Over the last few years, 3D-printed housing has been gaining attention worldwide as a faster, cheaper & sustainable way to ...
Leading 3D printing firm Icon has revealed an ambitious competition that aims to revolutionize affordable housing. Named Initiative 99, it will solicit designs for 3D-printed homes that can be ...
Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...
Roadblocks stand between startups and their promise of cheaper and quickly built 3D printed homes. Construction-tech startup Icon's new collection of products could alleviate some of these issues.
Few industries have seen the fast-paced level of innovations like the 3D-printing world. What began as a high-priced device capable of printing a small figurine in 12 or more hours has exploded into ...
Experts estimate around 60% of buildings that will exist in 30 years’ time have yet to be built. This equals constructing a city the size of Stockholm every week until 2050. However, the construction ...
Daniella Glaeze documents her 3D printed home on TikTok, amassing millions of views. Icon and Lennar are building a community of 100 3D printed houses just north of Austin. The homes, made with ...
Anyone in the market for a new home is likely aware that we are in the midst of a housing affordability crisis. According to the Real House Price Index (RHPI), housing affordability is the worst it ...
A new 3D construction printer from Icon can whip out two-story concrete buildings faster and cheaper than its previous Vulcan printer. It has already been used to build a 27-ft-high structure called ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston is at the forefront of a new architectural era that some say will make your next home stronger, faster to build, and less expensive. A team of Cornell University ...
Can you imagine being able to prototype a piece of furniture at the touch of a button and testing it in just a few hours? This might become a common practice sooner than we may think. Fueled by ...