College Scholar Helps Construct COBOD Building 3D Printers Across the World Throughout Internship – 3DPrint.com

July 27, 2025

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Lately, Denmark-based additive building (AC) firm COBOD Worldwide introduced that it had put in its BODXL system in Doha, Qatar. The huge 50 x 30 x 15m machine—in regards to the measurement of a Boeing 737 hangar and certain the most important building 3D printer on the planet—was deployed by UCC Holding and the Qatari Public Works Authority (Ashghal) to construct the primary of two 3D printed public faculties. The setup for this big system is just not simple or fast, as Northeastern College scholar Fernando Escobar can inform you. He just lately completed an internship with COBOD, and was on-site in Doha to assist assemble the BODXL.

A rising fifth-year scholar on the Massachusetts analysis college, Escobar has accomplished three co-ops throughout his time in school. Majoring in mechanical engineering and historical past, his first co-op was at Vicarious Surgical Inc., the place he had the possibility to see how healthcare is being reshaped via the assistance of surgical robots. Throughout his ACS Industries internship, he labored with a crew of full-time engineers to refine hydrogen for vitality storage. However Escobar says that his co-op with COBOD, although difficult, may need been his favourite.

Fernando Escobar was a discipline engineering intern at COBOD Worldwide.

Serving as a discipline engineering intern for the AC chief, Escobar had the superb alternative to journey the world over a interval of a number of months, visiting elements of the Center East and Europe to assist COBOD clients arrange their large-scale building 3D printers, like the large BODXL and the favored, however barely smaller, BOD2. The latter has been used to assemble the whole lot from social housing and information facilities to chemical storage services and even a Starbucks.

Just some quick months in the past, Escobar was with the COBOD crew in Qatar, serving to to assemble the enormous BODXL so it might begin constructing the varsity. There’s nothing plug-and-play about these printers—the robotic gantry system has a modular design, so it will possibly match the particular wants of every buyer. As a way to guarantee optimum implementation and efficiency, every COBOD machine, which is ready to extrude supplies at as much as 500 millimeters per second, requires a number of weeks of on-site coaching, meeting, and calibration.

“The primary week is about organising the machine, placing the whole lot in the proper place and ensuring the machine begins shifting round. The second week is heavier on the supplies facet,” Escobar defined.

As a part of his co-op, Fernando Escobar was in Qatar this Could serving to arrange a big 3D printers that shall be used to construct faculties.

You would possibly assume this might be intimidating, however increasingly usually lately, school college students are studying about this expertise of their programs. Plus, having labored as a luxurious automotive mechanic when he was rising up, Escobar has much more of an edge. He additionally says that every one of his lessons at Northeastern, however particularly fluid mechanics, have given him what he must succeed.

“I’m not really doing calculus 3 each day at my job, nevertheless it definitely provides you context as to the physics behind why some choices are made. It provides you context and a framework to drawback remedy and perceive how the world works differently than most individuals,” Escobar mentioned.

Along with organising the BODXL in Qatar, Escobar additionally spent two weeks at a buyer website on the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of Morocco, serving to to arrange the BOD2 so it may very well be used to print a home and rental unit constructing.

The extra I hear about college, highschool, and even elementary college students studying about additive in class, the much less I fear about the way forward for our workforce.