UAE to get World’s First 3D Printed Mosque
The world's first 3D printed mosque is set to be constructed in the United Arab Emirates, as part of Dubai's ongoing long term... read more »
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.
The world's first 3D printed mosque is set to be constructed in the United Arab Emirates, as part of Dubai's ongoing long term... read more »
The University of Maine, known for printing large boats with their mammoth polymer extrusion printer, has revealed a house printed entirely out of... read more »
Early adopters who have dreamed of living in a printed home, but don’t want to drop a big pile of cash on the... read more »
A Hungarian architect by the name of Krisztian Gora has been experimenting with ecologically friendly materials, and has turned his skills to building... read more »
The first 3D printed concrete water chamber has been built and installed in Cheshire, UK. Among other things, the printed water chamber, which... read more »
Researchers from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) have printed Spain’s first additively manufactured house. The small house has been printed... read more »
Our favorite large boat-printing academic institute, the University of Maine (UMaine) is making news again, this time with a new approach to construction... read more »
Hemp has historically been used for a wide range of applications spanning from rope production and textile manufacture, through to more modern day... read more »
Plans have been unveiled for a new hospital complex in the gulf state of Qatar. The proposed Al Daayan Health District in Qatar... read more »
There is often much talk of the potential benefits of using additive manufacturing to produce emergency housing for those in areas experiencing disaster,... read more »
We see a lot of metal and concrete printing in the construction industry (mostly concrete), and rarely get to read about use of... read more »
3D printed bridges are apparently like buses in the sense that you wait a lifetime for one to materialize, and then two show... read more »
Dubai is embracing 3D printing from a whole bunch of different angles as you may have seen recently. In 2019 they received a... read more »
It’s been a good year for 3D printed houses, at least in terms of AM construction companies getting a little airtime. And the... read more »
Most of the concrete printing stories we look at on this website are focused on large scale concrete printing systems with fairly large... read 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... read more »
A building facade has been printed in Chattanooga, USA, and will be mounted onto the front of a local branch of the Tennessee... read more »
The city of Austin, Texas will be about to get its first opportunity to buy 3D printed homes, when real estate developer 3DStrands... read more »
It’s great to see the promises of AM construction finally being deployed in a useful humanitarian role, rather than simply as the latest... read more »
We see a lot of 3D printed homes on this website, but we don’t hear much about people actually buying them on property... read more »