Media Mention: ‘3D printed and factory-built homes could help tackle housing crisis’
Mar 26, 2025
Where: AP News, “3D printed and factory-built homes could help tackle housing crisis”
Who: Ali Memari, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of architectural engineering, the Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center
What: Ali Memari, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of architectural engineering, the Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center, was quoted in an article published by AP News. The article features innovative solutions to address the U.S. housing crisis, including modular home manufacturing, 3D-printed homes and using hempcrete, a mixture of hemp and lime used as building material, for wall construction. Memari comments on the challenges facing 3D printing technology for home construction and his research into an innovative hempcrete mixture.
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