{"id":35465,"date":"2024-09-23T14:29:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/newengineer\/?p=35465"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:54:15","slug":"ufs-new-bod3-printer-can-build-homes-sea-walls-and-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/magazine\/2025issue\/safer-homes-communities\/ufs-new-bod3-printer-can-build-homes-sea-walls-and-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"UF\u2019s new BOD3 printer can build homes, sea walls and careers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the country\u2019s largest and most-advanced 3D construction printers \u2013 as in a printer that makes homes \u2013 has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived at the University of Florida.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s East Campus in two semi-trucks Friday morning. It eventually will live in \u201cThe Pit\u201d (Weil Hall Structures and Materials Lab), a large industrial space in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering on the main campus.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2024\/09\/3d-printer-arrives-at-uf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read full story at news.ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the country\u2019s largest and most-advanced 3D construction printers \u2013 as in a printer that makes homes \u2013 has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived at the University of Florida.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":35467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[433,55,57,61,533],"tags":[363],"class_list":["post-35465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025issue","category-magazine","category-stories","category-research-innovation","category-safer-homes-communities","tag-sustainable-engineering"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37401,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35465\/revisions\/37401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}