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it looks like a scene out of a 

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Hollywood science fiction movie , a 

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building appearing to be building 

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itself . But it's a reality . This 

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construction technique is called 

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additive manufacturing or also three D 

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printing and this particular structure 

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being built on Tyndall Air Force base 

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florida is slated to be the first 

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usable occupied three D printed 

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concrete building on on an active Air 

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Force base in the world . We're 

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actually using it for two purposes . 

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One is , this is the building that 

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supports our robotics range research 

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out here . But the other thing we've 

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done is we've made this to where this 

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could also work for some of our red 

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horse training sites . Engineers of the 

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Air Force installation to mission 

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support centers . Air Force Civil 

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Engineer Center are leading the way 

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with the research on this project . 

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We're getting a good appreciation for 

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seeing like how many folks take 

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logistics , things like that kind of 

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see potentially if it could be 

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something we could use in the field in 

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the future . The field test of this 

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technology with an industry partner is 

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one of the ways the A . F . I . M . S . 

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C . Is leaning forward to meet the Air 

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Force Chief of Staff's accelerate 

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change or lose initiative . The work is 

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a partnership between our team here in 

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the readiness directorate by R and D . 

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Team would be a great opportunity for 

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them partnering with icon and also it 

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helps us recover some of the 

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infrastructure we lost from the 

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hurricane . It does meet the new 

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unified facility criteria which is the 

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military building code for three D . 

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Printed structures . But it also this 

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is the first three D . Printed building 

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that we know of , especially in the 

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military , that actually meets what's 

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called the Miami Dade wind code 

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standards . Three D printing has been 

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around for a few decades , but in a 

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smaller lab scale off and using polymer 

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or plastic and even metal or other 

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materials . However , using the same 

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concept , this larger scale three D . 

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Printed concrete building construction 

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is a fairly new technology . There's a 

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lot of creativity in the design that 

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you could do . That might not be 

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possible conventional typical 

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construction some of the shapes in 

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there . They're based on mathematics , 

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binomial polynomial . There could be 

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very specific applications where you 

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might need to tailor the design and 

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shape of the structure for the Air 

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Force installation and Mission Support 

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center . I'm brian gotten