To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Chris Parsell started working in the trades at age 16 as a ...

The weather-tight shell finished in days, as opposed to the many weeks required with “site framing.” So all prior efforts to improve building construction are vastly inferior to contour construction ...

Almost everything around us is made automatically: our shoes, our clothes, home appliances and cars – so why not buildings? Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, the Director of the Manufacturing Engineering ...

Contour Crafting just won a major design prize for its ability to 3D print large-scale structures from computer-aided design (CAD) files. Berokh Kohshnevis’ “robotic building construction” system can ...

Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California has won Grand Prize in the NASA Tech Briefs magazine’s “Create the Future” contest for his entry, "Robotic Building Construction by Contour ...