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Iowa City-based Alquist 3D is hoping to address the housing shortage facing Johnson County by creating affordable, sustainable and innovative homes using 3D printing technology. Construction is expected to start this summer.
Project partners believe a 3D-printed build in Iowa City would be the first multistory, multiunit residential building printed in North America.
Working with Iowa Central Community College and Alquist 3D, Iowa State University's College of Design will put $2.15 million in grant money toward 3D-printing houses for the small town of Hamburg.
With housing inventory at record lows, multiple entrepreneurs push the technology as printing out a better tomorrow. But can scale be achieved? We explore.