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14Trees 3D printed 10 houses in Kenya, averaging one house per week
On December 21st, 2021, 14Trees, the joint venture between CDC Group and construction company Holcim, announced the launch of “52 house Mvule Gardens”, described as the largest 3D printed affordable housing project in Africa – in...
GE Renewable Energy opens new 3D printing facility to advance research on concrete 3D printing for wind turbines
It’s a good time for GE Renewable Energy that has just opened a new 3D printing facility that aims to advance research on how to 3D print the concrete base of towers used in...
Next country after Malawi to benefit from construction 3D printing in Africa is Kenya
On the heels of the 3D printed school built in Malawi, 14Trees, the joint venture between CDC Group and construction company Holcim, announced another housing project in Africa.
Named “52 house Mvule Gardens”, the project will...
The “World’s Largest Sand Binder Jetting 3D Printer” to streamline production for Offshore Wind Turbines
A collaboration between GE Renewable Energy, Fraunhofer IGCV, and voxeljet AG
While onshore wind turbines seem to be appealing for construction 3D printing, offshore wind turbines seem to have found in Sand Binder Jetting 3D...
COBOD on Construction 3D printing methods and the fabrication process of wind turbines
Early construction 3D printing development and research occurred in 1995. In the 2000s, the technology was already gaining momentum around the world. However, in Europe, professionals have started taking it seriously when the first...
3D Printed Concrete Bridge Has been Built in Italy without mortar
ETH Zurich and Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE), have worked in collaboration with incremental3D (in3D), for the development of a 3D printed concrete bridge.
Named Striatus, the development of this project has...
COBOD 3D prints its first building in the USA, Florida after several accomplishments in Europe, Africa and India.
Printed Farms is a Florida based start-up, which has just completed the 3D printing of the first 3D printed building in Florida, a 71 m2 (784 sqf) storage unit, using a giant BOD2 printer...
14Trees leverages 3D Printing to meet Africa’s demand for low-carbon housing and schools (starting in Malawi)
Affordable and low-carbon housing and schools
Construction 3D Printing has often been described as one of manufacturing processes that could meet the demand for affordable housing around the world. Even though, we are still far...
A 3D printing hackathon to reinvent the building industry
LafargeHolcim and Witteveen + Bos have launched a 3D printing hackathon to reinvent the building industry.
Witteveen+Bos is an engineering and consultancy firm that provides services in the sectors water, infrastructure, the environment and construction....
XtreeE to design and build a 3D-printed concrete footbridge in Paris
In anticipation of the 2024 Olympic Games, Plaine Commune Grand Paris has awarded the Freyssinet / Lavigne & Cheron Architects / Quadric / XtreeE / LafargeHolcim consortium the design-build of a 40-meter pedestrian footbridge...