Dr. Javier Munguia, Editorial Board Member of IJAMD, was an invited speaker at the Engineering Design Show 2026 in Coventry, UK (7–8 October 2026). He presented the talk “WCP – Warwick Concrete 3D Printing: The Journey of a Student-Led, Multi-Year Project at the University of Warwick.”

A brief description: Warwick Concrete Printing (WCP) is a multidisciplinary, student-led initiative launched in 2023 to design, develop, test and refine a concrete 3D printing system from the ground up. Now in its fourth consecutive year, the project has produced an optimised concrete mix design and an open-hardware printing architecture. The talk explored WCP’s journey from initial concept to its current state, highlighting both the technical challenges of developing a concrete 3D printing system and the opportunities created by bringing together students and expertise from different engineering disciplines—for example, asking what happens when a civil engineer is asked to wire and programme a CNC controller, or whether an automotive engineer can carry out a life-cycle assessment of a concrete extrusion system.