Welcome to the Institute of Construction and Building Materials
At the Institute of Construction and Building Materials (WiB), various building materials are researched and further developed. Basic and in-depth knowledge is imparted in teaching and advanced training courses.
Welcome to the Institute of Construction and Building Materials (WiB) of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Our main objective is to develop and find answers to the main questions and challenges facing us. We aim to tackle the big questions of energy reduction in construction, reuse of raw materials, and minimization of CO2 emissions. These current and upcoming themes tighten the boundary conditions within which we have to develop our future construction materials.
Education and research give us the opportunity to develop advanced innovations that can be judged, implemented and used by the industry. A strong cooperation between industry and researchers is therefore indispensable. As a whole with students, researchers and fellow professorships we work in many interdisciplinary fields to view the topical problems in their entirety.
The potential for promising research lies more and more in finding scientific solutions and furthering use of advanced technology. The scale is shifting from the macro to micro and nano scales. Numerical modelling, computational methods in general and top notch experimental equipment aid us to find quantifiable solutions for different tasks such as service life behavior of sustainable materials, development of environmentally friendly and sustainable binders. New Research initiatives such as self healing concretes or bio-inspired material developments will help in furthering the advance in building and construction materials.
Now new on our website: The multimedia page
On our multimedia page you can now find videos on the production and testing of fresh and hardened concrete as well as other videos from our institute.
News from the Institute for Construction and Building Materials
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New article available on the Journal of Cleaner Production
2022/08/05
Researchers Agustin Laveglia and Luciano Sambataro published a new article in the Journal of Cleaner Production on the topic of the LCA of hydrated lime.
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Picture: WiB: Kira Weise, Marc ZeitlerWhat is the daily work routine of a quality manager in cement production like?
2022/07/26
As part of HDA's “Student E-Learning Experts” program, our project to create short films on job profiles in the field of building materials was funded. In our third video, we present the job description of a quality manager in cement production. The video also offers an exciting insight into laboratory automation at HeidelbergCement's Lengfurt plant.
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Bild: WiB, Kira Weise, Rick RieckWie sieht der Arbeitsalltag einer/s Mitarbeiters/in im Bereich der Überwachung und Zertifizierung aus?
2022/05/19
Unser zweites Video zur Vorstellung von Berufsbildern im Bereich Werkstoffe im Bauwesen ist fertig!
Im Rahmen des Programms „Studentische E-Learning Experten“ der HDA wird unser Vorhaben zur Erstellung von Kurzfilmen zu Berufsbildern im Bereich Werkstoffe im Bauwesen gefördert. In unserem zweiten Video stellen wir das Berufsbild von Mitarbeitern und Mitarbeiterinnen im Bereich der Überwachung und Zertifizierung mineralischer Baustoffe vor. Das Video beschreibt zudem auch die Vorgehensweise einer Fremdüberwachung in einem Transportbetonwerk als wesentlichen Bestandteil dieses Tätigkeitsfeldes.
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Picture: WiB, Kira Weise, Marc ZeitlerOur two instructional videos on the production of precast concrete elements and ready-mix concrete are ready!
2022/04/14
The two videos from concrete practice complete our instructional video collection of the event "Construction and Building Materials".
As part of the HDA's “Student E-Learning Experts” program, our project to create instructional videos for the course “Materials in Civil Engineering” was funded. The last two videos from concrete practice now complete our collection of short explanatory videos on various test methods of fresh and hardened concrete properties, among other things, and successfully conclude our e-learning project.
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Picture: Sehring Beton GmbH & Co. KGDesign of durable and pumpable metakaolin-modified ready-mixed concrete for cast-in-situ piles
2021/11/08
The cement and concrete industry has already been facing considerable problems with dwindling raw materials for many years. In the long term, a further reduction in the availability of fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag can be expected as a result of the imminent energy transition and the decline in steel production.
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NRG-STORAGE Project Meeting
2021/10/25
Inspection of the construction site of the NRG-STORAE demonstration buildings in Bulgaria
The coordinator team of the Institute of Construction and Building Materials of TU Darmstadt for the H2020 EU project “NRG-STORAGE” [1,2] and the company Röser Ingenieurbeton walk the construction site of the demonstration buildings in Bulgaria. The shell construction has already been completed. Now the application of the energy-intelligent building envelope and the interior finishing including the monitoring system will follow.
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New cooperative research project Min-Loop
2021/06/17
The Institute of Building and Construction Materials is starting a new cooperative research project funded by the Ptj.
As part of the funding measure from the BMBF “REMIN – Ressource Efficient Recycling Management – Construction and Mineral Material Cycles” the WiB and its partners started the project by the name of “Substitution of polysterene-based rigid foams with cement-bound mineral foam made from recycled crushed concrete sand in sandwich hybrid ceilings for purely mineral material cycles in building construction”.
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SUBLime European Training Network
2021/03/31
Two PhD Researchers (ESR) work at WiB team to craft the future of lime mortars/plasters in new construction and conservation of the built heritage.
