housing crisis
3D Printing News Unpeeled: A $3000 SLS System, Construction Subsidies and Parameters
The Housing Affordability Crisis is one of Canadian President Trudeau’s biggest issues. Now the government has made subsidies available, including scaling new technologies, 3D printed housing and libraries of reapproved…
SikSika Nation to Receive 3D Printed Housing Community in Canada
In Canada, the soaring prices of homes have become one of the if not the biggest political issue at the moment, sparking widespread interest in possible solutions like 3D printing…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 24, 2023: EBAM, DLS, & 2GL, Construction, & More
In this Christmas Eve edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with EBAM, DLS, and Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography (2GL) 3D printing news. Moving on, Airtech Advanced Materials Group is…
Chattanooga to 3D Print Shelters for the Unhoused with Branch Technology
Branch Technology, an additive construction (AC) firm headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has partnered with Chattanooga’s city government to implement a pilot program that will use Branch’s proprietary Cellular Fabrication (C-Fab)…
COBOD Machines 3D Printing a House a Week in Kenya
COBOD, the Danish additive construction (AC) firm, has announced that the company’s printers are being used in Kenya to create the world’s largest community of printed affordable housing — topping…
3D Printing News Briefs, January 7, 2023: NSF Grant, Spare Parts, & More
We’re starting with research in 3D Printing News Briefs, as Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University researchers were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to enable smart 3D manufacturing, and a…
COBOD’s 3D Printers Moving Forward with Massive Construction Projects
Following a rush of investments from PERI Group, G.E. Renewable Energy, and Cemex Ventures, COBOD is lining up projects to set the tone for the future of 3D printing. In…
3D Printed Homes Catch the Eyes of Policymakers Across the US
This week, additive construction (AC) hit a major milestone. It had little to do with any development to the technology itself and more to do with public policy: Montana became…
Indian Cements and Tvasta to Collaborate on 3D Printed Housing
India’s acceleration of its investment in 3D printing over the past year has been striking, and lately the country appears to be especially intent on exploring 3D printed homes. The…
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…
