Research

The Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering impresses with its scientific expertise and variety of methods in the field of civil and environmental engineering.

In view of the effects of climate change, finite resources and urban planning challenges such as the lack of affordable housing and the need for a comprehensive mobility transition, sustainability is at the heart of the Faculty's research activities. Core topics are:

Resource-efficient construction
Alternative building concepts and methods
Building protection
Building information modeling
Automation and digitalization of the construction industry
“Green” concrete
Recycled building materials
Future-oriented infrastructures
Innovative traffic management concepts
Sustainable water management
Resource-efficient wastewater treatment
Environmentally friendly road construction techniques
Numerical simulations as a resource-efficient alternative to physical test setups
...

The research priorities correspond to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

News

New Collaborative Research Center 1683

Under the direction of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Mark, holder of the Chair of Concrete Structures, an interdisciplinary research group is working on the reuse of concrete parts of old buildings as modules for the construction of new building projects in the new SFB 1683 “Interaction Methods for the Modular Reuse of Existing Structures”.

Optimizing the use of heat

Dr. Merita Tafili wants to develop precise simulations of micromechanical processes in the soil in order to better predict the effects of geothermal energy use on the soil and the environment. The German Research Foundation is supporting this project with an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group and around 1.7 million euros.

New Sino-D-A-CH center for smart, civil infrastructures

The Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Tongji University in Shanghai have been cooperating since 1980. Recently, Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. techn. Günther Meschke attended the inauguration of the new Sino-D-A-CH Center for Smart Civil Infrastructure in Shanghai, which the faculty helped to found.

Collaborative Research Center 1683: Interaction Methods for the Modular Reuse of Existing Load-Bearing Structures

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The Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1683 deals with the core idea of reusing concrete parts of old buildings as modules for the construction of new ones in order to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce the amount of construction waste. More than 50 scientists from various disciplines are working together in the SFB.

To the website of the SFB 1683

Further Collaborative Research Projects

Priority Program 2187 - Adaptive Modularized Constructions Made in Flux

The aim of the priority program is to develop basic scientific methods for the production of partially adaptive modules from high-performance concrete in industrial flow production. The modules should have series character and enable rapid construction. Visual individuality of the composite structure shall be preserved, so that scalable, adaptive and over the life cycle alterable modules and suitable production concepts are sought.

Collaborative Research Center 837: Interaction Modeling in Mechanized Tunneling

As part of the Collaborative Research Center 837, numerical models, computer-aided simulation methods and design concepts are being developed that realistically represent the complex interactions between subsoil, shield machine, support measures, tunnel construction, lining, tunneling and excavation processes as well as construction operations in computational models.

Further current research projects

You can find further research projects on the respective chair websites. Click here for an overview of our chairs and working groups.