The Additive Construction Lab (AddConLab) is a multidisciplinary, collaborative effort between the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Architecture. The goal is to explore the use of additive manufacturing at construction scale. It explores two lines of research related to concrete- and clay-based mixtures and it addresses a multitude of issues concerning the design of materials, printing system, toolpath, structure, and building design. The lab occupies an area of 250 m2 housed at Civil Infrastructure Testing and Evaluation Laboratory (CITEL).
We acknowledge the valuable contribution of the following sponsors:
External sponsors:
NASA
Autodesk, Inc.
Gulf Concrete Technology
Hilti Foundation
Xtreme Habitats Institute
X-Hab 3D
Internal sponsors:
Incentives and Innovations Grants 2016, College of Arts and Architecture
PSIEE-MRI Seed Grant 2016, Institute for the Energy and the Environment, Materials Research Institute
The Raymond A. Bowers Program for Excellence in Design and Construction of the Built Environment
Materials Matter at the Human Level” seed grant 2018, Materials Research Institute
Engine – Engineering for Innovation & Entrepreneurship grant program, College of Engineering, and College of Arts and Architecture