Researchers in Austin have developed a method of successfully 3D printing a soil mixture, but it’s not as easy as it sounds.
Construction 3D printing is a relatively new discipline, and we made a list of the current players.
This week’s selection is the Future Tree by a group of researchers at ETH Zurich.
News from COBOD indicates they are to assist in the production of massive wind turbines by 3D printing large tower bases.
This week’s selection is “3D Concrete Printing Technology” by Jay G. Sanjayan, Ali Nazari and Behzad Nematollahi.
Researchers are exploring ways to use local soils and materials for 3D printed buildings, but it seems to be quite complex.
Twente Additive Manufacturing has developed a robotic-style concrete 3D printer that is capable of amazing detail and even overhangs.
COBOD’s BOD2 construction 3D printer seems to be catching on as the company has made multiple sales of the new device.
With all the attention being given to construction 3D printers, we thought it wise to see what an actual construction worker thinks of the technology.
This week’s selection is “3D Printing of Concrete: State of the Art and Challenges of the Digital Construction Revolution” by Arnaud Perrot.
Mass media continues to be fooled by the fake news of “3D printed homes in 24 hours”. We vent our thoughts on this ongoing debacle.
The number one material used in the global construction industry is concrete, but how is it being used with recent construction 3D printing ventures?
We just learned a lot more about the COBOD BOD2, the world’s largest construction 3D printer.
This week’s selection is “Screenhouse” by Artist Edra Soto.
Why do construction 3D printing? It seems that there is a big need for consultants to help architects, builders and others discover concrete 3D printing.
Is it possible to 3D print walls and entire buildings with 3D printers? The concrete part can indeed be 3D printed with equipment from companies like CyBe.
Could concrete ever be 3D printed in complex ways? This may come true according to research on how to reinforce extruded concrete for construction.
Where will concrete 3D printing lead? Will the construction industry undergo a revolution from computer controlled concrete extrusion? What will buildings look like?
Charles Goulding and Liam Nixon of R&D Tax Savers examine concrete 3D printing.
I’m reading about a very unusual technique for 3D printed casting that involves two soluble support materials.
A more sophisticated construction 3D printer has been announced by ICON.
This week’s selection is “3D Concrete Printing Technology: Construction And Building Applications” by Jay G. Sanjayan, Ali Nazari and Behzad Nematollahi
A construction project in Brooklyn is leveraging 3D printing the very practical way.
I’ve been reading more stories about 3D printed construction projects, and have realized something fundamental.
Today we’re looking at yet another new construction 3D printer, this time from S-Squared.
Researchers have developed a way to 3D print strong cement structures, but why couldn’t this be used in all 3D prints?
Sustainability is a major issue in today’s world, and additive manufacturing may be able to help the concrete industry lower CO2 emissions.
I’m seeing an increasing number of media stories talking about 3D knitting.
I’m reading a press release about another investment in a construction 3D printing company and had a thought.
ICON, an Austin, TX-based startup, has just raised a US$9M investment round.
New research from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore may signal a shift in how construction 3D printing is done.
The WASP Project is set to announce a large-scale construction printer.
After reading yet another wildly exaggerated story about 3D construction printing, I thought I’d make a list of things to do.
We were directed to a patent describing a composition for 3D printable concrete. This would certainly be a very useful capability, as the many attempts
Apis Cor says they are the first company to produce a mobile construction 3D printer, and they may in fact be right.
I’m looking at what might be the most bizarre 3D print-related launch campaign ever: 3D printing a life size castle.
WASP is set to display what might be the largest multi-function 3D printer in the world: the DeltaWASP 3MT.
Netherlands company Heijmans partnered with CyBe Construction to produce prototype concrete formworks. Apparently, they were successful.
We’re reading an interesting Instructable, which provides detailed instructions on how to build an actual, working concrete 3D printer. But we think this is definitely not for everyone.
We’ve reported on 3D printing concrete before, but 2016 looks to be the year that will finally see this production technique in widespread use.
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Welcome to Fabbaloo, one of the world’s oldest online news sources for 3D printing news. We’ve been in operation since 2007, where we first started examining the state of 3D printers. These devices are now relatively common among some circles in today’s world, but years ago it was extremely rare to see a 3D printer or even a 3D printed object.
At that time it was challenging to find any 3D printing news, so we decided to make our own site that covered 3D printer news, and even associated technologies like 3D scanning and 3D modeling. Today it is common to find 3D printers in schools, workshops and makerspaces, and you probably have been using 3D printed objects without even knowing they were 3D printed.
Today’s industry has finally taken up the challenge by installing thousands of industrial 3D printers, each producing previously impossible 3D printed parts that make today’s society far more efficient. The aerospace industry in particular has been producing many 3D printed parts, some even for flight critical purposes.
If you want to learn about 3D printers, then there’s no better place than Fabbaloo’s 3D printer news to see the latest happenings.
