The Nome 3DCP Project

Nov 29, 2025

Two completed sides of a 3D Concrete printed house

Nome 3D-Printed Housing Demonstration

The Nome project is XHI’s flagship Alaska demonstration intended to prove feasibility and cost-effectiveness of 3D concrete printing (and supporting systems) under sub-Arctic logistics and code requirements. The goal is a full-scale prototype structure that can inform broader adoption.

Public update: the 3D-printed walls were completed in fall 2025.

Why Nome Matters

Nome is not a lab setting. It is a real community with real constraints: logistics windows, high costs, limited skilled trades, and code/inspection realities that can gate deployment. Validating methods here provides durable proof for other remote and high-cost regions.

Real World Demonstration

The end result of this demonstration is a habitable structure that functions as a test bed for day-to-day livability: comfort, energy efficiency, and lifecycle cost. It’s not just a printed wall sample. The project is executed under practical constraints: permitting and code acceptance, logistics planning, workforce training, and the reality that utilities and inspections can be gating factors.

Proof Artifacts and Reports

This project page is designed to make diligence easier. As results mature, XHI will publish milestone evidence: photos, videos, test data, and documentation that supports replication. Quantitative claims will be presented with clear citations and datasets.

Media

Video from Jarett Gross on YouTube

We have a number of posts about this project across our social media presences, but we also want to specifically highlight a recent video from Jarett Gross (@AutomateConstruction) on YouTube. Jarett visited the Nome job site in fall of 2025, watching as we put up the first 3D-printed house in Alaska. He saw the successes and challenges in the process, including frigid winds and rain as a storm came in from the coast. Check out his video below (and give him a follow @AutomateConstruction on social media!)

Gallery

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A poured slab foundation is fitted with heating elements at a construction site

Heated and Insulated Foundation
A view of concrete printing equipment inside a conex container

Unpacking the Printer
A large orange 3D concrete printer works on the first wall of the project

First Wall Goes Up
Two crew men using a screen device for sifting concrete mix atop a hopper

Improved Screen
A member of the XHab 3D team stands beside the concrete printer and banners for XHI and XHAB 3D

Setting Up
Top-down view of a wall print with insulation

Wall Cutaway
Several workers at a construction site and a large 3D concrete printer printing a corner wall

Printing a Corner Wall
A large orange concrete printer works on an incomplete wall.

Interior Print View
A stormy cold rocky coastline as seen from the shore

Nome Coastline (Storm Incoming)
Man in high-vis vest works at night to cut a window out of a wall.

Night Window Cutout
A man uses power tools to cut into a printed concrete wall

Jeff Cutting Wall
A high-vantage-point photo of an unfinished concrete printed building. The sun is low in an overcast sky behind it.

Interior Wall View
Two man stand in cold weather monitoring a large orange concrete printing device

Printing Another Wall Section in the Cold
Five men at a construction site posing for a picture. One of them is absurdly tall.

The Crew
A large orange 3D concrete printer working under a large plastic covering

Under the Dome
A 3D concrete printer works on a corner wall

Corner shot of walls
A partially printed concrete building at night

Night Walls
Two completed sides of a 3D Concrete printed house

Outside View of Two Sides

Work With Us

Are you building in Alaska or other extreme environments? Do you have a need to reduce costs and speed deployment? Do you have or are you researching materials or automated construction tools and methods? Are you a government, housing authority, builder or even a potential owner of a next generation home or other structure?

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