3D Printing

Fibonacci House, a 3D-printed structure using Laticrete 3D printing mortar. Photo: Twente Additive Manufacturing
The Fibonacci House, which we have named after Leonardo Fibonacci, the medieval Italian mathema...
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A project architect at Krueck + Sexton used a 3D printer in his apartment to produce the first batch of face shields requested by AMITA Health Resurrection Medical Center Chicago. Images: Krueck + Sexton
The architecture firm Krueck + Sexton is producing 100 shields for a Chicago-area hospital.
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University of Chicago Medicine workers with face shields produced by bKL architects
Architecture firms from coast to coast have suddenly turned into manufacturing centers for the...
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This survey of 130 of the nation's largest architecture, engineering, and construction firms trac...
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All images courtesy Apis Cor
Apis Cor 3D printed the building.

Image by ZMorph3D from Pixabay
More manufacturers now include this production process in their factories.

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XtreeE focuses on large-scale 3D-printing for the AEC industry.

Courtesy COBOD
COBOD developed the printer, dubbed the BOD2.
A 21-foot-long shipping container houses a mobile additive manufacturing “toolbox” that includes two Panasonic robots that can 3D print, weld, cut, and polish. The unit’s transportability to jobsites could make it ideal for producing bespoke spare parts in the field. Courtesy of Autodesk
Prototype mobile 3D printing shop aims to identify additive manufacturing applications for constr...
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Normally, it takes 10 Marines five days to build a traditional barracks out of wood.

The Dubai Future Foundation recently announced the Dubai 3D Printing Strategy.

In her talk at Accelerate Live! 2018, micro-buildings design expert Aeron Hodges, AIA, Senior Designer/Manager Stantec Architecture, explored the key drivers of the micro-buildings movement, and how the trend is spreading into a wide variety of building typologies. Photo: BD+C
BD+C’s second annual Accelerate Live! AEC innovation conference (May 10, 2018, Chicago)...
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Photo courtesy 3D Printhuset.
Construction ran a few weeks behind schedule, but the 3D printing wasn’t to blame.

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Additive Manufacturing Standardization Collective (AMSC) will develop industry-wide additive manu...
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Sean Parham, VP of Product Marketing and Management with Aditazz Photo: Adam Grubb
BD+C’s inaugural AEC innovation conference, Accelerate Live! (May 11, Chicago), featured...
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Photo courtesy Dubai Media Office
Dubai kicks off 3D-printing tech initiative with a novel office project.

Photo courtesy of CyBe Construction
The building is a lab for research on drones and 3D printing technology.


Rendering courtesy of Haseef Rafiei.
The building is designed to print and dispense its own dwellings in vending machine-obsessed Toky...

To accommodate rises in its national stature and enrollment, UC Merced has embarked on an ambitious four-year expansion program that will add new academic, housing, and student-life facilities to its enlarged campus. Image: University of California, Merced
Its growth strategy includes adding 1.2 million sf of space for teaching, housing, and research. ...

Photo: Vimeo
The 3D concrete printing industry is expected to more than double in size within the next five ye...
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Photo: Government of Dubai
The 2,690-sf structure took 17 days to print. City officials say the labor cost was only half as...
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Photo: Autodesk, via Co.Design.
By networking 3D printers and divvying up the work, the project creates big items 80% to 90% more...
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Photo: Jun Shimadaa and Jan Vranovský, via Dezeen.
The pen, which melts and strings together plastic filaments, can be used to make large-scale temp...
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Photo Courtesy of Microscape
Starting with Manhattan, the company hopes to expand to other cities, villages, and "suburban cul...
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Photo Credit: © Amalgamma
The team's Fossilized project allows for structures that are more varied and volumetric than othe...
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