UK Installs First 3D Printed Water Chamber
The first 3D printed concrete water chamber has been built and installed in Cheshire, UK. Among other things, the printed water chamber, which is to be installed as part of the local ...
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3D Printing in Construction
3D printing in construction, also known as contour crafting or building printing, is what many believe the future of construction. The printing of buildings has a lot of potential advantages when compared to conventional construction methods. There are lower labor costs involved, construction can be done quicker and there is less to no waste produced. The concrete waste and failed prints that do occur can be reused as raw material for printing.
This technique can also be used for the construction of extraterrestrial structures on for instance the Moon or other planets where environmental conditions are less conductive to human labor-intensive building practices.
House Printed in Spain (with eggs and dirt)
Researchers from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) have printed Spain’s first additively manufactured house. The small house has been printed on the facilities ...
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UMaine Printing Homes with AI and Sawdust
Our favorite large boat-printing academic institute, the University of Maine (UMaine) is making news again, this time with a new approach to construction printing that aims to address the ...
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Hempcrete Printed Homes Coming Soon
Hemp has historically been used for a wide range of applications spanning from rope production and textile manufacture, through to more modern day applications such as its usage in ...
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Qatar to 3D Print Desert Hospital
Plans have been unveiled for a new hospital complex in the gulf state of Qatar. The proposed Al Daayan Health District in Qatar will consist of open spaces designed to promote the ...
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AM Homes Used for Flood Relief
There is often much talk of the potential benefits of using additive manufacturing to produce emergency housing for those in areas experiencing disaster, but seldom do we get to see these ...
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Custom Printed Plastic Banisters coming to a Stairway Near You
We see a lot of metal and concrete printing in the construction industry (mostly concrete), and rarely get to read about use of plastics in construction, except for the occasional story on ...
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Two New 3D Printed Bridges Unveiled to the Public
3D printed bridges are apparently like buses in the sense that you wait a lifetime for one to materialize, and then two show up at once. And that is exactly what has happened this week ...
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A Closer Look at Construction Printing in Dubai
Dubai is embracing 3D printing from a whole bunch of different angles as you may have seen recently. In 2019 they received a Guinness World Record for largest 3D-printed structure (by ...
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India Unveils First AM House
It’s been a good year for 3D printed houses, at least in terms of AM construction companies getting a little airtime. And the latest company to dip their toes into the extruded concrete ...
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Concrete Additive Manufacturing Gets Intricate
Most of the concrete printing stories we look at on this website are focused on large scale concrete printing systems with fairly large nozzles for a large flow rate. It’s great for laying ...
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Baubot Construction Robot Can 3D Print And More
At this point, construction-scale 3D printers that can print houses aren’t exactly new. Most of those house printers are essentially just very large cartesian 3D printers that extrude some ...
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Building to get Freeform 3D Printed Composite Facade
A building facade has been printed in Chattanooga, USA, and will be mounted onto the front of a local branch of the Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union bank. What is of interest here is ...
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ICON AM Houses Hit the Market in US
The city of Austin, Texas will be about to get its first opportunity to buy 3D printed homes, when real estate developer 3DStrands put their additively manufactured properties on the ...
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World’s First 3D Printed School in Madagascar
It’s great to see the promises of AM construction finally being deployed in a useful humanitarian role, rather than simply as the latest architectural fad for well-heeled ...
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First 3D Printed Home up for Sale
We see a lot of 3D printed homes on this website, but we don’t hear much about people actually buying them on property sites. They tend to be custom orders direct from the ...
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PERI 3D Prints First Apartment Building in Germany
3D printing buildings is becoming big business as PERI GmbH is printing Germany’s first apartment building in Wallenhausen, Bavaria using their BOD2 portal printer. There will be five ...
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3D Printed Plastic Rebar Replacement Used to Make Greener Concrete
I always start these eco-friendly concrete articles with a reminder of how environmentally unfriendly normal concrete manufacturing is, because it really can’t be overstated. First up, ...
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3D Printing Glass Fixtures for Facades
Building glass facades help to create a smooth aesthetic for buildings, often concealing structure underneath to create something more visually fitting for the city where the building is ...
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ICON gets Contract for Moon Printing
US-based architectural 3D printer company ICON has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract including funding from NASA, which will help them develop new technologies ...
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