ICON Technology, Inc.
3D Printing
ICON develops innovative construction technologies aimed at revolutionizing building practices for both Earth and space habitats. Utilizing advanced materials like low-carbon concrete and automated systems such as robotic construction, ICON's solutions cater to the increasing demand for sustainable and efficient construction methods in challenging environments.
Founded: 2017
Jason Ballard Co-Founder and CEO |
Alexander Le Roux Co-Founder and CTO |
Graeme Waitzkin COO |
Tom vonReichbauer CFO |
The 3D-printing construction company partnered with Camp Mabry to bring fresh buildings to the home of the Texas National Guard and the Texas State Guard.
It looks like any other 3D printer - except it's the size of a crane and is, layer by layer, building a hotel in the Texan desert. El Cosmico, an existing hotel and campground on the outskirts of the city of Marfa, is expanding. It is building 43 new hotel units and 18 residential homes over 60 acres (24 hectares) - all with a 3D printer.
ICON's new 3D-printed homes in Wimberley Springs offer high thermal performance and energy efficiency.
Jason Ballard, CEO and co-founder of Austin-based construction startup Icon, envisions a future where the homebuilding process, powered by robots and artificial intelligence, could cost half of what it does today, while producing more dignified, sustainable homes.
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BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group has joined a series of investors and partnered up with ICON, in order to push forward the use of 3D printing robotics to deliver dignified, resilient homes around the world.
Texas-based construction firm ICON has partnered with the U.S. government-backed Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), to demonstrate the military applications of 3D printing at the Camp Pendleton Marine base.
ICON, known for 3D printing homes and communities in Mexico and central Texas, has been prototyping various structures with DIU (the Defense Innovation Unit) and USMC utilizing the 3D technology.
Icon—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—has built a 3D printer so large it can print the walls of a house in 24 hours.
Icon is printing full houses to give Austin’s homeless a real home to live in.
Check out these 7 examples of tiny 3D printed houses from around the world.
A giant 3D printer is currently squeezing out new homes in rural Mexico. Each one takes 24 hours and lets local families upgrade from a shack to a two-bedroom house. Could this be part of the global housing solution?
The journey of faith and hard work that led Jason Ballard to his fascinating startup, Icon.
An interview with Brett Hagler, Founder of New Story, the housing start-up that is making waves with its 3D house printing technology.
ICON, a high-profile Austin startup that has developed industrial scale 3D printers, is taking on its biggest project yet — and it’s one that’s poised to help the greater Austin community.
3D-printing has revolutionized manufacturing, but changing an industry that still clings to sticks and nails might be harder.
Fuseproject, a design studio based in San Francisco, has revealed details regarding its collaborative project with New Story, a non-profit organization fighting homelessness, and ICON, a Texas-based construction technologies company, to 3D print houses in Latin America.
An entire community is being built this summer!
Icon's Vulcan I 3-D printer built its first house in March 2018. For the one-year anniversary, Icon announces the Vulcan II printer, which it says can build new homes in under 24 hours.
ICON, an Austin, Texas startup known for its low-cost construction 3D printing technology, has introduced the next generation of its 3D printer, the Vulcan II.
The latest iteration of New Story’s home can be printed in a single day–and is being designed by Yves Behar’s Fuseproject. Soon, they’ll start going up in Latin America.
A Texas startup says it will be able to use a 3-D printer to churn out a concrete house within days by year-end, a technology that has the potential to help solve housing shortages but faces regulatory and technical hurdles.
From Washington D.C. all the way to an East Austin backyard...H.U.D. Secretary Dr. Ben Carson toured construction tech company Icon's prototype home Thursday morning.
An Austin company wants to be the first in the country to sell a 3D printed house to the public. It's also partnered with a San Francisco company to develop the first leasable, permitted 3D home system.
From bridges to cars, 3D printing proved this year that it’s still relevant and exciting.