fast to set the concrete.
I wonder what sort of test or simulation
you did for the long term of this building.
Will it last long term?
Will it-- will it--
will it survive at a rain, extreme weather, storms,
et cetera?
- Yes, of course.
This concrete mixture is an improved
formula of the traditional mixes that are formed right now.
So yes, it stays longer.
It's stronger.
It can take any rain, like any other concrete mixture.
So that's not a problem.
- Thank you.
Hello.
Thank you very much.
- You're welcome.
- Can you hear me?
Thank you very much for your presentation.
I really enjoyed that.
One question, and I know we're kind of far away from this.
But I want to know what you envision
the business model to be.
- We are currently going to land a deal with construction
companies where we can take construction projects,
help these companies in building houses
or in building parts of the houses for the long term.
As for now, we are only building,
like, outdoor benches and such small or medium-sized
furniture.
- And are you currently selling the small or medium--
are you selling it, or are you just testing it?
- Yes, we are selling, to paid customers.
- Thanks for your presentation.
- You're welcome.
- I wanted to ask you, what do you
think are the key ingredients for you
to scale and grow quickly?
And how do you plan on achieving that?
- Besides the financial help, we actually
need the help of a construction company
that we are in talks right now.
So if they can keep their eyes on us, help us in any matter,
and especially in civil engineering,
that would be great.
- Are there any climate-based restrictions that you have,
whether on the equipment or the mixture itself,
whether too hot or too cold, in terms of actually
producing buildings?
- Sorry, I [INAUDIBLE].
- Is there a temperature range to this, in terms of being,
you know, plus 40 degrees or way below freezing
where it won't work well?
- We are going to test this mixture next month in Dubai
or Saudi Arabia so we can know that its structure doesn't
change at high heat or at low heat.
So it is planned to be tested.
- Cool, thank you.
- You're welcome.
- OK, I just, another question.
So as you said, it's going to be the future, more
and more 3D printer, et cetera.
We're all worried about the environment and the future
as well.
So I wonder as well, when you designed your own concrete,
what--
how did you think about the environmental impact on it?
- Yes, we use some material different than normal cement.
We have to patent this mixture, so I can say what we can use.
- Right.
- But we took this into consideration.
We're using material that emits less CO2 to the air.
- OK.
- So that's it.
- How does your--
how does your competition look like?
And has this been done before?
Are you innovating?
And how do you--
how are you going to deal with the competition?
- As for the cable robot, it's for the first time--
it's done for the first time.
The cable robot in concrete, it's done for the first time.
So I think we can develop it very fast,
and taking into consideration what
our competitors do to avoid--
of course to avoid their mistakes.
- Any other questions?
All right, give it up for Buildink,
our very first start-up.
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Great work, guys.
- Thank you.