NCCR Digital Fabrication wins Swedish Concrete Award

We are proud to announce that NCCR Digital Fabrication has been given the Swedish Concrete Award 2019. Collecting the Award on behalf of the whole NCCR, Deputy Director Robert Flatt presented "Digital Concrete: Interdisciplinarity, Environment and Large Scale Demonstrators" at the ceremony on 21st November.

In a statement, the Swedish Concrete Society stated "Since its foundation in 2014, the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication has aimed to revolutionise architecture through a seamless combination of digital technologies and physical building processes. Based on inter-organisational cooperation and including an equal opportunities program, over 60 researchers across Switzerland collaborate to develop groundbreaking solutions for the construction industry of tomorrow."

Established in 1985, the Swedish Concrete Award is given biannually to "Recognised experts in the building or civil engineering field who, through their lecture, can convey news and give impetus to the development". This year's award marks the first time that the recipient is an organisation, rather than an individual.

We would like to thank all of our researchers for their work and are happy to see them being recognised.

Some of our recently published work on concrete includes;

DFAB HOUSE (production of bespoke concrete mullions through slip-forming known as Smart Dynamic Casting; a Smart Slab produced using 3D printed sand formwork; and Mesh Mould a robotically produced formwork that allows production of non-standard geometries),

3D printed concrete columns,

Lightweight funicular floor integrated floor system

Hosting the world's first Digital Concrete conference

The knitcrete demonstrator, KnitCandela, a concrete shell with a knitted formwork

Photo Credits:

Clockwise from top left: Matthias Rippmann; KEYSTONE/Christian Beutler; Mariana Popescu; Digital Building Technologies (dbt), ETH Zürich / Andrei Jipa; Roman Keller / NCCR Digital Fabrication; Matthias Rippmann; Axel Crettenand; NCCR Digital Fabrication