{"id":195914,"date":"2025-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/autodesk-and-additive-tectonics-pioneer-3d-printed-flooring-method-construction-3d-printing\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:00:00","slug":"autodesk-and-additive-tectonics-pioneer-3d-printed-flooring-method-construction-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/autodesk-and-additive-tectonics-pioneer-3d-printed-flooring-method-construction-3d-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"Autodesk and Additive Tectonics pioneer 3D printed flooring method Construction 3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we very often hear about how <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\">3D printing<\/a> is used to construct walls for housing, floors are still a more niche subsegment of construction <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\">3D printing<\/a>. As p<a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/art\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a>ners Autodesk and Additive Tectonics recently demonstrated, however, there is big potential in leveraging additive manufacturing for the production of flooring, as the technology can unlock greater efficiency and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Software company Autodesk recently teamed up with 3D printed <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/architecture\" target=\"_blank\">architecture<\/a> specialist Additive Tectonics to explore the possibilities of <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\">3D printing<\/a> flooring slabs using 3D printed formwork, a low-carbon geopolymer concrete and natural-fiber reinforcement. The project was driven by the fact that conventional concrete floor construction is far from an efficient process, requiring lots of labor as well as many types of carbon-intensive materials like cement and steel.<\/p>\n<p>As Autodesk explains, traditional concrete floors have three key challenges. First, their reliance on cement and steel drives up the carbon footprint (cement, after all, is responsible for roughly 8% of all global CO\u2082 emissions). Second, they require formwork, often made from steel or wood, which are temporary and often discarded. And third, conventional concrete floors are not optimized in their design, resulting in heavy structures. <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\">3D printing<\/a>, with its design freedom and compatibility with all-around more efficient materials, can address all of these.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6336203321283560073.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\">  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Autodesk Research, we look for bold ways to solve challenges facing the industries we serve,\u201d the company said. \u201cTeaming up with research p<a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/art\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a>ner Additive Tectonics was a natural fit: their process demanded a new design mindset, and our tools could help push its potential. Together, we explored how to combine their manufacturing expertise with our design and simulation capabilities to reimagine structural building elements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 3D printed flooring project relied on Additive Tectonics\u2019 Selective Cement Activation (SCA) technology, a p<a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/art\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a>icle-bed <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\">3D printing<\/a> technique that selective applies a binder to layers of dry mineral powder resulting in high-resolution, functional structures. For the production of the stay-in-place formwork, SCA technology was used in combination with Additive Tectonics\u2019 econitWood material, a wood-mineral composite made from upcycled beechwood and magnesium oxide. The binder used is simply salt water, which is selectively sprayed from 2,500 nozzles in the SCA 3D printer<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #eaeaea7a;padding: 15px 30px;align-items: center;border-radius: 4px;box-shadow: -1px 4px 20px 0px #dedede;margin-top: 1em;margin-bottom: 1em\">\n<div style=\"flex: 1;padding-right: 30px\">\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 14px\">Manufacturing on Demand<\/h4>\n<div>Have design to produce? Get professional manufacturing suggestion for free at FacFox!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"background-color: #0baee8;color: white;padding: 10px 20px;border-radius: 4px\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fa-fw auxicon auxicon-cloud-upload\"><\/i> Get Quote<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The formwork design was optimized using Autodesk Inventor Nastran, a program with CAD-embedded finite element analysis, with the aim of minimizing material usage. This was ultimately achieved using a ribbed form that reinforced the flooring slab\u2019s load paths.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5218605969256616447.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\">  <\/p>\n<p>In the second step of the flooring production, the p<a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/art\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a>ners were interested in replacing steel rebar reinforcement with more sustainable materials. While Additive Tectonics first explore the potential of basalts, the team ultimately found the best results using flexible flax fibers. These were wound around built-in 3D printed pins in the formwork using a robotic arm. \u201cStructural stress maps were translated in Dynamo into continuous winding paths, allowing robotic placement of fibers within the complex formwork geometry,\u201d Autodesk specified.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a potassium-activated geopolymer mortar\u2014a more sustainable alternative to cement which is unviable for traditional flooring because of its incompatibility with steel\u2014was cast in the 3D printed formwork, creating a strong bond with the flax-fiber reinforcement. The results of this new flooring approach was a strong structure that is lighter and more ecological than conventional cement flooring.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Autodesk, this <a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/service\/3d-printing-service\" target=\"_blank\">3D printing<\/a>-centered approach to flooring construction is ready to scale. As the p<a href=\"https:\/\/facfox.com\/news\/topics\/art\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a>ners develop the project further, there is also the potential to integrate space for building services and attachment points into the flooring, which would eliminate the need for a suspended ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve only scratched the surface of all of these technologies, including sustainability,\u201d said Allen Groom, Principal Research Scientist at Autodesk Research. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve been able to prove is that we don\u2019t have to resort to straight lines, we can make complex geometries, we can reinforce them and we can make them trustworthy to incorporate into our structures.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 16px;border-left: 4px solid #cdcdcd;border-radius: 4px;background-color: #f9f9f9;font-weight: 500;color: dimgrey\">\n<h5 style=\"margin-bottom: 6px\">You might also like:<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voxelmatters.com\/lib-work-3d-print-earthen-house-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lib Work 3D prints 100m\u00b2 earthen house in Japan: <\/a>The home in question is the Lib Earth House Model B, and is reportedly the first \u201cfully operational residential house built through additive manufacturing using natural materials available on the market.\u201d One of the primary motivations for Lib Work was to phase out the use of cement in its builds. From an environmental standpoint, this makes perfect sense, as the production of cement is responsible for a significant amount of CO2 production (as much as 8% of the globe\u2019s CO2 emissions).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;color: grey\">* This article is reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voxelmatters.com\/autodesk-additive-tectonics-3d-printed-flooring\/\" target=\"_blank\">3D Printing Media Network<\/a>. If you are involved in infringement, please contact us to delete it.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"far fa-fw fa-user\"><\/i> Author:&nbsp;Tess Boissonneault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we very often hear about how 3D printing is used to construct walls for housing, floors are still a more niche subsegment of construction 3D printing. 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