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.

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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.

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Alnatura Campus

For the 55,000 square metre Alnatura Campus, the former barracks site in the southwest of Darmstadt was extensively renaturalised. Sealed areas were b...

Straw house Bechter

The clients wanted a barrier-free, cost-effective and ecological house - so they came up with the idea of building it from straw. The architect design...

Kulturkraftwerk oh456

The plus-energy office building oh456 with attached small hydropower plant serves as a prototype for testing innovative technologies. The building wil...

Parish Seetal

The construction emphasizes constructive wood protection. The heating works fully solar by means of concrete core activation. The building was designe...

Rectory Bruck

The facade is made of sawed larch, which has been treated with a special glaze to anticipate the natural gray coloration....

office building 2226

The goals: The Crinolbau, in need of renovation, was to make way for a contemporary and economical replacement building that respects its historical s...

House Streckhof

At the beginning of the planning there were long discussions with the builders, site visits, studies to find the suitable place where the new member s...

House Baierl

The monolithic single-family house was built with 50 cm thick plane bricks. As a natural building material, they make the building durable....

House W

This residential house reflects the trend of monolithic construction in modern timber construction and shows that tradition and new developments can b...

House Aigner

The semi-detached house, which is situated on the Tennengebirge in Salzburgerland, was built in solid wood construction. It is insulated with wood fib...

House G

The desire of the owners, a family with two children, was to build simple and alpine in the best sense. The outer skin, the vertical, raw wood formwor...

House Maier

The monolithic single-family house made of wood sees itself as an attempt to question, break open and rethink the conventional. The narrow upward stri...

House Dornbirn

Plastered 50 bricks, oak, concrete, little steel, glass - high-quality materials and simple construction make the monolithic single-family house robus...

office building Netter Bau

The new headquarters of Netter Bauart was designed and aligned according to the laws of the harmony theory Feng Shui. The choice of building material ...

Clay house Rauch

The Rauch residence is a model of modern earthen building. It was designed and built by the earthen building pioneer Martin Rauch and the architect Ro...

Auenwerkstatt

The Auenwerkstatt is a small school building in the middle of the Salzachauen: an all-wood building, completely self-sufficient, powered purely by the...