Large-scale Bio-based Additive Manufacturing

U.S Secretary of Agriculture visits ASCC’s BioHome3D

Last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, announced a USDA grant aimed at helping private forest landowners adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change, as well as retain working forestlands. This announcement was made at the Investing in America Town Hall at the University of Maine. During his visit, Secretary Vilsack visited […]

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Printing of The Future: ASCC’s BioHome3D Mentioned on CNN

The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) and its Executive Director Dr. Habib Dagher have recently been featured on CNN for BioHome3D housing innovation.  This article emphasizes the importance of 3D Printing in modern society and how its use can be distributed from homes to businesses to bridges with materials you can […]

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BioHome3D highlighted as a sustainable housing solution

The ASCC’s BioHome3D, the world’s largest bio-based 3D printed house printed on the world’s largest 3D printer, was highlighted in articles by MaineBiz, JEC, and the Concord Monitor. These articles, all highlighting the success of the project, are a testament to BioHome3D’s mission: to 3D print affordable housing solutions made out of bio-based wood materials.  […]

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ASCC BioHome3D Wins CAMX Combined Strength Award

The UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center’s (ASCC) BioHome3D won the Combined Strength Award of the 2023 Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX), as featured in an article by Textile World.  “CAMX Award winners were announced with the University of Maine accepting the Combined Strength Award for its BioHome3D — a unique biobased, fully 3D-printed […]

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On its 1-year anniversary, UMaine’s BioHome3D meets sustainability, strength, and durability goals, setting the stage for future development

Orono, Maine — BioHome3D, the first 100% bio-based 3D-printed home in the world, proves to be a viable solution to the growing housing crisis after one year of outdoor testing.  Printed at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), the prototype is poised to set new standards for structural integrity, carbon footprint […]

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ASCC researchers developing a more efficient modeling method for 3D Printing design and manufacturing

An article by Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) researchers Sunil Bhandari and Roberto A. Lopez-Anido has been published in the Proceedings of the American Society for Composites 38th Technical Conference. The publication titled “Efficient residual stress modeling for large-format polymer composite extrusion-based additive manufacturing” researches the development of computer modeling for large-format polymer composite […]

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