{"id":226419,"date":"2025-12-03T16:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/3d-printing-researchers-develop-fast-curing-environmentally-friendly-concrete-substitute"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:02:59","slug":"3d-printing-researchers-develop-fast-curing-environmentally-friendly-concrete-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/3d-printing-researchers-develop-fast-curing-environmentally-friendly-concrete-substitute","title":{"rendered":"3D printing researchers develop fast-curing, environmentally-friendly concrete substitute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printing-researchers-develop-fast-curing-environmentally-friendly-concrete-substitute.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a quick-setting, environmentally friendly alternative to concrete they hope can one day be used to rapidly 3D print homes and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing is already being used to help solve construction challenges such as the global housing crisis that\u2019s emerged as Earth\u2019s population approaches 8.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>But cement, the binding agent in concrete, accounts for about 8% of the planet\u2019s carbon dioxide emissions, and concrete\u2019s curing time\u2014which can be multiple days\u2014and required structural supports can inhibit progress on construction projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a quick-setting, environmentally friendly alternative to concrete they hope can one day be used to rapidly 3D print homes and infrastructure. Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing is already being used to help solve construction challenges such as the global housing crisis that\u2019s emerged as Earth\u2019s population [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226419","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}