{"id":132748,"date":"2021-12-20T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/iowa-state-university-gets-1-4-million-to-buy-3d-concrete-printer-for-low-cost-homebuilding"},"modified":"2021-12-20T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T18:23:27","slug":"iowa-state-university-gets-1-4-million-to-buy-3d-concrete-printer-for-low-cost-homebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/iowa-state-university-gets-1-4-million-to-buy-3d-concrete-printer-for-low-cost-homebuilding","title":{"rendered":"Iowa State University gets $1.4 million to buy 3D concrete printer for low-cost homebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iowa-state-university-gets-1-4-million-to-buy-3d-concrete-printer-for-low-cost-homebuilding2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iowa\u2019s first 3D-printed home could be ready for its new owners by this time next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Economic Development Authority on Friday approved $1.4 million for the Iowa State University College of Design to purchase a 3D printer capable of producing concrete houses. Its goal is to build a neighborhood of up to 34 3D-printed homes in Hamburg, a southwest Iowa town <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amestrib.com\/story\/news\/2019\/10\/09\/iowa-flooding-2019-missouri-river-buyouts-flood-recovery-fema\/2287374001\/\" target=_blank rel=noopener class=gnt_ar_b_a>recovering from a massive flood two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s director, Debi Durham, said the college also will develop a curriculum for training contractors on 3D printing and new state building codes in order to allow wide use of the technique in Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa\u2019s first 3D-printed home could be ready for its new owners by this time next year. The Iowa Economic Development Authority on Friday approved $1.4 million for the Iowa State University College of Design to purchase a 3D printer capable of producing concrete houses. Its goal is to build a neighborhood of up to 34 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,39,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-economics","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}