A major railway operator in Japan is embarking on a journey to build what it says will be the world’s first 3D-printed train station. The new station structure, measuring about 108 square feet ...

The 3-D printed components being placed to build the railway station. In a world first, a railway station in Japan has been built using 3D-printed components in under six hours. Construction firm ...

The replacement, it turned out, could also be a trial for industrial-scale 3D-printing of custom rail shelters. Serendix, a construction firm that previously 3D-printed 538-square-foot homes for ...

Undergirding these dazzling public works is good old Japanese engineering ... innovative new technology like 3D printed buildings. But Japan's success with rail privatization is even more of ...

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a 3D-printed railway station in Japan. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. It was built from four prefabricated parts – a roof ...

The new station’s components were 3D-printed elsewhere and assembled on site last month, in what the railway’s operators say is a world first. It may look more like a shelter than a station ...

"Our goal was to engineer that failure into something more graceful and safer." To do that, the team 3D printed a ceramic structure based on the Miura-ori origami pattern -- which is a way to fold ...

so we felt that the speed was a great advantage,” a railway official said when it was built in March end. The process of printing parts and reinforcing them with concrete took seven days in a ...

Japanese company Serendix has completed what it claims is the world's first 3D-printed railway station in Arida, Japan, which was constructed in the hours between the last and first train services.