Enabling Sustainable Living Spaces
Hardly any area of the construction industry can afford to ignore the issue of sustainability these days. Climate change and resource scarcity, as well as demographic change and denser urban structures, are increasingly influencing the built environment and affecting the entire construction industry. Digitalisation is gaining ground in the construction sector in particular through topics such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and offers enormous potential for the early consideration of sustainability aspects in the planning stage.
Research Areas
The Sustainable Building department deals with the implementation of the concept of sustainability in the construction industry. It develops instruments for assessing the sustainability of construction products, construction systems and industrial processes as well as buildings, thereby addressing the ecological, economic and social dimensions of sustainability from a life cycle perspective. Methodological developments enable the assessment of innovations in the construction sector such as lightweight constructions or materials, modular and temporary construction. Increasing digitalisation offers enormous potential for optimising planning processes. Sustainable construction must also be increasingly considered in an urban planning context. The buildings of the future will be in constant interaction with their environment. Sustainable neighbourhoods are networked systems that no longer consist solely of individual buildings, but are to be seen in a completely new context through their interactions.
Current research projects in the field of sustainable building are focussing on the following topics:
- Life cycle assessment of buildings, neighbourhoods and infrastructure
- Thermal and electrical energy supply concepts and storage concepts
- Life cycle assessment and building information modelling BIM
- Lightweight construction concepts and modular construction
- Evaluation of innovative business models
- Biodiversity and geoinformation systems GIS
- Bionics and architecture
If you would like to find out more about our research work or have questions on individual topics, don't hesitate to contact us.
