Glass, Facade & Lightweight Structures

Facade engineering has developed in recent years to a more and more significant, extremely wide and highly interdisciplinary field of the building industry. Within the pool of various facade engineering related research topics, our group addresses especially structural aspects of glass and metal facades. The aim is to develop efficient, safe and sustainable structural facade components and connections as well as advanced structural design methods. To achieve this aim experimental, analytical and numerical approaches and analysis methods are applied.

The current interests of the group in this research area focus amongst others on innovative glass-metal and glass-GFRP structural elements for transparent facades, on the application of additive manufacturing for novel and material efficient structural facade connections and on advanced simulation-based structural design methods for facade components and connections.