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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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.
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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New Hybrid Process Combines Concrete Casting with 3D Printing
Concrete. Love it or hate it, we sure do use a lot of it. It is the second most used material on the planet, right after water. As an illustration, concrete manufacturing is responsible ...
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Construction 3D Printing in Japan Blends Wet and Dry Spraying
Researchers in Japan are taking a common-sense approach to integrating 3D printing into their construction industry. Most companies that focus on 3D printed civil engineering structures do ...
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GE Plans to Make Wind Turbines Taller with 3D Printed Bases
As renewable energy initiatives sweep across the lands (and seas) of the world, an interesting data point has emerged: in many parts of the world, like those near coasts, mountain ranges, ...
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Wasp Releases New Concrete Printer
Italian industrial 3D printer manufacturer Wasp has just released the latest addition to its range of industrial and architectural 3D printers, the Delta Wasp 3MT Concrete. As you can ...
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Pittsburgh’s Neighborhood 91 Developing Connected 3D Printing Ecosystem
Pittsburgh's newest neigborhood, dubbed Neighborhood 91, promises to be the hub for modern manufacturing technologies. It will connect all components of the 3D Printing supply chain into one ...
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