American technology company Snaptrude is making its flagship building design tool free for architecture students across the ...

In the ever-changing world of design and construction, the tools at architects’ disposal have remained the same for decades. With its ability to deeply understand how architects design, Snaptrude has ...

Just as Adobe strove to make its PDF file format the industry standard for sharing documents and forms, so now is the company aggressively trying to make PDF the standard for CAD and 3D file-sharing.

The idea of using an “additive” approach in construction is not new. In fact, the first 3D printed building – a small, circular outbuilding made with stacked rings of extruded concrete—was erected in ...

A collaboration between the U.S. Marine Corps and the architects at SOM illustrates why most unlikely use of large-scale 3D printing makes the most sense. We’ve seen 3D-printed houses, ceilings, and ...

A Sacramento developer is using a $1.5 million 3D printer to build fire-resistant, low-waste homes that could reshape how California tackles its housing shortage.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. China’s rapidly growing middle class–and their willingness to spend–in recent years has notoriously driven up property prices in ...

Building with 3D printers has matured rapidly in recent years, as advances in technology and material science allow for grander and more ambitious designs. The potential uses are also increasingly ...