Building Envelopes and Civil Engineering Competence Center for building envelopes, engineering, supporting structures, geotechnics and natural hazards

Building envelopes

The Competence Center helps companies, planners and building owners to address issues concerning building envelopes. It conducts tests, analyzes, develops and researches in tune with the industry`s cycles and trends.

Geotechnics and natural hazards

The Competence Center deals with questions around the behaviour of the natural building materials that are soil and rock - namely their influence on the building of structures - and around current, practice based problems in the field of hydraulik engineering and natural hazards. The Center uses scientific methods to develop practical solutions within the framework of your project.

Supporting structures

The Competence Center deals with a wide range of topics in the field of solid construction, helping to achieve project goals with expert knowledge, commitment and a constructive approach.

The experts of the Competence Center support industry partners with computer-aided calculations, accredited testing, material and component testing, measurements and monitoring, consultancy services and expert opinions.

Several test halls with strong floors, a facade test stand and an optical laboratory are part of the Competence Center`s equipement, as well as a geotechnical, concrete and hydraulic laboratory. Furthermore, there are stationary and mobile testing facilities for glass and facade testing available.