News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
A 3D printed social housing development in Dubbo, Australia has been making significant progress. The project, which was announced this past summer, is spearheaded by the government of New South Wales and brings on local construction 3D printing company Contour3D, Crete-Tech Australia and Ash Group Holdings, an Aboriginal-owned organization specialized in sustainable housing.
Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno are working on a project that could enable the US Army to quickly produce infrastructure – such as buildings or bridges – in forward-deployment missions without relying on traditional building materials. The approach involves 3D printing concrete structures on site – eliminating the need to ship full-scale buildings or materials into challenging environments, including conflict zones.
In the late 15th century, polymath Leonardo Da Vinci drafted the first designs for a self-supporting bridge. Six centuries later and the bridge is still one of the most significant architectural inventions of human history. Recently, Da Vinci’s self-supporting bridge has inspired a project at the Polytechnic University of Bari, where a team in the ArCoD department led by Professor Giuseppe Fallacara, has partnered with 3D printing company WASP and stone processing specialists to create a 3D printed self-supporting bridge. The bridge, suitably named “Da Vinci’s Bridge”, has progressed in its development with a finished prototype.
Harcourt Technologies Ltd (HTL.tech), a construction 3D printing technology company in Ireland and the UK, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by constructing Europe’s first social housing project compliant with the ISO/ASTM 52939:2023 additive manufacturing standard, adopted by Ireland. Using COBOD’s BOD2 3D construction printer, HTL.tech showcased how 3D construction printing can meet housing demands efficiently while adhering to rigorous safety and performance standards.
Thousands of people experience homelessness every year in Austin, Texas. Fortunately, there are efforts underway to support these people by—as simple as it sounds—building housing for them. As part of this effort, construction 3D printing company ICON is once again teaming up with Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a local nonprofit that that has dedicated itself to supporting the Austin homeless community for nearly three decades, to build 100 more 3D printed homes in the Community First! Village.
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a 3D concrete printing method that captures carbon, demonstrating a new pathway to reduce the environmental impact of the construction industry.
The Texas Military Department (TMD) has opened its new, 2,600+ square foot 3D printed Training and Innovation Center at Camp Mabry. The Innovation Center will be part of TMD’s Joint Force Headquarters and will enable collaboration and planning with TMD and external partners on future innovation and modernization efforts. Over the past few months, TMD Service Members, along with 3D construction printing company ICON, designed and constructed the 3D printed Innovation Center.
Black Buffalo 3D (BB3D), a 3D construction printing company, and AM Unique – by Namthaja, have partnered to develop 3DCP projects in the Middle East. BB3D will add its NEXCON concrete 3D printers to AM Unique’s fleet, while AM Unique will leverage its expertise in design and 3D printing for residential, commercial, and industrial structures as an efficient alternative to traditional building methods.
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Eric Bennett, CEO of Frontier Bio, told us more about 3D printing in regenerative medicine and the development of lab-grown human tissues, aiming to ultimately eliminate the organ transplant waitlist. Frontier Bio’s groundbreaking applications, such as their “brain on a chip” technology, provide humane and highly relevant alternatives to animal studies in traumatic brain injury (TBI) research, with future potential for drug discovery in conditions like Alzheimer’s and Dementia.