Construction 3D Printing
3D Printing News Briefs, June 3, 2023: Beta Software, 3D Printing Walls, & More
We’ll kick things off in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with software, as General Lattice released a beta version of its Frontier software, and a research team out of Ondokuz…
3D Printing News Briefs, June 1, 2023: 3D Printed Medication, Medical Center, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting off with business, as Solukon announces new U.S. distribution partners. On to healthcare, Texas A&M University received a five-year NIH grant to…
COBOD to 3D Print School in Ukraine
Construction 3D printing firm COBOD has announced its involvement in a project to 3D print a school in Lviv, Ukraine. The single-story school will have a surface area of 370…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 17, 2023: Stress-Resistant Alloy, 3D Printed Trophies, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting off with a little research, as materials scientists developed a 3D printing process that produces an extremely stress-resistant alloy. Moving on to…
Concrete Dreams: 3D Printing for Military Construction Enables New Tactics
The US military has invested considerably in construction 3D printing. The Army in particular seems like it wants to develop recipes of local concrete mixes from all over the world,…
On the Ground with COBOD Construction 3D Printing at Ohio State
This winter, The Ohio State University’s Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME), which is one of the country’s largest additive research groups, received a COBOD BOD2 3D construction printer…
Concrete Dreams: Construction 3D Printing for the Military
The United States military has a high interest in 3D printing for construction. It is researching swarm construction, has awarded $3.2 million to research better concrete for 3D printing, funded hempcrete,…
Europe’s Largest 3D Printed Building to Be Built by PERI Group
COBOD, the world’s leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of additive construction (AC) platforms, announced that PERI Group is currently using the BOD2 system to construct Europe’s largest printed building: a…
Concrete Dreams: Construction 3D Printing for Disaster Relief
Whereas, in general, the additive construction hype is focused on houses, I’m much more focused on 3D printing money. I think that locally 3D printing mass-customized infrastructure at a factory…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 27, 2023: ChatGPT, Heat Exchangers, & More
We’re kicking things off in 3D Printing News Briefs today with the hiring of a new regulatory consultant to support RadTech and PAMA. Then, Ivaldi has released a ChatGPT-enabled digital…
XtreeE Grows Construction 3D Printing Network to 12 Global Sites
Since its foundation in 2015, French startup XtreeE has steadily grown from additive construction (AC) research at ENSA Paris-Malaquais (The National School of Architecture Paris) to becoming a fully-fledged business…
Concrete Dreams: Construction 3D Printing for the Developing World
A good deal of 3D printing for construction currently focuses on the developed world. 3D printed neighborhoods in Texas and the Netherlands are underway. Companies are looking at 3D printed…
ICON’s 3D Printed Habitat on Earth is NASA’s Stronghold for Mars Survival
Settling on Mars in the future means withstanding radiation levels, lack of oxygen, frozen water buried under polar ice caps, and cold weather plunging as far as -220 degrees Fahrenheit,…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 15, 2023: Hybrid Manufacturing, 3D Printed Insoles, & More
Kicking off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Eplus3D released a new hybrid manufacturing solution. In materials news, Formlabs has introduced its first flexible SLS 3D printing material. Then it’s on…
Biden Admin Announces $72M in Funding for Workforce Training in Clean Energy Advanced Manufacturing
Amid President Biden’s Investing in America campaign, a cross-country tour in which the commander-in-chief is touting his administration’s extensive support for reshoring American manufacturing, the US Department of Energy (DOE)…
“World’s Largest On-site 3D Printed Building” Completed in Saudi Arabia
If there were any doubters about the viability of additive construction (AC), their doubt has likely shaken by now. Not only has the sheer number of AC firms that have…
Construction 3D Printing Company Mighty Buildings Opens Factory in Mexico to Scale Climate-Resilient Homes
Mighty Buildings, the Oakland-based additive construction (AC) company, announced that it has opened a new factory in Monterrey, Mexico, to scale up production of its prefabricated, climate-resilient homes. Last October,…
3D Printing News Briefs, March 22, 2023: Carbon Sequestration, 3D Printed Bird Drones, & More
In 3D Printing News Briefs today, Meltio is expanding its worldwide partner network, and 3D Systems introduced its VSP Connect portal. Oregon State University and Sandia National Laboratories received a…
US Army to Study Construction 3D Printing for Disaster Relief Structures
A $3.5 million contract will see researchers from the University of Arkansas (U of A) study the use of construction 3D printing for disaster relief on behalf of the U.S….
ICON Tackles Affordable Housing at SXSW 2023 with 3D Printing Competition
Construction firm, 3D printer manufacturer, or both? No matter its formal category, the Austin-based construction technology company ICON is, above all, at the forefront of the digital possibilities of additive…
Construction 3D Printing Company ICON Enters Hospitality Market with Signature Boldness
ICON, an additive construction (AC) company based in Austin, TX, announced that it has partnered with hotelier Liz Lambert in a project that will relocate and expand the El Cosmico…
3DPOD Episode 143: Thermally Conductive Polymer 3D Printing with TCPoly CEO Matthew Smith
Matt Smith started his firm TCPoly while he was a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He parlayed this small business into manufacturing filament that is thermally, but not…
GE to Invest Nearly $500M in US Manufacturing, Including 3D Printing
In the latest signal that the pillars of US industrial output are serious about building on last year’s growing momentum to reshore the nation’s manufacturing, GE announced that it plans…
3D Printing News Briefs, February 23, 2023: 3D Printed Seafood, Buildings, & More
In 3D Printing News Briefs today, Artec 3D has opened a new production facility for optoelectronics in Luxembourg, while Axial3D opened a new medical 3D printer center of excellence. Mycorena…