Additive Manufacturing and the Construction Industry

Chougan, M; Al-Kheetan, MJ; Ghaffar, SH; Lynn, T; Rosati, P; Kassem, M; Krinidis, S; Kennedy, J

Additive Manufacturing and the Construction Industry

2023

Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Additive manufacturing (AM), including 3D printing, has the potential to transform the construction industry. AM allows the construction industry to use complex and innovative geometries to build an object, building block, wall, or frame from a computer model. As such, it has potential opportunities for the construction industry and specific applications in the deep renovation process. While AM can provide significant benefits in the deep renovation process, it is not without its own environmental footprint and barriers. In this chapter, AM is defined, and the main materials used within the construction industry are outlined. This chapter also explores the benefits and challenges of implementing AM within the construction industry before concluding with a discussion of the future areas of development for AM in construction.

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Brunel University London BRIEF award: Additive Manufacturing Technology in Construction (AMTC); 10.3030/101029471 European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (H2020-EU) under grant: Digital fabrication and integration of Material reuse for environmentally friendly cementitious composite building blocks; European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme through the RINNO project (https://rinno-h2020.eu/) under Grant Agreement 892071, and the Irish Institute of Digital Business.

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Bibliographic information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Other Subjects

Additive manufacturing; Construction industry; 3d concrete printing; 3d printing technology

Language

English

Format

97 - 109

License

Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Rights and permissions: Open Access. This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder., https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, The Author(s)

ISBN

978-3-031-32308-9, 978-3-031-32309-6

ISSN

2662-1282, 2662-1290

Type

Book Chapter

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