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    • Standardized laboratory measurements

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    • Sound absorbers

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    • Material and Substance Flow Analysis

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    • Online-Software GENERIS^®

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    • The Sustainability Data Science Life Cycle (S-DSLC)

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• Hygrothermics: Moisture and thermal control Expand / Hide

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    • Moisture related properties

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    • Component simulation

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    • Mesoscale models

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    • Product development and optimization in hygrothermics

    • Products tailored to different climates and applications

  • 25 years of WUFI^®

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    • Durable green roofing

    • Using heating systems to cool rooms

    • Urban design adapted to climate change

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    • Calcined clays

    • Cement hydration

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    • Sensor systems

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    • Vehicle components (interior & exterior)

    • Indoor air quality

    • Building products

    • Vehicle propulsion systems

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    • Test bench with emission test cells

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    • Resistance to growth and sustainability of microorganisms

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  • Cattail

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    • BNB-Tool

  • FastDry Technologies™

• Aviation

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• Interiors optimized with the user in mind

• Digitization / BIM

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• Materials and building materials

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• BIMiD

• Residential construction

• Clean Sky

• E-Comfort

• ECOTHERM

• The Efficiency House Plus

• EnEff-BIM

• IEA Annex 58

• IT-Toolkit India

• Demand-oriented lighting

• Living Lab Wuppertal

• Lilienhof Munich

• SEE - Stuttgart Energy Efficiency

• Fryscraper

• VASE

• ValMoNuI

• Wind-powered heating 2.0: long-term storage

• TaLed

• Sports and Swimming halls

• Building Physics of Urban Areas

• Buolus

• The Sound of E-Mobility

• EnEAS - Energy Efficiency

• Design of Organ Pipes

• Photoacoustic Sensors

• Inflatable Membrane Elements

• Acoustic window control

• Rim as Sound Absorber

• Active Vibration Insulation

• Carillon

• Soundproofing Adhesives and Sealants

• Slim Transducers

• "Staubgold" - Turning Dust into Gold

• Sound Insulation of Stud Walls

• Wind Noise generated by Façade Elements

• Wind Tunnel Measurement on an Aircraft Wing

• SAGA

• Simulated pass-by

• MAVO Polymeracoustics

• Acoustic Umbrella

• WAMS: Heat pumps

• Cultural journey

• Modular low-energy storage facility

• Climatic stability in historical buildings

• Building material made from cattail

• External plasters through the ages

• Damp buildings and thermal insulation

• Climate for Culture

• Capillary reverse transport capabilities

• Energy-efficient renovation of half-timbered buildings

• Energy-efficient ventilation

• Moisture properties of internal insulation with fiber insulation materials

• Flexible roof pitch

• Hygrothermal component simulation

• Hygrothermal reference years

• IR paint

• Interior insulation in historical buildings

• Measure surface moisture over time

• Cleanroom ceilings

• Localized cooling

• Numerical simulation

• Textile building envelopes

• Drying behavior of screed products

• Drying behavior of masonry

• Moisture behavior in reverse roof insulation

• Typha for internal wall insulation

• Foshan New City

• Transparent film enclosures

• Healthy living

• Adjoining rooms climate models

• Building quality for China

• Multilayer-effect glazing for hygrothermal insulation

• Testing composite thermal insulation systems

• Treating wall and underfloor water damage

• Drying wall, floor and ceiling structures

• professional software solution for DIN V 18599

• Thermal and Acoustic Comfort in the Galley/Door Area of an Aircraft

• Acoustic Design of the Microstructure of Granular Sound Absorbers

• Auralization

• Building Sound Design

• Hearing Aids tested in the wind tunnel

• HiPIE Laboratory

• Saving Energy in Peace and Quiet

• Mobile Partition Walls with Integrated Multimedia Systems

• Sound-Masking Floor Lamp

• Wooden Ceilings

• Micro-optical building components

• High-performance working environments

• Cattail on the roof

• Waste gases from incineration plants

• Carbon Black

• GENERIS®

• Biodiversity in life cycle assessments

• Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt

• EeBGuide

• Ensuba

• Necomada

• Molecular Sorting

• Biogas sensor technology

• Waste2Go

• ENOB - PlusEnergy-Depot

• POMPEJI Arch&Lab: Restoration archive and exhibition laboratory

• Cultural heritage conservation in Petra

• Learning from the past

• Saving energy with effective sound insulation

• Calculating renovation costs

• Sustainable plant protection

• Urban Climate Under Change

• Optimizing sound absorbers

• Fresh aircraft - facts

• "Effizienzhaus Plus"

• Hy4HoGa

• ProPolis

• AVATOR

• MetaVib

• UCARe4Citizen

• Healthy Air Initiative

• ASHCON

• BAUSEP

• HCL-Con, Human Centric Lighting Control

• Full spectrum LEDs

• AIR-COSIM

• Good acoustics in schools and daycare centers

• Acoustics in courtyards

• Tourism and Noise

• CosteXergy

• ECO-SEE

• ECBCS Annex 49

• EBC Annex 64

• ECBCS Annex 37

• “Clean Air Acoustics”

• IMEDAS

• EnerKey

• Measuring and testing facility goniophotometer

• Task 50

• Daylight façade planning

• Talisys

• Energy efficiency of lighting systems

• Asphalt test rig

• Noise emissions from drone taxis

• E-CirP

• Processing masonry rubble

• Strategies to combat the coronavirus

• LEE-BED

• VR MultiSense

• Face masks impair speech intelligibility

• How efficiently do air purification technologies eliminate viruses from the air?

• Expertise for sustainable innovation

• C3RRO - Technology spin-off

• Climawin

• Hygrothermal behavior of window/wall interfaces

• Blinds between window panes

• Laboratory weathering tests on special laminated glass

• Passive house certification in the USA

• Shanghai 5D City Digital Model

• Rapid weathering facility for assessing the risk of mold growth on exterior coatings

• Comparison of methods for renovating wooden beam ends

• A comparison of wall heating systems

• Simulation of mechanical turbulence

• SafeCar

• Release of root penetration inhibitors

• Assessment of green roofing structures

• Circonomy ^®

• Morgenstadt Global Smart Cities

• RESycling

• UseUClim

• Energy-efficient schools

• Ways to achieve the Efficiency House Plus standard

• Research on Energy Efficient Cities

• School of the Future

• Aircraft sidewall designs

• Environmentally-friendly cargo fire extinguishing agents

• Cabin comfort in business jets

• Subject tests in the Flight Test Facility (FTF)

• Loud vehicles and quiet tires

• Oldenburg on the path to climate neutrality

• Acoustics for rooms in historical buildings

• Carbon-neutral noise control structures

• Environmental properties of common plasters and mortars

• ENERGIEWENDEBAUEN

• BRITA in PuBs

• Annex 46 - IT-Toolkit

• Efficiency House Plus in Cologne-Frechen

• Efficiency House Plus Berlin

• Kunsthalle Mannheim

• PlusEnergy children’s daycare center

• Acoustically-designed building façades

• DAMIBO

• Clean air in quiet rooms

• C² in CO_²

• Standing up to climate change

• Mobile air purifiers in classrooms

• Recycling inorganic composite materials

• Carbon-neutral energy supply

• CRUFI

• Acoustic properties of modern thermal glazing

• Building material made of cattail and geopolymer

• SolarVHF

• New replacement building at Ulm University of Applied Sciences

• Historical Archive in Cologne

• Monitoring Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt

• Research project “In situ verification”

• Circonomy^® Hubs

• Preventing damage to cultural assets in times of climate change

• Collaborative project "Herzo Opt"

• Project CycloPlasma

• Fungal adhesive

• Climate-Adapted Architectural Heritage

• Psychoacoustic mapping

• TaHo

• UV virus protection glass

• CAMaRSEC

• ACCE 2024

• Pollutants in precipitation runoff from non-metal roofs

• PACFAST

• KERES

• QUEEN-HP-MEEP

• QUEEN-HP-MENESA

• SleepWindow

• Sound Controlled Ventilation

• ADVentAGe

• PHOTOFOL

• DIGAKUST

• Bassorber

• GreenAcoustics

• Brushed acoustic panels

• Privacy at office workplaces

• CoolDown

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  • CAMaRSEC

  • »Primordial Cities Initiative«

  • Recycling from carpet waste

  • Protective canopy

  • Fungus as a sound absorber

  • Innovative grilling technique improves air quality

  • Carbon black

  • 25 years of WUFI

  • Using heating to cool rooms

  • Projekt AVATOR

  • Bamboo’s response to moisture

  • Projekt AVATOR

  • KERES

  • CineCov

  • Innovative and energy-efficient facade renovation

  • Climate-friendly investments

  • FastDry

  • Packaging systems

  • “Building the Future”

  • Programmable materials

  • Urban planning for climate change

  • CIRCONOMY® Hubs

  • Mathematical model

  • Aviation safety

  • Wooden structures

  • Press releases

  • Press releases

  • Fraunhofer IBP at BAU 2025

  • Flagship project BAU-DNS

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  • CoNZEBs brochure

  • Professorship for Building Physics

  • Fraunhofer Project Center

  • Primordial Cities

  • BIM2FM Collaboration Group

  • Crowdfunding campaign

  • PHERA

  • COVID-19 prevention

  • Network Hydrogen

  • face masks

  • Aerosols Expert Group

  • CO2 Environmental Calculator

  • Research program aerosols

  • Professorship for Preventive Conservation of Historical Monuments

  • EASAC-Report

  • EnergInno Brazil 2022

  • ORIENTING Final Conference

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  • Food waste

  • Uniqueness and diversity

  • Label for more transparency

  • Disruptive external influences in the office environment

  • Energizing message

  • Reality check

  • Nothing but hot air

  • The sun shines every day

  • Moisture

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Testing Expand / Hide

• Heating and Chimney Systems

• Building Acoustics

• Hygric properties and inorganic materials

• Emission, environment and hygiene

• Thermal Characteristics

• VOC-emissions

• VOC concentration indoors

• Substance release from construction materials

• Odor emissions

• Microbial growth development

• Thermal analysis

• Thermomechanical analysis

• VERU

• Thermal conductivity hot plate apparatus

• Test facility for impermeability

• Test facility for impermeability

• Thermal resistance and thermal transmittance

• Big climate simulator

• Three-chamber climate simulator

• Water tightness against driving rain

• Climate chambers and climate cabinets

• Thermal conductivity pipe insulation

• Calculation of thermal parameters

• Heat dissipation floors

• Solar heat gain coefficient

• Material and component characteristics

• Emission coefficient

• SRI

• Spectrophotometer

• Solar simulator

• Existing glazings

• Spectroradiometer

• Artificial ageing

• IR laboratory

• Water vapor transmission properties

• Water absorption

• Drying curve

• sorption

• Moisture distribution

• capillary activity

• Tensile strength

• Air-conditioned test hall

• Driving rain impact

• Dew water on the surface

• Accelerated test

• Flat and pitched roof

• Sound insulation façade test laboratory

• Impedance tube

• Window test laboratory

• Sound insulation door test laboratory

• Sound insulation wall test laboratory

• Sound absorption reverberation room

• Flanking sound transmission cavity and raised floors

• Sound insulation room-high elements

• Sound insulation wall test laboratory

• Noise of water installations

• Impact sound insulation floor coverings

• Noise water taps supply valves

• Massive noise water installations

• Flanking sound transmission suspended ceilings

• Impact sound and impact sound insulation of floors and floor coverings

• Rain noise

• Flanking sound transmission ventilation ducts and shafts

• Sound insulation

• Flanking sound transmission wall constructions

• Sound power reverberation room

• Sound power anechoic chamber

• Sound power wind tunnel

• Dynamic stiffness

• Acoustic camera

• Vibration analysis

• Elastic modulus

• Sound pressure level semi-anechoic chamber

• Sound propagation semi-anechoic chamber

• HiPIE Lab

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