Tampa finishes 3D home
Hillsborough County just completed Tampa’s first 3D‑printed house — a three‑bed, two‑bath built via a robotic arm that prints concrete layers, presented as a faster, lower‑cost tool to tackle Florida’s housing crunch (three‑bed, two‑bath; project reported March 26) (995qyk.com).
Work underway at an infill lot listed as 4426 Lurline Circle in East Tampa; a progress video posted March 5 shows active on-site printing and structural walls taking shape. (youtube.com) The Corporation to Develop Communities (CDC) of Tampa is leading the build as part of an 18-house East Tampa neighborhood on Knoll Pine Way that will include four homes using large-scale additive construction. ( ) CDC of Tampa received a $500,000 county contribution to buy construction printers and is using a separate $2.4 million county grant for the broader housing development. ( ) The nonprofit says it purchased two robotic‑arm style printers from a Florida manufacturer and the system runs on a 20‑foot rail that moves a pump-and-nozzle assembly to lay material precisely. (cdcoftampa.org) Project leaders say a single house’s structural walls can be printed in roughly 15–18 hours of machine time, and CDC notes the Lurline Circle build replaces a nearby property damaged by fire. ( ) County officials donated land and committed “millions” toward this cluster and CDC says the East Tampa effort is one piece of a plan that could top 150 new units across the region, including a Seffner project aimed at housing disabled veterans. (wild941.com)
