The designers mimicked the structures in certain bones to increase the surface area of the bridge, which also increased the ...

If you take a cross section of a bone, you realize that bone is quite porous, but there are certain patterns within which the ...

Led by Professor Masoud Akbarzadeh, the Penn group has developed Diamanti, a 3D-printed structural system that uses both geometry and material science to turn concrete into ...

ICC’s Ryan Colker explains how thoughtful code development and evaluation processes are paving the way for safe, scalable adoption of next-generation building technologies.

The process of converting a digital file into a physical object has been around since the late 1980s, but only in the last few years has 3D printing caught on as a modeling tool in the design and ...

PALM BEACH GARDENS — When Bettina Kretz heard about the budding world of 3D printing construction, she felt like she just had to try it out. Soon, she'll live in a house built in that most modern way ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...