HUD looks to UMaine for 3D-printed homes [Video]

ORONO, Maine — The affordable housing shortage can be felt throughout the country, and that’s no different here in Maine. 

“We haven’t invested in really building up our housing stock for the last 30 years,” HUD Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Inter-Governmental Relations Dr. Kimberly McClain said.

Hoping to address this, members of the department of Housing and Urban Development and the University of Maine are working together to come up with an innovative solution that involves the world’s largest 3D printer.

“We’re all about building new technologies that can solve problems that really matter here in the state of Maine in particular,” UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy said.

Nearly two years ago, the university’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center unveiled BioHome3D, the first completely bio-based 3D printed home.

“We’ve looked at how it’s …