University of Maine using giant 3D printer to build homes

(23 Apr 2024)
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Orono, Maine - 23 April 2024
1. Wide of University of Maine's first 3D printed home
2. Unveiling of new 3D printer
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Habib Dagher, Director of the Advanced Structures, University of Maine:
"This printer can print parts 96 feet long, 32 feet wide and 18 feet high, big enough to get out this garage door and big enough to be able to get it on the truck and take it out there."
4. Various of 3D printer
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Habib Dagher, Director of the Advanced Structures, University of Maine:
"And it's not just a 3D printer. It's really it's a manufacturing system that allows us to do 3D printing and machining and continuous state playoff and robotic arm operations all in one machine."
6. Various of 3D printer, thermoplastic polymers
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Habib Dagher, Director of the Advanced Structures, University of Maine:
"The state of Maine needs over 80,000 low income homes by 2030. We don't have enough people to build them even if you had the money to do it. So that this technology is going to be used next under secretary to actually print a neighborhood for the homeless here in the Bangor area over the next couple years."
8. Various of University of Maine
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Habib Dagher, Director of the Advanced Structures, University of Maine:
"We're going to be using this printer to develop technologies, fail fast, fail cheap and then use what
we learned here to build the factory of the future."
10. Medium of group touring new 3D printed home
STORYLINE:
The university which claims the world's largest 3D printer developed one even bigger.
A printer unveiled Tuesday at the University of Maine is four times larger than the current one and is capable of printing ever mightier objects.
That includes scaling up its bio-based 3D-printed home technology to eventually demonstrate how printed neighborhoods can offer affordable housing.
The thermoplastic polymer printer was dubbed the “Factory of the Future 1.0.”
It can print objects 96 feet long by 32 feet wide by 18 feet high. And it has a voracious appetite, consuming as much as 500 pounds of raw material per hour.
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