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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WSB- Residential complex Wieselburg

The residential complex on the northern edge of Wieselburg consists of four buildings: an arcade type with twelve units and three point blocks with a ...

MA 48 Crew building

The MA 48 team building in Vienna-Simmering is the first building to use recycled concrete. The recycled content in the concrete is around 15 - 20 per...

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 ...

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...

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...

Wohnbau Leyserstrasse

The ‘Rosalie’ residential building in Penzing is part of a neighbourhood development at the Theodor Körner barracks. The barracks park was made access...

Telegraf 7 Office

Vienna's Lehargasse 7, close to the Naschmarkt, is home to the former telephone exchange of the Imperial and Royal Post and Telegraph Directorate. Pos...

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...

ERGO Group AG

The ERGO office building in Munich is characterized by its two structured volumes and a spacious glass entrance hall with expansive galleries. As part...

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...

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 ...

Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie

The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), Berlin is regarded as an icon of 20th-century architecture. Built between 1963 and 1968, it is the on...

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...

Comprehensive renovation of Prinzersdorf Town Hall with extension

The classic reinforced-concrete building of post-war modernism (completed in 1973, designed by architect Hable) was on the verge of demolition. Its de...

Winery Michael Bauer

The new wine tavern of the Michael Bauer winery on the outskirts of Mitterstockstall near Kirchberg am Wagram is well hidden in the middle of a courty...