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.
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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…
3D Printed Composite Materials Developed from Forestry Waste Used in Affordable Rural Housing
Affordable housing is needed in rural communities, and a team of researchers from Auburn University, in partnership with researchers from the University of Idaho, are developing an innovative solution to the problem by using forestry waste to create composite materials able to be additively manufactured into strong, reliable building components. The bio-resin development as the…
Forest Products Journal: NSF PrinTimber Special Issue Invitation
Recent Advances and New Approaches for Additive Manufacturing Using Wood and Biomaterials Message from the Guest Editors: “Dear Colleagues, The world is experiencing an unprecedented paradigm shift in fabrication using advanced and additive manufacturing. At the forefront of this shift is the utilization of polymeric and metallic materials. By contrast, wood and other bio-mass-based materials have…
Manish Sakhakarmy Places in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition
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”.
PrinTimber featured on Idaho Today
Mallory Bermensolo (Master of Architecture student) was interviewed on Idaho Today regarding the PrinTimber project. The Boise-based show brings statewide recognition to PrinTimber and the team’s research into developing technology to produce sustainable building products made from wood waste. Congratulations to PI Michael Maughn and all the PrinTimber researchers for this well deserved recognition.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil / Mechanical Engineering
The Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Properties Laboratory and the Agriculture Mechanics Laboratory seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow with engineering skills that can be applied to analyze 3D printed bio-based composites. We seek engineers who are good at communicating across disciplines, and who see themselves thriving in a highly collaborative environment. The successful candidates will…