If owners need additional space in their property, for example for a home office, a hobby room or an apartment, this can often be realized in the basement. The FMI Mineral Wool Industry Association points this out. However, owners should consider various aspects of the basement extension in advance, namely the building physics, the structural requirements and the...
According to a survey by the Bauherren-Schutzbund, more and more modernizations are being postponed or abandoned altogether. In August 2022, only 34.3% of homeowners surveyed with a 15-year-old or older property stated that they wanted to have modernization measures carried out. Around half a year earlier, the figure was 50.2 percent. In addition, more than half of...
Interested parties can apply for the German Timber Construction Award, which is endowed with a total of 20,000 euros, until Sunday, January 15, 2023 at deutscher-holzbaupreis.de/online_einreichung/. The prize is awarded to buildings and building components that are predominantly made of wood, wood-based materials and other renewable raw materials. Architects, builders, among others, can take part...
Numerous cities and municipalities apparently want to beat climate change. According to the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building (BBSR), 286 project outlines from 235 municipalities were received for the federal program for adapting urban areas to climate change. The amount of funding applied for is around 983 million euros. This means that the amount of funding applied for is around 5.5 times...
Anyone thinking about building a house should obtain comprehensive information about it in advance. To ensure that nothing goes wrong with the project, the Bau Praxis portal provides "25 tips for better building for private builders". These range from obtaining "basic factual information" to "checking the ground conditions" and "personal contributions". At the beginning, for example, model houses can be viewed,...
Reducing dependence on raw material imports and strengthening domestic raw material production - this is what the German Construction Industry Federation (HDB) and the German Building Materials Association (bbs) call for in their joint position paper "Ensuring security of supply of raw materials, building materials and energy - further increasing resource efficiency". The associations fear that...
BG Bau informs small and medium-sized companies in the construction industry about fire protection in the construction industry with various measures. For example, interested parties can order the brochure "Betrieblicher Brandschutz in der Praxis" for 5 euros via the bgbau.de website. There is also a so-called Bausteine app, which provides tips for safer working. Users can enter...
How can vibrations from extremely large wooden ceilings of over eight meters be reduced? Patrica Hamm, lecturer at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Project Management at Biberach University of Applied Sciences (HBC), is investigating this question. Together with Master's students Johannes Ruf and Valentin Knöpfle as well as the project partner, Primin Jung Deutschland GmbH, she wants to develop a vibration-optimized...
A company from Grünwald offers the creation of life-size floor plans of up to 200 square meters. Using special high-performance projectors, founders Gissou and Lucas Nummer can, for example, project furniture and walls onto a surface in real size. All they need in advance, i.e. before construction begins, is a floor plan from the client. After the floor plan has been...
Researchers at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have developed a new way of drying damp walls caused by water damage. FastDry®" is a rectangular insulation board that is attached to the damp wall after water damage. The resulting water vapor passes through the insulation panel with integrated heating wire. According to the company, the heat remains...
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