Affordable housing will prove critical to sheltering people around the world. And now the price to build a home is coming down. At SXSW on Sunday, an Austin, Texas-based startup called ICON unveiled ...

Most houses built in the US today are platform construction: skinny two-by-fours are stacked and layered to create walls with studs. Each floor is framed on top of the other. It is fast, relatively ...

Kristen Henry is one of the youngest people in the world to 3D print a house. Less than a year after she graduated from college, and became a mechanical engineer, she operated a printer that built a ...

3D printing is taking off as a viable construction technology. The first several homes and buildings were all made of some sort of cement mixture (the exact composition of which varies by company), ...

Caterpillar, the world’s largest manufacturer of construction equipment, is starting to support research on the “Contour Crafting” automated construction system that its creator believes will one day ...