Welcome to the Institute of Construction and Building Materials
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.
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Cooperation with BELU Ugandahilfe e.V.
2021/09/10
Cement replacement with miscanthus ash
Our institute is in close exchange with the association BELU Ugandahilfe e.V..Together, we will research whether miscanthus ash can be used as a cement substitute for the production of mortar for building houses in Uganda. A first series of tests shows promising results for this project.
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Picture: WiB: Dr. -Ing. Mohammadreza IzadifarJob advertisement student assistant (m/f/d)
2021/09/10
Multiscale Modeling of Advanced Nano-Reinforced Geopolymer/CNTs Materials
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Stellenausschreibung studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d)
2021/09/07
Im Fachbereich Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften (Institut für Werkstoffe im Bauwesen) ist ab sofort eine Stelle für eine stud. Hilfskraft (w/m/d) zur Unterstützung in der Lehre und Projektmitarbeit zu besetzen.
Zur Verstärkung unseres Teams am WiB suchen wir ab sofort eine studentische Hilfskraft.
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Picture: WiB: Kira Weise, Marc ZeitlerTeaching videos on normative fresh and hardened concrete tests
2021/09/01
Our collection of teaching videos on normative fresh and hardened concrete testing for our course "Materials in Civil Engineering" is now available online!
Within the framework of the program “Student E-Learning Experts” of the HDA, our project for the development of teaching videos in the field of materials in civil engineering was funded in the project period from 01.01.2020 to 31.03.2021. In the course of this time, we have created teaching videos of the most important normative fresh and hardened concrete tests, which, among other things, form an important part of our course “Materials in Civil Engineering”.
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Picture: WiB, Kira Weise, Rick RieckWhat does a research assistant do at our institute?
2021/08/30
Our first video introducing possible job profiles in the field of construction materials is available online!
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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.
