News MIT team finds way to print glass bricks A team at MIT has published a research paper detailing its work on printing bricks made from recycled glass that can be interlocked like Lego pieces. The use of printing…
News Walmart prints 20ft-high extension to Tennessee supermarket US retailer Walmart has expanded a supermarket in Athens, Tennessee, with a 20ft-high printed concrete structure. The 8,000 sq ft expansion will be used by Walmart’s online pickup and delivery…
Innovation New printed wood floor cassette can replace concrete and steel, say researchers Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Maine have unveiled a 3D-printed, recyclable, natural-material floor cassette they say is strong enough…
News Central Asia’s first printed house can withstand earthquakes Central Asia’s first 3D-printed house has been completed in Almaty, southern Kazakhstan. The 100 sq m building is made from extra-strong concrete that will able to withstand earthquakes measuring up…
News Germany gets 3D printed warehouse A German team has built a warehouse in Stuttgart with load-bearing concrete walls using a continuous 3D-printing process. The structure, which the team describe as a “world first”, was created…
News North America gets first 3-storey printed building Canadian robotic construction firm nidus3D has completed North America’s first printed building higher than two storeys. The 420-sq-m concrete residential building near Toronto has 3.5 storeys with a steel-framed roof.…
News Heidelberg data centre is ‘Europe’s biggest printed building’ Peri 3D Construction has handed over a printed data centre in Heidelberg, Germany. It calls the 600-sq-m building, named “Wavehouse”, Europe’s biggest printed building so far. Yesterday, it handed the…
News Holcim and Zaha Hadid Architects team up to print circular bridge A pedestrian bridge has been 3D-printed in Lyon by a team that included Swiss cement-maker Holcim, British designer Zaha Hadid Architects, ETH Zürich and Austrian printing specialist Incremental3D. The precursor…
News India proclaims world’s first printed post office Indian contracting giant L&T Construction has printed a post office in Bengaluru, India. The 95-sq-m, single-storey building took 43 days to print, and cost $31,200. It is India’s and the…
News $1m prize for “most important architectural competition in history” Texas 3D-printing company Icon has launched Initiative 99, an architecture competition to design affordable housing units costing less than $99,000 to build. The competition has a total prize fund of…
News Dubai issues first licence for printed villa construction The municipality of Dubai has issued its first printing construction licence for private use, allowing a villa to be extruded in one session in the city’s northern Al Awir 1…
News 3D printer for Africa launched by Holcim and UK government A printer intended for use in Africa has been launched by a joint venture between Swiss cement maker Holcim and the UK government’s British International Investment (BII) agency. 14Trees says…
News Europe to get first printed football clubhouse Peri 3D Construction is set to create Europe’s first 3D printed football clubhouse in Nordkirchen, Germany. It aims to print the two-story, 330-sq-m building for the third division SC Capelle…
News First low-carbon, affordable homes printed in Texas A US-based 3D print construction company, Hive 3D, is printing five affordable homes made with near-zero carbon concrete in the tiny Texas town of Round Top, west of Houston. It…
News Florida horse barn becomes world’s ‘largest printed building’ Florida-based contractor Printed Farms has printed a luxury horse barn in Wellington, Florida, creating what Danish printer-maker Cobod says is the biggest 3D printed building in the world. The 940-sq-m…
News Ukraine’s printed school in pictures This week GCR reported on Europe’s first 3D printed school taking shape in Lviv, western Ukraine. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint for getting more than 5 million children…
News Europe’s first printed school rises in Ukraine A humanitarian project is underway to print a 506.5-sq-m primary school in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, with completion expected in weeks. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint…
News Thai cement firm prints two-story medical centre Thailand’s Siam Cement Group (SCG) has printed a two-storey medical centre in Saraburi, Thailand, billed as the first of its kind in the world. It used Danish printer-maker Cobod’s BOD2…