Construction practice is changing. Old workflows, methodologies and practices are being challenged, as offsite, modular and design for manufacture concepts are under development.

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Could 3D printing technology be part of that change?

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As a species, we certainly have our flaws, but we are eminently resourceful at making things. We are natural engineers. When it comes to providing shelters, we have always used the resources around us to construct structures; wood, soil, clay, stone, straw. Our tools evolved, we made axes and chisels from metals, and we further refined and processed our raw building material, carved joints, planed surfaces, and baked bricks.

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We experimented with geometry, built towering pyramids with 2.5 tonne blocks, invented plumbing, heating, glass, built Great Walls visible from space. Humankind, ‘masters of construction’ since 9,000 BC. Not bad for a bunch […]

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