Construction 3D Printing
Top 10 Moonshot Ideas for 3D Printing’s Future
As the year comes to a close, it’s clear that additive manufacturing (AM) is entering a new phase. Costs are falling, supply chains are changing, government spending is rising, and…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 27, 2025: Additive Construction in the U.S., Canada, & India
In this holiday weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, the focus is entirely on additive construction! We’ll start with news out of North America, specifically Canada and the United States, and…
Alquist Launches Concrete Printer Brand & Expands Construction 3D Printing Partnership with Walmart
One of the highest-profile use cases ever in the additive construction (AC) space occurred a little over a year ago, when Walmart announced that it had partnered with Colorado’s Alquist…
This Year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 Innovators Pushing 3D Printing Into the List
For 15 years, the Forbes 30 Under 30 North America list has highlighted young people who are reshaping industries across the U.S. and Canada. This year, a few innovators stand…
Indian Additive Construction Firm MiCoB Delivers Over 500 Bunkers to the Indian Army
Like many nations attempting to capture Industry 4.0 gains, India laid out an ambitious long-term plan in 2014 to transform its economy: the Make in India initiative. However, as is…
Boston’s Additive Edge at Autodesk: Harvard Researchers Turn Mining Waste into Masonry
When most people look at piles of mining waste, they see rubble. For Maddie Farrer and Chenming He, two researchers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), those rocks look…
3D Printing News Briefs, November 12, 2025: Standards, Printhead, UV Printing, & More
We’re starting with standards news from ASTM International in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to business, as Precision Plastics Australia launched a new collaborative venture. ValCUN…
A Need for New Business Models for Additive Construction Adoption? Not Really
Compared to other industries, the construction sector is known for its lower margins, largely due to the nature of projects and the competitive bidding process it undertakes to acquire them….
Boston’s Additive Edge at Autodesk: MIT Experiments with 3D Printed Concrete
At the Autodesk Technology Center in Boston, experiments don’t stay on paper for long. Ideas are tested at full scale, sometimes overnight. Among the largest machines in the space is…
Building Homes From Plastic: How Azure is Changing Construction
In recent years, the construction world has started looking closely at 3D printing. Builders want ways to save time, cut waste, reduce costs, and be more flexible with design. But…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 20, 2025: Standards, Floor Slabs, Wastewater Treatment, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with standards news from ASTM. Then, we’ll move on to a new 3D printable alloy from QuesTek Innovations, and Autodesk Research…
Beyond Cement: Rethinking Materials in Additive Construction
When people think of 3D printed buildings, they usually picture layers of concrete stacked up like a giant piping machine. But Stephan Mansour, a consultant and global expert in additive…
LibWork 3D Prints Residential Home in Japan with Soil & Crane WASP
Construction firm LibWork has 3D printed a home using WASP 3D printers and soil in Japan. The home is roughly 100 m² and was made using a Crane WASP printer….
3D Printing News Briefs, August 30, 2025: Hybrid Construction, FEA Simulation, & More
We’re covering a variety of applications in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, starting with construction. Then it’s on to automotive 3D printing and 3D printed drones. We’ll end with…
Vessels & Voids Exhibition Connects 3D Printing, Clay, and Architecture at Rockville’s VisArts
At the Kaplan Gallery in Rockville, Maryland, a new exhibition is bridging centuries-old clay traditions with some of the most exciting tools of modern architecture. Vessels & Voids: Architects and…
3DPOD 266: Composite AM and Convergent Manufacturing with Habib Dagher, University of Maine
Dr. Habib Dagher founded the University of Maine‘s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, which, with 400 researchers, is one of the leading composites research centers in the world. In 3D…
University Student Helps Build COBOD Construction 3D Printers Around the World During Internship
Recently, Denmark-based additive construction (AC) company COBOD International announced that it had installed its BODXL system in Doha, Qatar. The massive 50 x 30 x 15m machine—about the size of…
Community College Professor 3D Prints First Flood-Resistant Concrete Structure
While the need for hurricane-resistant homes has been a pressing issue for decades, recent catastrophic events in the United States are also highlighting the need for flood-resistant housing. Inspired by…
Understanding Failure and How to Avoid It: Lessons from Forensics and Predictive Analysis in AM
Forensics and predictive failure analysis play a critical role in the safe and effective adoption of additive manufacturing—especially as the technology enters more high-stakes industries. Understanding failure is, ironically, one…
3D Printed Construction: Hype vs. Reality in 2025
In May, Starbucks opened its first 3D printed store, a small, drive-thru-only location in Brownsville, Texas. Designed in collaboration with construction technology company PERI 3D Construction, the structure grabbed attention…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 12, 2025: Nerve Repair, Glass Nanostructures, adidas, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with medical news from 3D Systems, and then moving on to research about glass nanostructures and synthetic lichen. Then, 3D printing…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 9, 2025: Powder Supply, Software Bundle, Utilities, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with stories about partnerships, first between Sandvik and Additive Industries for powder supply, and then between AMT PostPro and TriMech Group for…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 5, 2025: Etsy Sellers, Kickstarter, Bridge Repair, & More
In this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, MyMiniFactory is targeting former Etsy sellers with its new Premium Merchant Program. QuesTek added new titanium alloy modeling capabilities to its ICMD software…
Progress Group Innovates in Large-Format Binder Jet 3D Printed Construction
There has been a lot of hype in 3D printed construction, but there has been very little innovation. Enrico Dini developed a binder-based process, Contour Crafting did kind of a…
