AUSTIN (KXAN) — Local 3D-printed construction company, ICON unveiled new technology designed to build affordable housing during a South by Southwest event on Tuesday at The Long Center.

Closer to home, Icon hopes its 3D-printing technology can eventually help address a serious housing deficit in the U.S. Ballard's initial career plan had been to become an Episcopal priest.

Texas-based ICON has unveiled Phoenix, a robotic-arm-mounted 3D printer that can create fully-enclosed, multi-storey structures from a low-carbon mixture, at SXSW. ICON revealed the demountable ...