PrinTimber Team Wins Hacking For Homebuilding Competition
University of Idaho architecture graduate students took home a $9,000 dollar prize from Boise Entrepreneur Week’s Hacking for Homebuilding Pitch Competition on October 4, 2023.
The aims of this work were to investigate the printability of high-fraction wood and sodium-silicate composites (WSSC) for additive manufacturing and to develop a screw extrusion-based process to demonstrate this approach for building construction applications. A custom additive manufacturing system was fabricated, and mixtures of 40%–60% wood fiber and 60%–40% sodium silicate were printed. The…
An interdisciplinary project connecting several Auburn University faculty and fellow scientists will address the hard-hitting reality that affordable housing is out of reach for many Americans living in rural areas. The study, which spans the disciplines of engineering, chemistry, forest resources and architecture, also draws strongly upon the expertise of scientists at its partner institution,…
Affordable housing is not a luxury, it’s a basic need. University of Idaho is developing technology to make housing more affordable nationwide by using Idaho wood waste to make one of the most sustainable building construction materials on the market. They’re combining sawdust and other wood byproducts with bio-based glue to create a medium…
Manish Sakhakarmy, a Graduate Research Assistant at Auburn University, placed in the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Oral/Poster Competition for my oral presentation entitled, “Comparative study on pyrolysis of Douglas Fir, Eucalyptus, and Poplar for Novolac production”.
An interdisciplinary project connecting several Auburn University faculty and fellow scientists will address the hard-hitting reality that affordable housing is out of reach for many Americans living in rural areas. But the path of this research may lead to viable solutions that would have seemed futuristic mere years ago: planning advanced manufacturing that helps utilize…
PrinTimber was recently featured in the University of Idaho’s Letter from the President, where U of I President C. Scott Green highlighted the innovative research PrinTimber is involved in. The letter focuses on U of I doctoral student Robert Carne’s robotics experience and his involvement with the project. Congratulations to Carne, PI Michael Maughn, and…