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Starbucks Opens Its First 3D-Printed Store
What can you build with a 3D printer? Starbucks just printed itself a new store — a drive-through location in the southern tip of Texas. Fast Company says it's a store that "looks more like the future of construction than your average café." Built with layers of concrete piped out b...
Built with layers of concrete piped out by a giant robotic printer, the 1,400-square-foot structure is part of the company's ongoing effort to modernize operations and trim costs... Peri-3D, a German company, used a giant 3D printer to pump out layers of concrete mixture to create the structure. According to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the cost for building the small scale coffee shop was about $1.2 million... Stuart Miller, chairman and co-CEO of Lennar, told CNBC earlier this year that the construction company says their costs and cycle time go down "by half" by adopting 3D-printing.
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