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ORNL, UMaine 3D Print Home from Biobased Materials

The home could lead to the printing of thousands more like it.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

On the grounds of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center sits the nation’s first additively manufactured home made entirely from biobased materials – BioHome3D. The 600-square-foot home, the result of a collaboration between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UMaine, is serving as a testbed to see how well the materials perform over time in the Northeastern climate. If environmental analysis, weatherization testing and energy data gathering conducted are favo...

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