Big area additive manufacturing applied to buildings

Kaushik Biswas, Randall Lind, Roderick Jackson, Johney Green, Lucas Tryggestad, Leif Eikevik, Brian Post, Lonnie Love, Andrew Obendorf, Maged Guerguis

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Abstract

Developments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) have enabled acceleration of new technology into the marketplace and can revolutionize the way products are designed and built. In January 2015, ORNL demonstrated how additive manufacturing can be used to drive rapid innovation in vehicles and has now applied BAAM in building envelopes. In partnership with Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM), an innovative building design was developed to incorporate low-cost vacuum-insulated panels into a three-dimensional (3-D) printed 20 × 13 × 10 ft structure. These panels use a new vacuum insulation technology, called modified atmosphere insulation (MAI), which has been shown to achieve the same performance but at significantly reduced cost than traditional vacuum insulation. The radically new approach to integrating new technologies such as vacuum panels into building enclosure design and final assembly is described in this paper. This paper also details the design process and the final 3-D printed design.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings - XIII International Conference
PublisherAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
Pages583-590
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781939200501
StatePublished - 2016
Event13th International Conference on Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings 2016 - Clearwater, United States
Duration: Dec 4 2016Dec 8 2016

Publication series

NameThermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings
Volume2016-December
ISSN (Electronic)2166-8469

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityClearwater
Period12/4/1612/8/16

Funding

The Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) demonstration project is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC. We acknowledge Dr. Martin Keller for his leadership from the original conception of this project through final completion. We also acknowledge Dr. Karma Sawyer for her support, feedback, and direction provided. We acknowledge the many contributors to the success of this demonstration project who range from industry, academia, and government research laboratories. These organizations include: Alcoa/Kawneer, Cincinnati Incorporated, Clayton Homes, DowAksa, EPB of Chattanooga, General Electric

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable EnergyDE-AC05-00OR22725

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