PPB July 2018

Source: BergerABAM Eng i nee r i ng And Cons t ruc t i on Against The Wind The California Energy Commission awarded a $1.25 million grant to RCAM Technologies in December 2017 to produce concrete turbine towers on- site using 3D printer technology. RCAM predicts that if the effort is successful, larger turbines can be produced without additional costs related to logistics and delivery, leading to greater wind energy production and the ability to reach new efficiency targets sooner. Serving An Award-Winning Tennis Facility HKS Architects, BBM Structural Engineers, Tavistock Development and DPR Construction received a Gold Building Team Award from Building Design+Construction for the United States Tennis Association National Campus. The 65-acre campus features red clay tennis courts constructed from more than 200 tons of clay imported from Italy in five-pound bags—more than 80,000 bags of clay were used to create just six courts. From The Ground Up Europe’s first 3-D printed building was built in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2017 by 3Dprinthuset, a Danish firm that had participated in a government- funded research project that consisted of visiting more than 30 3D construction printing sites around the world. The 50-square-meter office building is located in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn district. 3D Construction The New Trend In Building Efficiency 42 | JULY 2018 | GROW Jen Alexander is associate editor of PPB.