This winter, The Ohio State University’s Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME), which is one of the country’s largest additive research groups, received a COBOD BOD2 3D construction printer from Pantheon Innovative Builders as part of a multidisciplinary research cooperation. I recently had the chance to see it in action, as the CDME hosted a Construction 3D Printing Open House on campus. Nearly 300 people came to see the massive system in a former horse arena at OSU’s Plumb Hall. It was impressive for a number of reasons, starting with the fact that I’ve only ever seen a concrete construction printer setup like that outside, and it was smaller than the BOD2.
“It takes a team to do something like this,” said Ben DiMarco, Additive Manufacturing Technologist at CDME. “Each one of these footers below the printer weighs 4,000 lbs. How do you set up the…
