{"id":1322,"date":"2025-11-22T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:40:40","slug":"3-d-printing-researchers-develop-fast-curing-environmentally-friendly-concrete-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/3-d-printing-researchers-develop-fast-curing-environmentally-friendly-concrete-substitute\/","title":{"rendered":"3-D printing researchers develop fast-curing, environmentally friendly concrete substitute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers at\u00a0<strong>Oregon State University<\/strong>\u00a0have developed a\u00a0<strong>fast-curing, environmentally friendly alternative to conventional concrete<\/strong>\u00a0designed specifically for\u00a0<strong>3D printing in construction<\/strong>. The material replaces cement\u2014which is responsible for a significant share of global CO\u2082 emissions\u2014with a mix primarily made from\u00a0<strong>soil, sand, hemp fibers, and biochar<\/strong>, and hardens almost immediately through a chemical process known as\u00a0<strong>frontal polymerization<\/strong>. This allows printed structures to support their own weight during fabrication, enables complex forms such as overhangs, and achieves structural strength suitable for housing within days rather than weeks. The innovation has strong potential for\u00a0<strong>low-carbon construction and rapid deployment<\/strong>, for example in disaster-relief housing, although further work is needed to reduce costs and meet building-code requirements before large-scale adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.oregonstate.edu\/news\/3-d-printing-researchers-develop-fast-curing-environmentally-friendly-concrete-substitute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oregon State University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at\u00a0Oregon State University\u00a0have developed a\u00a0fast-curing, environmentally friendly alternative to conventional concrete\u00a0designed specifically for\u00a03D printing in construction. The material replaces cement\u2014which is responsible for a significant share of global CO\u2082 emissions\u2014with a mix primarily made from\u00a0soil, sand, hemp fibers, and biochar, and hardens almost immediately through a chemical process known as\u00a0frontal polymerization. This allows printed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rethinkconstruction.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}