About

BE-AM | Built Environment Additive Manufacturing is a network, annual symposium, and annual exhibition that brings together experts in 3D printing and additive manufacturing from industry, academia, design, and architecture.

Buildings have been 3d printed in Europe, Asia and the USA. The BE-AM | Symposium invites speakers and participants to present current work but also to speculate and extrapolate how AM will change the construction industry in the coming years and decades. At this year’s symposium we want to show and discuss strategies of integrating AM and 3D Printing into larger and more complex process chains within architecture and the building sector. Furthermore BE-AM seeks to cover the full process chain from 3D scanning existing contexts, novel forms of ideation and design methodologies and new materials to fully exploit the newly gained potentials in materializing innovative constructions.

Find out more about BE-AM 2025 below.

Exhibition

Explore our BE-AM booth at Formnext with more than 30 exhibits showcasing the latest research from university and industry

Symposium

Here you will find all relevant information about the symposium regarding program, speakers and more.

Publications

Discover all previous booklets from our symposiums, along with other publications.

For the tenth time, the Symposium 2025 was held both in person at Formext in Frankfurt am Main and streamed live online for viewers around the world. The event took place in November 2025. Sixteen international speakers from academia and industry presented and discussed the latest developments in Additive Manufacturing in architecture and the construction sector.

The event was organized by Prof. Ulrich Knaack, Prof. Oliver Tessmann, Dr.-Ing. Alexander Wolf and Stefanie Appelgrün (M. Sc.)

Further information, impressions and presentations from previous years can be found in our BE-AM | Archive and on our social media channels. All the presentation can be watched on our BE-AM |Youtube-Channel. Find the links below

Who We Are

Oliver Tessmann

Professor
TU Darmstadt, DDU

Ulrich Knaack

Professor
TU Darmstadt, ISM+D

Alexander Wolf

Group Head
TU Darmstadt, Generative Design Lab

Yvonne Machleid

Team Assistant
TU Darmstadt, DDU

Stefanie Appelgrün

Student Assistant
TU Darmstadt, DDU

Malcolm Unger

Student Assistant
TU Darmstadt, DDU