Innovation Tiny Swiss village gets world鈥檚 tallest printed tower What鈥檚 claimed to be the world鈥檚 tallest printed structure was unveiled this week in the southeastern Swiss mountain village of Mulegns. The 30m-tall 鈥淭or Alva鈥 鈥 which means 鈥淲hite Tower鈥…
91香蕉视频 Indian army 3D prints a bunker in the Himalayas The Indian Institute of Technology has worked with the Indian Army on what they say is the 鈥渨orld鈥檚 highest on-site鈥 print in the Himalayas. The military bunker in Leh, in…
91香蕉视频 Ireland gets world鈥檚 first printed social houses The world鈥檚 first printed concrete social housing project has gone up in Ireland 鈥 a terrace of three, 3-bedroom houses in Grange Close, Dundalk, County Louth. The 330-sq-m development was…
91香蕉视频 US Army trials 3D printed concrete for battlefield structures A team from the University of Nevada, Reno is researching 3D printing capability for the US Army to help it build bridges and other infrastructure needed in conflict zones faster…
91香蕉视频 MIT team finds way to print glass bricks A team at MIT has published a research paper detailing its work on printing bricks made from recycled glass that can be interlocked like Lego pieces. The use of printing…
91香蕉视频 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鈥檚 online pickup and delivery…
Innovation New printed wood floor cassette can replace concrete and steel, say researchers Researchers at the US Department of Energy鈥檚 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…
91香蕉视频 Central Asia鈥檚 first printed house can withstand earthquakes Central Asia鈥檚 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…
91香蕉视频 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 鈥渨orld first鈥, was created…
91香蕉视频 North America gets first 3-storey printed building Canadian robotic construction firm nidus3D has completed North America鈥檚 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.…
91香蕉视频 Heidelberg data centre is 鈥楨urope鈥檚 biggest printed building鈥 Peri 3D Construction has handed over a printed data centre in Heidelberg, Germany. It calls the 600-sq-m building, named 鈥淲avehouse鈥, Europe鈥檚 biggest printed building so far. Yesterday, it handed the…
91香蕉视频 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 Z眉rich and Austrian printing specialist Incremental3D. The precursor…
91香蕉视频 India proclaims world鈥檚 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鈥檚 and the…
91香蕉视频 $1m prize for 鈥渕ost important architectural competition in history鈥 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…
91香蕉视频 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鈥檚 northern Al Awir 1…
91香蕉视频 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鈥檚 British International Investment (BII) agency. 14Trees says…
91香蕉视频 Europe to get first printed football clubhouse Peri 3D Construction is set to create Europe鈥檚 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…
91香蕉视频 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…