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  • Contribution to Resource-Saving Construction

    Sand is the most heavily traded solid resource in the world, with human consumption of the material estimated at 50 billion metric tons per year – and that figure is rising. Sand can be found in concrete, bricks, glass, roads, insulation and solar installations, among other applications.
    8. March 2023
  • Does concrete // in a sustainable world // have a future ?

    In this event, we would like to stimulate a discourse on the current problems in the use of concrete, the current and future possibilities of recycling old concrete into new concrete, as well as new application concepts and production formulations for concrete.
    1. March 2023
  • NEWood

    100% bio-based, sustainable and recyclable: NEWood is one of those alternative building materials that could have a special significance for the radical turnaround in the construction sector.
    16. January 2023
  • Sneak Peek – The Material Library

    The team of the KIT material library happily presents visible progress in the material library itself and in the work on the material samples.
    5. January 2023
  • RoofKIT’s coming home

    For the next three years, the winning prototype of the Solar Decathlon 2021/22 - RoofKIT from Karlsruhe - can be inspected on the campus of the KIT.
    9. November 2022
  • Building Better – Less – Different

    Hebel, Dirk E., Felix Heisel and Ken Webster (eds.), Birkhäuser, Basel 2022. Published in Oktober 2022.
    24. October 2022
  • Plastic: Remaking Our World

    An exhibition about the history and future of an controversial material by the Vitra Design Museum, V&A Dundee and maat, Lisbon
    10. October 2022
  • Mag. Arch. Roland Gruber at sustain.build.repeat. by KIT

    At the symposium sustain.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in April 2022, Mag. Arch. Roland Gruber gave a lecture about cities expanding and growing at the outer edges while city centers are constantly becoming emptier and calmer.
    12. September 2022
  • Prof. Dr. Philippe Block at sustain.build.repeat. by KIT

    At the symposium sustain.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in April 2022, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block gave a lecture about how existing construction principles could be applied in a much more material- and resource-saving way in the future - by the application of the "strength through geometry" principle.
    5. September 2022
  • M. Sc. Dominik Campanella at sustain.build.repeat. by KIT

    At the symposium sustain.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in April 2022, M. Sc. Dominik Campanella gave a lecture about about the digital documentation of materials for the establishment of reuse in the construction sector.
    26. August 2022
  • Dipl. Kfm. Daniel Fuhrhop at sustain.build.repeat. by KIT

    At the symposium sustain.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in April 2022, Dipl. Kfm. Daniel Fuhrhop gave a lecture about the hidden living space in existing buildings that can be easily found and recreated by introducing social programs - without harming the climate or constructing new buildings.
    22. August 2022
  • Prof. Thomas Auer at sustain.build.repeat. by KIT

    At the symposium sustain.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in April 2022, Prof. Thomas Auer gave a lecture about the energy performance and climatic robustness of old, refurbished and new building structures.
    15. August 2022
  • Dipl. Ing. Arch. Kerstin Müller at sustain.build.repeat. by KIT

    At the symposium sustain.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in April 2022, Dipl. Ing. Arch. Kerstin Müller gave a lecture about the manifold possibilities between demolition, preservation and further construction of existing buildings.
    8. August 2022
  • Prof. Dipl. Ing. Tina Kammer at sustain.build.repeat. by KIT

    At the symposium sustain.build.repeat., held by the KIT Faculty of Architecture in April 2022, Prof. Dipl. Ing. Tina Kammer gave a lecture about the ongoing deep changes across the design, construction, use and reuse of buildings: about building better, less and differently.
    1. August 2022
  • Sneak Peek – Working on the Materials

    Not only the space of the material library is currently being rebuilt and restructured. The contents of the material library are also being sorted, structured, edited and documented by the material library team at the same time.
    19. July 2022
  • Team RoofKIT wins the Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22 in Wuppertal

    Designed as a top-up to an existing structure of the 19th century in the old city fabric, the project designed and built by KIT students demonstrates a vision for the building industry: social adequate, energy positive and circular sustainable.
    27. June 2022
  • Podcast sustain.build.repeat.

    Many exciting speakers were guests at the 2022 sustain.build.repeat symposium, which was held at the ZKM and livestreamed under the management of PINK Event Service. The event was organized by the KIT Professorship of Sustainable Construction with the kind support of Wacker Chemie AG. In order to revisit the contents of the symposium, a podcast was recorded in cooperation with Campusradio Karlsruhe.
    5. June 2022
  • Thanks for sustain.build.repeat.

    See some impressions of the event here. We would like to sincerely thank all those involved in the event for their commitment and organisational efforts, for the great encounters, conversations and new connections that were created at and through the symposium.
    9. May 2022
  • Symposium sustain.build.repeat. – Building Stock as the Resource of the 21st Century

    We are very pleased to announce our 3rd Symposium on Sustainable Construction on the 29th April 2022 in the ZKM Medientheater in Karlsruhe and online. The event is organized by the Professorship of Sustainable Construction and is being held with the kind support of Wacker Chemie AG.
    2. April 2022
  • The Symposium is currently being advertised

    In the two buildings of the Department of Architecture at KIT, the Symposium "sustain.build.repeat. - building stock as the resource of the 21st century" is currently being announced with many posters.
    31. March 2022
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