Steinbeis Research Center Environmental Building and Building Materials

• Setting up contacts and organizing consultation with specialists
• Optimization of business processes
• Market and diversification strategies
• Quality management and certification
• Regional economic development
• International technology transfer
• Expert reports
• Research and development
• Training and continuing professional development

• Sustainability in the construction industry 
  • Raw material availability, resource management
  • Evaluation and promotion of renewable raw materials
  • Application of renewable raw materials in construction
  • Assessment and optimization of durability and usage life of building materials and buildings
  • Development and assessment of substance and material cycles, and ongoing use or re-use strategies
  • Methods and instruments of ecological evaluation (eco-audits, environmental management, environmental performance evaluation)
  • Provision of solutions to reduce ecological damage (noise, air/ground/water pollutants)
• Construction physics and construction measurement technology
  • Theoretical and practical physical construction investigations on sustainable building (heat, humidity, noise, fire and light)
  • Thermal insulation materials
  • Thermal conductivity measurements
  • Energy measurement in buildings
  • Sound insulation
  • Sound emission and noise reduction planning
• Contaminated sites and recycling technology
  • Asbestos
  • Heavy metals coatings
  • Insulation material containing CFCs
  • Sheets/plates emitting formaldehyde
  • Demolition
  • Removal of old foundations
  • Design of land surfaces
• Geotechnology and landfill technology
  • Landfills
  • Old deposits/contaminated sites

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• The Milling and Machining of Natural Fiber Plastics (Transfer 3/2014)
  Steinbeis team conducts research into bio-based polymers