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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Image courtesy of Block Research Group

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…

The 95-sq-m, single-storey building took 43 days to print, and cost $31,200 (Courtesy of Cobod)

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…

$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…

Image courtesy of the municipality of Dubai

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…

Image courtesy of 14Trees

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…

Peri 3D Construction aims to print the two-story, 330-sq-m building for the third division SC Capelle football team in about 140 hours (Steinhoff Architekten/Courtesy of Cobod)

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…

Ranging in size from 400 to 900 sq ft, the homes use a cement replacement material (Courtesy of Eco Material Technologies)

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…

Printing the 940-sq-m barn involved five moves of the printer and gantry (Courtesy of Cobod)

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…

Ukrainian humanitarian group Team4UA leads the project with the support of Lviv City Council

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…

Organisers say it could provide a blueprint for getting more than 5 million children back to school after Russia’s invasion (Photograph courtesy of Cobod International)

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…

SCG used Cobod’s BOD2 concrete printer to build the 345-sq-m facility (Courtesy of Cobod)

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…

One of Azure’s modern accessory dwelling units (Azure Printed Homes)

3D printed “Veteran’s Village” in California

Start-up Azure Printed Homes will create 26 affordable 3D printed homes for “Veterans Village,” a new development in Twentynine Palms, southern California. Each of the houses will measure 900 sq…

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