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How to print a building: the science behind 3D printing in construction Building sites are going to look a bit different, in the future. Shutterstock. Seyed Ghaffar, Brunel University London It’s often claimed that 3D printing – known in the trade as “additive manufacturing” – will change the way we live. Most recently, a team from Eindhoven University of Technology announced plans to build the “world’s first” habitable 3D printed houses. But it’s one thing to build small, prototype homes in a park – it’s quite another to successfully use additive manufacturing for large scale projects in the construction sector....