When the Norwegian Public Roads Administration asked the design-build team of Sweco, PNC, Armando Rito Engenharia and Isachsen to deliver a 643-meter-long concrete box-girder bridge completely in 3D, ...

Three-dimensional printing is leaving the confines of printers and finding its way into the worlds of civil engineering and architecture. One such example comes from MX3D, which is replacing the ...

Because the bridge used fewer resources than typical building projects, it’s believed to be a proof-of-concept for more sustainable construction. “When we started with the concept the bridge was more ...

With concrete accounting for about 8% of global carbon emissions, architecture and construction industries have been hard at work trying to find a material similarly affordable, versatile, strong, and ...

A Dutch partnership involving materials supplier DSM, engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV and supplier of large-scale composite printers CEAD has designed what has been described as the first ...

The plan to 3D-print a bridge in mid-air was always bonkers. How could a technology best known for creating flimsy prototypes and personalized action figures be used for permanent construction ...

A 3D printer that can print "cables" of material in any orientation is set to 3D-print a steel bridge over a canal in Amsterdam. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

Dutch robotics company MX3D has completed the 3D printing of a steel bridge, which will be installed across a canal in Amsterdam next year. First proposed in 2015, the structure has been constructed ...

Innovations are not always met with universal praise. Even when they push boundaries and revolutionize industries, there will always be those who resist change. That was the case in Amsterdam, a city ...

The world’s first-ever steel 3D-printed bridge opened Thursday in Amsterdam. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands pushed a button on a robotic arm that cut a ribbon on the bridge, declaring the 40-foot, ...