3d printed construction
Carnegie Mellon University Reinventing Eco-Friendly Architecture with 3D Printed Reclaimed Concrete
Pittsburgh continues to reinvent what it means to be the Steel City, turning to advanced new manufacturing tools and ideas to move toward a cleaner, more sustainable future. Carnegie Mellon…
ICON’s Concrete 3D Printing Tech Receives $207M in Funding
Within the same month, ICON unveiled a 3D printed Martian habitat and the largest 3D printed structure in North America, a barracks for the Texas Military Department. Now, the additive…
How a Team of Students 3D Printed a Lunar Rocket Pad Prototype
Early in 2021, a multidisciplinary team designed and tested the world’s first 3D printed rocket pad prototype for lunar missions. Built at a Texas Military Department location in Camp Swift,…
COBOD’s 2020 Financial Results Confirm Profitable Growth for Construction 3D Printing
It turns out that 2020 was an excellent year for Danish firm COBOD. The cement 3D printer manufacturer reported a gross profit of DKK 9.3 million ($1.5 million) for 2020…
Formerly-Homeless Man Becomes First US Resident of 3D Printed Tiny Home
A previously homeless man has become the US’s first resident of a 3D printed tiny home. 70-year-old Tim Shea now lives in a 400-square-foot house in Austin, Texas, printed by…
Branch Technology Raises $11M to Grow “Largest Fleet” of Construction 3D Printers
Branch Technology has announced that it has closed an $11 million funding round for its additive construction technology. With its 2018 Series A round, this brings the startup’s total funding…
US Military 3D Prints Buildings for Hiding Military Vehicles in 36 Hours
Numerous developers within the construction industry have begun to embrace 3D printing, extolling on the vast benefits, and showing off a range of projects from small structures to residential housing,…
Mighty Buildings’ Commercial House 3D Printing Automates Construction by 80 Percent
3D printing construction today can build more than just walls, structural shells or components. It can build the entire house, as Mighty Buildings has shown, including floors, ceiling, roofs and…
Floating 3D Printed House Completed on Schedule
They say that home is where the heart is—and for some, yes that may be in a tiny 3D printed home perched atop a pontoon boat. The 3D printing industry…
3D Printing with Cement: Novel Spray-Based Materials
Lu Bing recently presented a thesis, ‘Mixture Design and Processing of Novel Spray-based Cementitious Materials for 3D Printing,’ to the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Nanyang Technological…
The Year in Review: The 3D Printing Research Frontiers of 2019—from Medicine to the Moon
The gift of human life is so miraculous that you may find yourself overwhelmed with the complexity of it all if you think too long. The fact that we have…
Truth in 3D Printed Construction? “Nobody 3D Printed an Entire Building”
At 3DPrint.com, we’ve always been very skeptical about the goings-on in 3D printed construction. A lot of houses have been 3D printed in 24 hours, each time while conveniently forgetting…
3D Printing in the Construction Industry: Still Evolving
In ‘Success Factors for 3D Printing Technology Adoption in Construction,” thesis student Pankhuri Pimpley at the University of Maryland, College Park, explores not only the history and benefits of 3D…
University of Stuttgart Investigating Reinforcement of 3D Printed Concrete
The interest in 3D printed concrete continues to skyrocket – after all, who wouldn’t be interested in a solution that could allow for extremely rapid construction of structures like bridges…
Italy: WASP Engineers Make A Model Tiny Home Partially Out of 3D Printed Waste
We’ve have been following WASP for years, along with keeping tabs on progress at the village of Shamballa, a small and extremely progressive Italian community featuring homes fabricated with impressive,…
3D Printed Bridge Was a Labor of Love for Army Engineer
At Camp Pendleton in Southern California, mechanical engineer Megan Kreiger with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center spent some time recently working with a team on a project…
The 3DCONS Project Researching the Use of 3D Printing in Various Construction Applications
These days, 3D printing is frequently used in construction, and we’ve just learned of a new project that has a goal of further introducing the technology into the industry, specifically…
An Assessment of the Conditions Needed for 3D Printing A Village on the Moon
For a few years now, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been talking seriously about building a habitable village on the moon, and 3D printing is a big part of…
PERI Group Acquires Significant Stake in Construction 3D Printing Company COBOD International
In a refreshing change of pace from most construction 3D printing, Denmark’s 3D Printhuset, which made a name for itself with a three year, government-funded research project into the state…
3D Printing in Construction: ICON Seed Funding Yields $9 Million
3D printing continues to grow around the world, not just in popularity with makers in the mainstream, but also in a wide range of different important industries. The technology of…
3D Printhuset Announces New Company Dedicated to Construction 3D Printing
While there are many companies around that specialize in 3D printed construction, Denmark’s 3D Printhuset has become one of the most prominent. It is a company that does not believe in…
SCRIM: New Method of 3D Printing Concrete Uses Mesh to Create Lightweight Structures
3D printed construction is a growing field, with new methods being developed on a regular basis. The latest comes from the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) of the Royal…
How Economically Viable is 3D Printing Concrete For Construction?
3D printed concrete construction is becoming a practice that is being taken more seriously than ever before, as bridges, houses and other structures are being printed and shown to be…
How to 3D Print a Bicycle Bridge? Study Discusses Dutch Concrete Printing Project
In 2017, the world’s first prestressed 3D printed concrete bicycle bridge officially opened to cyclists. It was created by the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in collaboration with construction company BAM Infra, and was…
