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Jason Ballard

11 days

It would be hard to overstate the love and passion I feel for the El Cosmico project, and it feels like a dream to finally be underway

World's First 3D-printed Hotel and Development | El Cosmico in Marfa,...

EL COSMICO AND ICON ANNOUNCE GROUNDBREAKING OF WORLD’S FIRST 3D-PRINTED HOTEL AND DEVELOPMENT IN MARFA, TEXASICON’s Robotic Construction is Underway for New ...

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2 years

1/4 … New York Times: Not possible for airplanes to fly

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ICON completed a whole home wall system print at $25/sf… about a year+ ahead of schedule. Also our first one with printed in reinforcement.

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To lower the cost of construction: robots To lower the cost of architecture : AI To lower the cost of land: Build New Towns To accelerate abundant, affordable housing: stop restricting supply and subsidizing demand at the same time.

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1 year

Thanks @60Minutes for giving @ICON3DTech a chance to tell our story. The housing of the future must be different than the housing we have known.

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@60Minutes

1 year

“In the future, I think most buildings will be designed by AI, most projects will be run by software, and almost everything will be built by robots. And I don't think that's that far away," says Jason Ballard, CEO and co-founder of a 3D printing company.

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2 years

2/4…. New York Times: Not possible for rockets to fly in space

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2 years

3/4… Study: Not possible to run a four minute mile

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2 years

4/4… Not possible to live on other planets

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1 year

To the Moon 🚀 🌖

60 Minutes

@60Minutes

1 year

NASA and Icon are working together to 3D print with lasers to turn the fine powder on the moon’s surface into landing pads, roads and habitats.

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1 year

Initiative 99 opens today. Help us design homes that can be built for under $99k. Total prize purse of $1 million… winning designs will be built by ICON and showcased as a model for affordable housing.

Initiative 99

Initiative 99, a global architecture competition to reimagine affordable housing

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5 months

First 3D printed neighborhood in the world...

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3 years

Giant things manufactured in Texas: Bellmead locomotive shop in Waco 1923… 180-ton locomotive suspended from the ceiling! ht: @TracesofTexas

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4 years

7.4 magnitude Earthquake struck Mexico ~350 miles from @ICON3DTech construction site. All families and teams are OK and initial assessment shows no damage to the 3D printed homes. @NewStoryCharity @echalemex

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Jason Ballard

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1 year

Dome Dreams

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Jason Ballard

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1 month

Hard Tech / Deep Tech / Bigware in Austin: Aalo @AaloAtomics Base Power @basepowerco Boring Company @boringcompany ICON @ICON3DTech John Deere Innovation @JohnDeere Neuralink @neuralink Saronic @Saronic Tesla @Tesla Who else? What am I missing?

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Jason Ballard

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4 years

It’s happening.

ICON's First 3D Printed Homes for Sale in Austin, Texas

Kansas City developer 3Strands has announced America’s first 3D printed homes for sale, the company’s first multi-home project in Austin, Texas.

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Jason Ballard

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6 months

Introducing CODEX by @ICON3DTech ... a digital catalog of homes ready to be printed/built of all shapes, sizes, and budgets. Architects... we want to put your designs in CODEX and will pay you every time your designs get built.

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Jason Ballard

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11 days

These homes are going to be epic

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6 months

Introducing Phoenix...

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4 months

Sci-Fi, 3D Printed, 2 bed / 2 bath

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1 year

We ride.

SPACE.com

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1 year

Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy

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10 months

Accelerate MoonBase

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ICON is honored to be selected by @darpa as part of the LunA-10 study to accelerate economic vibrancy on the Moon 🌔

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Jason Ballard

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4 years

Welcome.

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1 year

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6 months

This picture looks completely like CGI. 😂

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Jason Ballard

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2 months

@engineers_feed Making AI far less power hungry and more energy efficient. Human brain operates on ~ 20 watts. Obviously doesn’t defy the laws of physics to have human-level intelligence on extremely low power.

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4 years

I spy a Vulcan printing three houses at a time... An @icon3dtech job site as seen from space. 👽

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8 months

Testing

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2 years

To the Moon! I want to thank our partners at @NASA_Marshall , @BIG_Architects , and @coschoolofmines . This project is bigger than any of us, and we do this work on behalf of all of humanity.

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@SPACEdotcom

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Building on the moon: NASA awards Texas company $57 million for lunar construction system

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2 months

Our first time to build homes from CODEX. Designed by @BIG_Architects and @ICON3DTech .

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@ICON3DTech

2 months

ICON homes coming to Wimberley, TX! Explore the homes -->

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Jason Ballard

@JasonDBallard

3 years

In 2018, @sxsw changed my life. Maybe this year it will change your life too… Let’s go!

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Jason Ballard

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11 days

El Cosmico Project is also the first time we will do printed foundations.

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2 years

It’s time to build… on the Moon

NASA, ICON Advance Lunar Construction Technology for Moon Missions - NASA

As NASA plans for long-term human exploration of the Moon under Artemis, new technologies are required to meet the unique challenges of living and working on

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Jason Ballard

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5 months

“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose

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Jason Ballard

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1 year

We ride at dawn.

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@ICON3DTech

1 year

82 homes and structures to date. 100s on the way. #3dprinting #resilient #beautiful #homes

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10 months

@ICON3DTech 3rd party testing for storm, hurricane, tornado, etc. 15lb projectile fired at 100mph. “Damn!”

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5 months

First 3D Printed Neighborhood in the World

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4 years

“I wear a mask to protect the people closest to me.” - Batman

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5 years

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

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10 months

@DARPA selects @ICON3DTech to collaborate on lunar infrastructure. We ride! 🚀🌖

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Jason Ballard

@JasonDBallard

2 years

Is there anything better than doing ambitious, beautiful things for a place you love with friends you admire? @thelizlambert @BjarkeIngels

Can a 3D-Printed Hotel and Residences Bring a New Dimension to Marfa?

Hotelier Liz Lambert has teamed up with Austin-based home builders Icon and architect Bjarke Ingels on a promise to transform the West Texas art town—with affordable housing to boot.

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Jason Ballard

@JasonDBallard

1 year

Reservations open for El Cosmico Sunday Homes in Marfa, TX. --> Own your own little piece of the cosmos and be a part of design history. See you out there among the stars ✨ ✨ ✨ @thelizlambert @BjarkeIngels @ICON3DTech

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Jason Ballard

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5 years

I love the smell of Vulcan in the morning. We ride.

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Jason Ballard

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1 year

"I do believe that asteroid mining will be a real thing, and it will be profitable… it's possible for the necessary technology to be developed within decades.” - @DrPhiltill

Metal asteroid Psyche has a ridiculously high 'value.' But what does that even mean?

The asteroid's absurd "value" could foreshadow future contributions to the budding space mining industry.

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Jason Ballard

@JasonDBallard

1 year

We ride!!!

Lennar

@Lennar

1 year

Take a tour of one of Lennar’s new 3D-printed homes at Wolf Ranch in Austin, TX. These innovative homes, built by Lennar and ICON, feature elevated and energy-efficient design with an eye towards sustainability.

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5 years

This is a downpayment on the future we all want. Proud of the @ICON3DTech team... @Le_Roux_Alex @michaelgoat @matt_gaither +++ all, and grateful to the @NewStoryCharity team... @BrettHagler @laughsee +++ all.

The world's first 3D-printed neighborhood now has its first houses

A giant, 33-foot-long 3D printer recently built the walls of the first homes in the world's first 3D-printed neighborhood.

www.fastcompany.com

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Jason Ballard

@JasonDBallard

4 months

A note from homeowners at the ICON-Lennar Wolf Ranch Project: "We are over the moon with our new ICON home and honored to be a part of the future of housing! Thank you for your work and dedication to providing sustainable sanctuaries for this rapidly changing planet. The peace

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1 year

Calling all architects… a moonshot for affordable housing

ICON prepares to build on the lunar surface. But first, a moonshot at home | CNN

Texas-based ICON is channeling its off-world research into affordable housing and launching a $1 million competition it’s labelling a “call to arms.”

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1 year

@austintexasgov I heard y’all were thinking of hiring McKinsey to streamline construction permits. @ICON3DTech will do it for free… we’ve assembled some of the best minds in construction and technology. No strings attached.

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4 years

Its a tremendous responsibility to work on tech that could reshape housing on Earth & build the Moon Base. Its an honor to be recognized by @TIME . Its a joy to collab with @BjarkeIngels @NASA @NewStoryCharity @mobileloaves @3StrandsDev in service to our deepest beliefs & values.

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Bjarke Ingels on Jason Ballard: “To achieve utopian goals like designing house-sized printers that can spit out homes for people in need, you have to be extremely practical as well as fanatically idealistic. Jason embodies those two extremes” #TIME100Next

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1 year

Let’s go! @ICON3DTech “He said the service wants to expand on experiments like the 3D-printed barracks that the Army opened this year.”

The Pentagon’s innovation arm has a new chief and a new strategy

‘DIU 3.0,’ now under SecDef review, aims to embed teams in the combatant commands.

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@JasonDBallard

6 months

Introducing CarbonX...the new low-carbon print material by @ICON3DTech that makes our way of building the lowest carbon approach to construction at scale

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@JasonDBallard

2 months

Happy National Cowboy Day

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Jason Ballard

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1 year

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. - Leonard Bernstein

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What a time to be alive… civilians doing spacewalks. Tough day for pessimists.

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2 months

I love West Texas

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2 months

Far out west…

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Jason Ballard

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5 years

Is it just me, or is #BabyYoda standing next to a 3D printed house?

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Jason Ballard

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2 years

This year's SXSW was the first time I've had a chance to fully explain why @ICON3DTech exists. In the future, robots will build neighborhoods, towns, and cities, and I think that future is exciting, beautiful, and in accord with our deepest human values.

It's Time to Build | Jason Ballard, ICON CEO | SXSW 2022 Featured Talk

One billion homes. To put a dent in the global housing crisis, we need to build one billion homes in a lifetime and today we simply aren’t solving the proble...

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1 year

New block of print systems needs one less operator (from 4 to 3), can set-up in a day, cuts our cost in half, and delivers homes 30% faster than previous with even higher print quality. Next block ships end of year and will have similar magnitude of improvements.

ICON

@ICON3DTech

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New fleet. #Robots #3Dprinting #homes

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3 years

So far @ICON3DTech we've had to appropriate architectures and designs borrowed from the processes & technologies of conventional construction. With House Zero, we begin the process of inventing new architectures for robotic construction.

House Zero by Icon and Lake|Flato Architects

Icon’s House Zero has a low-waste, biophilic design by Lake|Flato that riffs on the form of classic ranch homes.

www.dwell.com

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The housing of our future must be different than the housing of our past.

A 3D Print-Out You Could Call Home (Published 2019)

Using concrete and giant printers, home building may one day be much faster and cheaper.

www.nytimes.com

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2 years

Very proud and gratified by this. It felt like a risk, but the housing of our future wants be be quite different from the housing we have known. @ICON3DTech @LakeFlato

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Jason Ballard

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2 years

After 5 yrs of nights & weekends while starting a company, raising 4 kids, and trying to be the husband @ballard_jenny deserves, I’m graduating with my Masters today from @coschoolofmines . Special thanks to Dr. Abbud-Madrid and @ChrisSciEng for their vision and guidance.

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Best pound for pound houses built in Austin area this year by a mile... beautiful, energy efficient, comfortable, and historic.

‘A Fleet of Robots Building an Entire Community of Homes’

Built by ICON and Lennar and co-designed by BIG, the Genesis Collection at Wolf Ranch could see first move-ins this fall.

www.builderonline.com

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11 months

Far West Texas

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2 years

I have never seen a sunrise or sunset that I did not think was glorious.

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1 year

Very proud of our partner @Lennar and the entire team at @ICON3DTech . The Wolf Ranch homes will be the most incredible $400k class homes in the entire Austin metro… by a mile. Energy efficiency, resiliency, beauty, comfort, and loads of nice touches like solar and standing seam

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1 year

Attn: designers… @ICON3DTech Homes exceed energy and strength requirements by 2-3x; are inherently fire, wind, water, mold, and insect resistant; and have already survived a magnitude 7.2 earthquake.

As Climate Shocks Multiply, Designers Seek Holy Grail: Disaster-Proof Homes (Published 2023)

The homebuilding industry has been slow to adopt changes that can better protect against extreme weather. Some architects are showing what’s possible.

www.nytimes.com

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11 months

Cosmic Pavilion at the Long Center by @ICON3DTech @BjarkeIngels @BIG_Architects @thelizlambert

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5 years

It’s about to go down at @ICON3DTech

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2 years

Amazing photo from Artemis I. One day this will be the view on the approach to the MoonBase on the return trip from Mars.

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3 years

"America is short more than 5 million homes, and builders can’t make up the difference [if they keep doing things the same way.]"

America is short more than 5 million homes, and builders can't make up the difference

The supply of homes for sale is near a record low, and the gap between supply and demand is widening as homebuilders struggle to keep up.

www.cnbc.com

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2 months

All the Xs now in Texas

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3 years

This project also allowed us to verify 1) wall system sufficient for multi-story loads 2) ability to sell 3DP homes at market rates 3) ability to get mortgage on 3DP home. Big milestones. Plus it was 🔥

Archinect

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ICON's new 3D printed homes in Austin are “safer, more resilient homes” @ICON3DTech

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4 years

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. - Freeman Dyson

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4 years

Let yourself occasionally get a little screwed in exchange for not having to live with your guard up all the time. It’s worth it.

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5 years

3D printing houses is a crazy idea. No amount of planning can make an inherently hard task easy. However, one of my greatest joys is going on the journey with the ones I love the most.

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1 year

Top early-stage technological skills humans should still know, even as we make progress: 1. Starting a fire (outside with no lighter/starter fluid) 2. Fishing 3. Horseback riding 4. Navigating by sun/stars What else?

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Buying a home in the Austin area? ICON homes at Wolf Ranch for sale now... gorgeous architecture, energy efficiency + solar power, three and four bedroom options, designed for living and for life:

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3 years

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Thinking outside the box lately...

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5 years

My first job after college was at a homeless shelter, and most of those folks were at the end of their rope. It's a life very, very few would choose. The stress and anxiety of basic survival are crushing if you don't have shelter. We must do better.

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3 years

Occupy Mars

NASA Artemis

@NASAArtemis

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Mars is calling. ☎️ To help us prepare for missions to the Red Planet, @NASA is working with partners to 3D-print Mars Dune Alpha, a simulated Mars habitat and future home to Mars mission simulation crews at @NASA_Johnson . Learn more:

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@ICON3DTech ’s Wall System has been evaluated and approved by the International [Building] Code Council (ICC). We ride!

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5 years

It takes a printer...

It Takes a Printer … (Published 2019)

Concrete and a very large 3-D printer could revolutionize home-building — and more news about design world events, products and people.

www.nytimes.com

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5 years

Robotic and automated construction methods like large-scale 3D printing will *undoubtedly* be part of the equation for the Moon and Mars. There is a good chance that humanity’s first permanent home on another world is 3D printed.

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1 year

Hopefully someone will come up with a fire resistant form of construction with lower costs…

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6 months

Dignified housing should be abundant, and the housing of our future will be (must be?) different than the housing of our past.

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1 month

@JarettGross Challenge accepted. Thread...

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2 years

Let's go!

NASA Technology

@NASA_Technology

2 years

We awarded @ICON3DTech a #smallbiz contract to continue work on a construction system that could be used on the Moon and Mars! This technology is designed to use local resources to build infrastructure such as landing pads, habitats, roads, and more:

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3 years

More printers coming.

How an 11-Foot-Tall 3-D Printer Is Helping to Create a Community (Published 2021)

Three-dimensional printing can create nearly any object. A partnership in Mexico is putting that theory to the test, building a village for residents living in poverty.

www.nytimes.com

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All of the most incredible things humanity has ever done had 1,000 rational, intelligent, and articulate reasons for not doing them.

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1 year

Halo

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Thanks for being on this wild ride with us @NASA

NASA Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing

@NASAPrize

6 months

They grow up so fast! 🥹 After #SXSW , our team got a sneak peek of @ICON3DTech 's 3D-printed habitats. ICON created the renderings you see here when they competed in Centennial's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. See how ICON is partnering with NASA today >>

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We ride.

The World’s Largest 3D-Printed Neighborhood Is Here

If it can scale, the 3D printing process promises to deliver more energy-efficient and climate-resilient homes that can be built faster, in novel designs and with minimal construction waste.

www.bloomberg.com

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6 months

Full video of @ICON3DTech "Domus Ex Machina" event at @sxsw

ICON's Technology Showcase | DOMUS EX MACHINA at SXSW 2024

We invite you to watch ICON's official SXSW 2024 showcase event, DOMUS EX MACHINA, where we announced a new suite of products and technologies designed to fu...

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@JasonDBallard

6 months

Upgrades based on the first wave of user feedback coming in ~2 weeks. And even more coming ~4 weeks after that.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

@NBCNightlyNews

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An artificial intelligence program called Vitruvius can help people design the plans for new homes and other architectural projects, potentially making the process faster and cheaper. @DianaOlick takes it for a spin.

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10 months

The Starship launch today was clearly a big step forward (and incredibly inspiring). One big advantage SpaceX has over NASA is they can ignore negative press like this and carry on.

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