Los Angeles city officials are weighing whether to offer a $75,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people who started a destructive fire that consumed an apartment complex under construction in downtown Los Angeles last month.

City Councilman Jose Huizar proposed the reward Tuesday in the wake of the late-night blaze that consumed a seven-story building in the Da Vinci apartment complex in the 900 block of Fremont Avenue.

Huizar, whose district includes downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights, is hoping the reward will compel witnesses to come forward with information and help solve the case.

No one was injured in the Dec. 8 fire, which took 250 firefighters an hour and half to extinguish.

Heat and flames from the blaze caused damage to the 110 Freeway and nearby buildings. The fire caused between $25 million and $30 million in damage, city officials said.

Detectives and arson specialists with the LAPD, Los Angeles Fire Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives combed the 180,000-square-foot site for evidence.

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SHANGHAI, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Shanghai company WinSun claimed it 3-D printed a five-story apartment building and villa using a 500-foot-long printer.

The apartment is undecorated, but the 11,840-square-foot villa is luxuriously decorated and on display in Suzhou Industrial Park.

It was printed using a special formula for patented "ink" comprised of construction waste such as concrete, fiberglass, sand, and a special hardening agent. It allows them to use a high amount of recycled material.

The process reduces construction waste by 30 to 60 percent, production times by between 50 and 70 percent, and labor costs by between 50 and 80 percent.

The same company claimed to print 10 houses in 24 hours in April.

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The utility of 3D printing continues to grow with leaps and bounds and the most recent invention, the worlds first 3D-printed apartment building, is on display now at Chinas Suzhou Industrial Park. The building is the pet project of Shanghai-based company WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co. who have been working hard in the industrial construction 3D-printing market.

The building stands five-stories, encompasses a 1,100 square meters (11,840 square feet) and is constructed from 3D-printed materials made from recycled materials combined with fast-hardening cement. The size makes this the tallest 3D printed structure in the world.

The large pieces are fabricated by this printer at WinSuns facility, shipped and assembled on-site. The components are complete with steel reinforcement and insulation to provide with official building standards.

The 3D printer array is monstrous in size compared to consumer models: 6.6 metres high, 10 metres wide and 40 metres long (20 by 33 by 132 feet). The printer was invented by WinSuns CEO and founder Ma Yihe who has brought the firm notoriety already by printing 10 houses in a day during March 2014.

Images and descriptions of the printing process from WinSuns website show the printer producing pieces by laying the frame and sides of the hollow walls and then filling it in with a zig-zag pattern of material to provide reinforcement. The company says that design is controlled by a CAD design template and a computer controls the extruder to lay down the final product.

According to WinSun the 3D-printing process saves between 30 and 60 percent on construction waste, can decrease production time between 50 and 70 percent and labor costs by 50 to 80 percent. The villa cost the company around $161,000 to build.

The company expresses an interest in using 3D-printing technology to reduce waste by using recycled materials and improve safety for workers and the environment, by exposing workers to less noise and hazardous materials.

WinSun wont release how large the architectural pieces it can produce are, however hopes to use its technology to facilitate even larger construction projects in the future including on bridges and skyscrapers.

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A Chinese company has set another world first in 3-D printing living space.

WinSun, the company that used 3-D printed materials to aid in constructing 10 houses in a period of 24 hours in March 2014, has constructed the worlds first 3-D printed apartment building. The five-story building made its debut in Suzhou Industrial Park in Suzhou, China, alongside a separate, 3-D printed 11,840 square foot villa.

Printing large parts for buildings also calls for a large 3-D printer to accomplish the feat. WinSun used, according to CNET, a proprietary 3-D printer measuring 132 feet long, 33 feet wide, and 20 feet tall to print each part of the mansion. The 3-D printer uses a material created from ground construction and recycled industrial waste to construct the parts. Once the pieces were printed, the assembly of the building occurred at the site, with the addition of steel reinforcements and insulation to meet Chinas building codes.

The company, however, does not want to stop there. WinSun, CNET reports, aims to use its 3-D printing technology to tackle even larger projects, including bridges and skyscrapers.

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Vital services such as meals on wheels and home visits have been hit particularly badly since the ConDems came to power in 2010, Age UK found.

The charitys Caroline Abrahams described the studys findings as devastating and said: Hundreds of thousands of older people who need social care are being left high and dry.

Age UK found the number of over-65s receiving care fell nearly 30% from 1,230,625 under Labour to 849,280 now.

The amount of day care places plunged 67% from 178,700 to 59,125 and numbers getting meals on wheels fell 63.7% from 81,460 to 29,569.

Half of the one million elderly people who struggled to wash or bathe and a third of the 350,000 who had difficulty getting to the toilet got no help.

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