World of Concrete 2026

Another year, another World of Concrete. I am still disappointed by the pricing structure of the show, charging per pound (roughly $1/ pound I hear) of material brought in makes it very expensive to bring a printer plus a few tons of concrete to print at the show. One group with a small printer said their cost to print at the show would have been $60,000. The booths featuring live printing are always some of the biggest attention grabbers. Only 2 groups were printing this year, RIC and Quikrete. Quikrete sponsors the Bricklayer 500 event every year where they bring in many tons of bricks for masons to compete building small wall segments and the winner gets a new truck. It’s possible this large sponsorship gives them a lower cost per pound on freight brought into the show.

I think it would be a good investment for WOC to find a way to subsidize the cost per pound for companies doing impressive demonstrations like live printing concrete.

The good news is there were far more 3DCP companies attending the show and I did my best to get a picture of each one so that you can get the best parts of the show without having to show up yourself.

Geopolymer international, the Vegas locals were my first stop at the show. They are looking forward to an active 2026, splitting their efforts into a dedicated geopolymer materials company and a separate 3dcp company that will work with cementitious mortars as well.

Spacer Robotics was the next booth to catch my eye at the show, they just started this year but that little bot on the floor will be able to tie rebar on site. Looking forward to seeing that in action!

Mapei finally brought printed concrete to the show again, and with it came Peter Cooperman who is very happy to be contributing to the 3DCP industry again.

Caught up with Vertico next, by now you may have noticed the order is time sequential as I try to do with all my content. Here, Volker is showing off their 2k print head. These guys are well known for printing some of the most beautiful parametric designs.

KKrane was one of the most recent site visits of Automate Construction, we got a couple million views on the 40 ft tower, 2 homes, and new HQ all printed by Zach. We also got to see the printer that he built them all with in action. Check it out for yourself!

Here is the Marco 3D team, a few legends from NJ who used a 3D Potter Scara printer to print the biggest single family residential project in America and possibly the world. The owner/GC quoted the project at 3000 sqft for the main house, 1800 sqft garage with 2nd story, 1800 sqft pool house. I got to film the last exterior layers of this project, video coming soon! I will link it here when it’s done in a month or so.

Here we have 2/3 of the Xtreme Habitats Giants, Jeff on the left was the GC for the Alaska Project in Nome that I got to visit. These days short form content pulls in millions of views on every visit I do but this one in particular was the best performing long form youtube video of the year for the Automate Construction channel. I guess people love to see a challenge and printing in Alaska is no easy feat. Their transparency in sharing certain struggles definitely contributed to the success of this video.

Zi from RIC was looking like John Wick, we always appreciate a group that goes the extra mile of printing at the show. In engineering everything always seems to fall apart during the demo like the famous Elon Musk cannonball through the window of the Cybertruck moment. Luckily for RIC catastrophe was avoided but an extremely uneven ‘print surface’ (the parking lot) with 3 inches rise in some places led to a tricky first layer. The pros know printers properly calibrated will eventually self correct as they did here, showing off nice clean parallel layers. Here’s a video of me and Zi putting a printed wall through trial by fire in the desert after last years WOC, soon we are planning to increase the firepower, stay tuned.

Shahaf is a printing company from Israel who developed their own printer developing military style bunkers with printed concrete.

Noah from Sika was hosting an educational event for 3DCP at the show assembling a diverse group of industry experts to share industry insights. There were a couple companies that commandeered the opportunity for self promotion but the educational segment by Sika in the first 45 minutes was very high quality.

MAI is one of the most successful mixer pump brands for 3DCP they apparently sold 60-70 mixer pump systems to the 3DCP industry in 2025.

Alquist 3D was showing off their new printer and excitement for more Walmart projects coming soon. Check out the last one I got to visit!

Vitruvian was showing off some work they did with a Constructions 3D printer in Ohio, I believe these are the first permitted homes successfully printed on a Constructions 3D system in the United States hopefully many more to come.

Kaneshka is the CEO/Architect/Founder of Konstra, a printer manufacturer with some outside the box designs printing this year in California.

Their client K4K bought a printer and will be bringing Kaneshkas designs to life in California, they gave a presentation at the show and I thought I got a picture but I can’t seem to find it, I had intended to include it here.

Constructions 3D was at the show, their Citadel project in France is one of the most ambitious in the industry and now that their printer has done permitted homes in America we should be seeing them more and more.

Twente Additive Manufacturing was at the show with a developer working on a big project that will hopefully implement a tech we saw at their HQ in my video years ago.

I am not the biggest fan of regulations or regulatory organizations but it was very reassuring to meet Shawn Platt, one of the experts on the Sika panel from NIST. My impression of NIST was that they were the old wise men in the high castle far removed from the blue collar work happening on the ground but Shawn is an exception having experience in a large variety of trades (still wise too).

The Printera team was at the show too, they will be moving to a new facility soon. Check out my video with them from earlier in the year.

Quikrete was one the only booths printing at the show. They must have a great dust mitigation system to be printing at the show like that!

Coral 3D had a booth at the show this year (previously known as ice but changed to a friendlier name). They even brought a printer that was dancing around a bit but no actual printing. They do have some incredible projects over in Europe and hopefully some in America coming soon.

Avenco 3D was showing off some very nice printed elements at the show.

I met Robotic Construction Technologies for the first time, they don’t do much media stuff but I think in a year or two they will be ready for a big public feature on Automate Construction (no rush, whenever you’re ready).

Ventures Equipment has a new mixer pump they were showing off at the show.

Gardon Construction was represented at the show, currently in an R&D phase for printing in the elements.

Putzmeister featured Instatiq with a little video demo table at their massive booth of like 20+ giant pump trucks. Just bring the Instatiq next time you already brought 20 others the same size.

And that’s the show! I got to meet a ton of other people too but kept this list to only those who are printing. I do think it was the biggest year for 3DCP attendees even though the number of companies printing was disappointing.

There are some awesome new project coming soon this year and I’m also debuting an in person 3DCP training opportunity in collaboration with a few of your favorite 3DCP companies. The first one will be hosted by 3D Potter in Florida on February 25th and 26th. You will get hands on printing experience and expert lectures around topics like materials, permitting, and 3D modeling. Seats are extremely limited, email me via Jarett@3dprinted.construction to reserve a seat.