Black Buffalo 3D Wins NAHB-Sponsored Gold Award for Global Innovation at The Nationals
Black Buffalo 3D Corporation has been awarded the gold Global Innovation award at The Nationals, presented by the National Association of Home Builders. The award is in recognition of providing the first 3D-printed construction solution to comply with the International Code Council Evaluation Service’s standards for structural walls, ICC-ES AC509. The NAHB Global Innovation award recognizes the most advanced and cutting-edge original products, services, homes, communities and champions of the building industry worldwide. The recognition of the BB3D construction printing solution is an industry honor only possible thanks to the hard work of its team and its partner on material development, MAPEI Corporation. This year had the largest pool of applicants, with over 70 companies competing for the Gold Award.
Black Buffalo 3D was selected for its commitment to provide code-approved, large-scale 3D concrete printers, ink materials and training to allow builders, developers and contractors to improve upon and supplement traditional building methods with 3D printing (additive manufacturing) for construction. Its achievement of being the first company to meet ICC-ES AC509 criteria provides evidence that structures printed with Black Buffalo NEXCON printers and Planitop 3D mortar/ink can be considered the equivalent of building with CMU block, with the advantage of greater efficiency, design freedom, automation and speed. This is a significant milestone for the future of the construction industry and one of the necessary steps to increase legitimacy among peers in the construction and homebuilding industry.