Building materials

Anyone who builds needs building materials. Building materials are materials that can be used to construct structures, for example buildings, bridges and roads.The use of most building materials is regulated by standards.Since building materials differ in quality depending on the material (selection, combination, quality and processing), planning and project planning principles, current standards and guidelines, specifications and ordinances by the legislator, processing regulations and the recognised rules of construction technology also apply.

Read more

The use of building materials is always dependent on the state of technology.This changes constantly in the course of technical progress.Depending on the state of the art in a society, proven building materials are used and/or new building materials are developed.

New techniques for the use of a new building material develop around it, and so on.

Filter posts
Hide filters
Categories
Apply filter and show results

Hensel barracks Villach

The Austrian federal army commissioned BauKarussell with the use-orientated demolition of the Hensel barracks in Villach. Together with Schindel &...

CRCLR-Haus

The CRCLR building in Berlin-Neukölln was remodelled in 2023 in line with the principles of the circular economy. The focus was on recycling and reusi...

School Köln-Deutz

The Brügelmannstraße secondary school in Cologne-Deutz is one of the most sustainable schools in Germany. It consists of flexible cluster areas that p...

Richardstraße primary school

Richardstraße primary school in Hamburg responded to growing pupil numbers with a three-storey extension. The new building, which cost 5.7 million eur...

Digital product passport for the construction industry

Process-related data provision for the construction industry - Objective: Making taxonomy, life cycle assessment rules, cost auditing and construction documentation manageable for small and medium-siz

Alberzell production hall

The construction company Irrenhauser & Seitz has built an innovative production hall in Alberzell that emphasises recyclability. The aim was to ut...

Magdas Hotel

As part of an extensive conversion, a former priest's residence was transformed into a hotel with 85 rooms, a restaurant, a pub garden and a guest gar...

Santa Elisabetta House for senior citizens

The Villaggio Santa Elisabetta nursing home is located between Bressanone and Varna, in northern Italy. The facility aims to achieve sustainable devel...

Vienna Patent Office

The European Patent Office in Vienna - located between Belvedere Palace and the Botanical Gardens - is undergoing a comprehensive refurbishment. The b...

Campus Rauner

The old Rauner primary school, a sprawling conglomerate from the 1960s, was largely demolished. In its place, a compact, three-storey building is now ...

glemm21

In the interior of the new headquarters of Rieder Facades GmbH, numerous elements were reused according to the ‘Reuse and Recycle’ principle, such as ...

Cube One TU Nürnberg

The first building of the new campus of the Technical University of Nuremberg (UTN), Cube One, has been home to the Executive Board and various depart...

Korbach Town Hall

With the demolition and new construction of the town hall, the current approaches of urban mining and circular construction were trialled in a solid b...

The Raiqa - the Innsbruck centre quarter

Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG is building a new headquarters between Südtiroler Platz and Bozner Platz, creating a lively neighbourhood in Innsbruck....

Trade centre 16

The "Trade centre 16" in Bergheim near Salzburg is a modernised commercial area that originally consisted of the warehouses of the former mail order c...

Extension and refurbishment BG/BRG Mattersburg

The secondary school in Mattersburg was renovated and extended. An atrium-shaped extension with 18 classes, a new main entrance, cloakrooms and dining...

ASG - Residential complex

The ASG residential complex on the northern edge of Vienna, close to the Marchfeld Canal, comprises two buildings with a striking saw-tooth structure ...

Konrad Lorenz Grammar School

The Konrad-Lorenz-Gymnasium in Gänserndorf, the largest building in the town, was modernised and extended to provide space for 1,000 pupils. A recycle...

Residential building St. Vincent

On the site of a former nursing school in Wangen, the Vinzenz-Quartier was built in 2024 with a total of 122 residential units in six buildings. Three...

District sports hall Wangen

The new three-court sports hall in Wangen was built to replace the ‘old sports hall’, which was around 70 years old, between the north and south vocat...