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The world's largest 3D printer is building cozy homes from wood
The University of Maine is swapping concrete for wood materials to print houses using what it calls the largest polymer 3D printer in the world.
We also have an aging population … so there’s less and less people who are electricians, plumbers, or builders,” Habib Dagher, the executive director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), told CNN via video call. In late 2022, the university unveiled the “BioHome3D,” a 600-square-foot single-family unit which it says is the world’s first 100% bio-based 3D-printed home, built from local wood fiber and bio-resin materials. Thousands of people have toured the prototype on the university’s Orono, Maine campus, and Dagher says it’s a rare occurrence when a visitor doesn’t ask, “’When can I have one?’”
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