The 3D-printing phase of Europe’s largest printed housing project, has been completed in Holstebro, west Denmark. Called “Skovsporet” (the forest trail), the project comprises 36 student apartments ranging from 40-to-50-sq-m…

Port authorities in Denmark have begun attaching 3D-printed artificial reefs to the sterile sheet piling of underwater harbour walls to coax sea life back.

German contractor Züblin and technology firm Instatiq are testing the boundaries of 3D printing by printing the top floor of a four-storey apartment building on site in the small city…

Danish 3D printer maker Cobod and Technical University (TU) Braunschweig have unveiled a construction robot that prints concrete and sprays shotcrete with a robotic arm. The arm can also sand…

What’s claimed to be the world’s tallest printed structure was unveiled this week in the southeastern Swiss mountain village of Mulegns. The 30m-tall “Tor Alva” – which means “White Tower”…

The Indian Institute of Technology has worked with the Indian Army on what they say is the “world’s highest on-site” print in the Himalayas. The military bunker in Leh, in…

The world’s first printed concrete social housing project has gone up in Ireland – a terrace of three, 3-bedroom houses in Grange Close, Dundalk, County Louth. The 330-sq-m development was…

A team from the University of Nevada, Reno is researching 3D printing capability for the US Army to help it build bridges and other infrastructure needed in conflict zones faster…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…