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Australian construction technology company Luyten 3D has launched the ASCEND A27, described as the “world’s first” tower crane-mounted concrete 3D printer designed to build structures up to 100 m tall.
That claim rests on a structural departure from how concrete 3D printers have worked until now. Conventional systems use gantry frames, which move along fixed horizontal rails and cap out at low-rise heights. The ASCEND swaps that architecture for a tower crane base with a 45 m working radius, allowing a single installation point to cover the footprint of a large building site and follow the structure upward as it rises.
Rapid Deployment and AI-Driven Automation
Getting the machine operational is designed to be fast. Luyten says the crane can be erected and ready within one to two days, a