ICON and New Story see the Tabasco community in Mexico as an important step toward their mission to reimagine the approach to homebuilding and construction and make affordable, dignified housing available to people in need around the world.

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Last year, the first permitted 3D printed house in the U.S. went up in Austin, Texas. The house was a buzz-generating proof of concept, a wacky example of the cool things tech can do.

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At the time, its creators — construction technologies startup ICON and housing nonprofit New Story — were raising money to fund construction of homes for low-income families in Latin America. Now, their proof of concept has turned into something much more concrete (pun intended). New Story has announced construction of their first community of 3D-printed homes, going up in Mexico’s southern state of Tabasco. There will be 50 3D-printed […]

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