Nights are getting longer, weather outside is getting colder, and the year is coming to its end to make place for 2025. And what a year it was! We’re grateful for all our partners around the world, helping us deliver sustainable impact and improve construction one layer at a time. This year, our partners and us have built homes, fixed up local marine environments, built a skatepark… With partners in every corner of the world, it would be impossible to list every accomplishment the CyBe Community achieved this year. Instead, we’ve created a recap to highlight some of the amazing things that happened in the last 12 months. Enjoy 2024 in a nutshell!
Affordable Housing
To kick off a year of great accomplishments, our Texas-based partner Hive3D demonstrated our 3D printing technology’s capability of providing affordable housing. The five homes of their “Las Casitas” project in Round Top were delivered at around $100 per square feet – 15% below market comparables. To expand on their success, our partner invested in more CyBe technology. Right now, they’re using their new equipment to finish up another affordable housing project in Red Rock, and are already preparing for a next one in Marfa!
First Living Seawall Installed
Following closely after our Texas friends’ achievement, our partner Kind Designs from Miami accomplished the installation of the world’s first 3D printed seawall. Their Living Seawalls protect the coast from sea-level rise while improving local marine ecosystems. Leveraging our technology, they can print the seawalls in one hour, as opposed to 24 hours for traditional construction. Also offering benefits of affordability and sustainability, our printers are perfect for producing the Living Seawalls. Now having invested in multiple CyBe machines, Kind Designs is placing Living Seawalls all around the Florida coastline.
World’s Largest 3D Printed Skatepark
Cruising into the year’s second quarter, our partner QOROX from New Zealand succesfully delivered the printed elements of the world’s largest 3D printed skatepark: Destination Skatepark. Featured among the elements was also “The Wave”, the world’s largest 3D printed skate sculpture, at 12 meters long and 3 meters high. Printed quickly, affordably, and sustainably, QOROX once more demonstrated the wide and efficient applicability of 3D printing.
Modular Toilet Pods
As a solution to many UK train stations not offering lavatories, our partner ChangeMaker 3D came up with the idea of 3D printed modular toilet pods. The structures can be affordably and sustainably printed off-site in under 5 hours, and assembled at the train station. With up to 60% less carbon emissions, they’re truely answering nature’s call!
Print a Home in 8 Days
Back to the United States. Ohio, to be specific. In an impressive feat by our latest partner, Sustainable Concrete Innovations, they managed to print all 17 wall elements of their 1,300-square-foot building in just eight working days – all the while following our 2-week training program! Now fully trained and equiped, they are more than ready to effectively provide the Midwest with affordable housing.
3D Printed Show Home
In another milestone from our Kiwi friends at QOROX, they worked together with Iconic Construction to build New Zealand’s first 3D printed show home. Reducing cost and carbon emissions in the process, QOROX finished all 36 wall elements in just 22 hours of printing time. After years of experience in traditional construction, Iconic is now leveraging 3D printing technology to deliver projects even more efficiently.
Mutli-story, Modular Building Blocks
And to finish up the year recap: a win from our own facility! In a print demonstrating the capabilities of the CyBe GR, we built a two-story housing model in a half a day. With a print speed of up to 500mm/s, and enhanced affordability and sustainability through material optimization, we’re able to build fully finished housing modules within five days, reducing cost by up to 30% in the process. This way of building is called prefabricated, prefinished volumetric construction (PPVC). With this off-site, factory setting printing, we can provide the ideal building conditions to offer improved efficiency, quality, sustainability, and resource management.