Lightweight and switchable glass technologies can improve the energy management of buildings with large-area windows and glass facades and contribute significantly to reducing energy consumption for heating or cooling. Improving…
Sustainable and cost-efficient retrofitting and planning. Rising energy prices pose a great challenge to private individuals and companies. At the University Kaiserslautern-Landau, a team from the fields of building systems…
A team of researchers at the University of Kansas School of Engineering has partnered with U.S. federal agencies in a push to reinforce American dams and levees nationwide using fiber-reinforced…
… control light incidence. Controlling light and heat radiation through windows and glass facades at the push of a button, saving energy and still maintaining a clear view? Switchable electrochromic…
Starting signal for new Christian Doppler laboratory at Graz University of Technology in Austria. Sustainably produced concrete mixtures from mineral residues and waste materials could partially replace Portland cement-based concrete…
At the BAU 2023 trade fair, Fraunhofer UMSICHT will present innovative solutions for the construction of the future at the joint booth of the Fraunhofer Building Innovation Alliance (Hall C2,…