UF’s new BOD3 printer can build homes, sea walls and careers

In Featured, NewsBy Dave SchlenkerStory originally published on UF News

After a journey from Denmark, the primary components of the BOD3 3D construction arrived Friday at the University of Florida’s East Campus. (Photo by Dave Schlenker)

One of the country’s largest and most-advanced 3D construction printers – as in a printer that makes homes – has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived at the University of Florida.   

Manufactured by COBOD International in Denmark, the two-story printer was shipped in pieces to the Port of Savannah in Georgia earlier this month. It cleared U.S. Customs and pulled into UF’s East Campus in two semi-trucks Friday morning. It eventually will live in “The Pit” (Weil Hall Structures and Materials Lab), a large industrial space in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering on the main campus.   

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