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A 3D-Printed house to be made entirely from bio-based materials

Maine doesn’t have enough affordable housing or enough workers to build more, but it does have quite a bit of excess wood fiber from its substantial forestry industry. Seeking a solution to those pro...

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Washington, D.C.: First mass timber commercial office building opens

The office building at 80 M Street SE in Washington, D.C., might not stand out if you walked past it. It sits comfortably between several other office buildings, all sporting the same modern exterior...

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Saudi Arabia: the world’s tallest on-site 3D printed building completed

North America may lead the development in terms of the amount of new 3D printed buildings. However, Europe and The Middle East are clearly leading the way in the use of 3D construction printing techn...

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Backyard homes to be built by 3D printers

Ross Maguire, CEO of Azure Printed Homes, is holding what looks like a piece of white plastic but he says it’s the future of accessory dwelling units, or more commonly known as ADUs, that clients can...

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New solution promises 90% cost reduction in concrete 3D printing materials

Concrete 3D printing of building shells has grown considerably in the last few years, with more and more building shells being 3D printed, even buildings with up to 3 floors and windmill towers. Howe...

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Steel or Timber? Carbon footprint of truss structures can be reduced with the aid of new studies

Buildings contribute significantly to global warming, not just in their ongoing operations but in the materials used in their construction. Truss structures — those crisscross arrays of diagonal stru...

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Texas: The World’s Largest 3D-Printed Community Is Coming

The 3D-printing method has become an alternative to building houses based on the old-fashioned way, with many championing its effectiveness and ability to reduce labor costs and construction time. ...

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Amsterdam: The World’s first 3D-printed steel bridge

Mark Girolami, professor at The Alan Turing Institute, stated that “3D printing is poised to become a major technology in engineering, and we need to develop appropriate approaches for testing and mo...

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Novel remote sensing monitoring program of bridges in Australia

The governmental authorities of Victoria in Australia are planning to deploy a remote structural health monitoring program for bridges. The program will be a joint venture between the Australian go...

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Researchers use photos and new AI tool to calculate stress and strain fields of materials

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a method to determine stress and strain distributions within a material based on an image depicting its internal structure. The...

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