Engineering firm Skanska licenses Loughborough technology for 3D concrete printing.

Skanska, a UK-based engineering firm, is looking to utilise concrete 3D printing technology for construction following the signing of a collaboration agreement with Loughborough University.

The deal will see the company utilise under license technology for the construction industry which the institution has been developing since 2008. Much like its plastic and metal counterparts, a concrete 3D printer can produce objects which cannot be produced by conventional means through the laying down of successive layers of concrete by the printer…