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Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) teamed up with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to design and build the world’s largest 3-D-printed polymer building. The single-room structure was conceived as part of AMIE, or the Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy demonstration project, an effort between government and industry leaders to build and operate energy-saving structures, according to a SOM release.