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3D Printing is Helping to Shape the Building Industry

Technology creates rapid construction potential.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

A residential and commercial tower under development in Brooklyn that is changing the New York City skyline has its roots in research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The tower’s white precast concrete façade rising from the waterfront site of the former Domino Sugar Factory evokes the form of a sugar crystal – a pattern created from 3D printed molds produced at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL.   When Gate Precast, a member of Precast/Prestressed Co...

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