AutoReduced CO2 - Automation strategies for components
| Funding: | EU / LSA EFRE |
| Duration: | 2024-2027 |
| Project manager: | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Reich |
| Project collaborators: | Juanfra Garcia Guillen, Henning Dürr, N.N. |
The project aims to transform the construction industry by reducing carbon emissions through the use of innovative materials and digital technologies. The focus is on the optimization of construction elements. The aim is to improve material selection, robotic manufacturing processes and installation processes to achieve a lower environmental footprint.
New processes are to be introduced that use digital and AI-supported tools, parametric design tools and VR/AR to develop efficient workflows and optimized workflows from the idea to planning and production. A key focus is on incorporating lightweight, bio-based and recycled material and construction systems to develop innovative, environmentally friendly architectural solutions
Glass bending - process for the economical production of sharp-edged bent glass elements
| Funding: | EU / LSA EFRE |
| Duration: | 2025-2027 |
| Project manager: | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Reich |
| Project manager: | Sagar Vanapalli, MSc. |
The aim of the proposed project is to develop an economical process for sharp-edged bending of float glass. The focus of the process engineering development is on achieving sharp-edged corners in the angle range from 30° to 150°. The core premise was to ensure economic feasibility with low investment costs. Conventional hot bending currently allows the smallest radii of 10 times the glass thickness. Cold bending processes enable minimum radii of 1500 times the glass thickness. A new approach, which involves optimizing the cross-section of the bending edge in conjunction with both global and local heating of the float glass, aims to achieve sharp-edged bending corners with a minimum radius that roughly corresponds to the glass thickness.
WIBaH heat-storing interior components made of wood
| Project sponsor: | AiF Projekt GmbH, Berlin |
| Funding: | Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy, Berlin |
| Duration: | 2023-2025 |
| Project partner: | Reinicke Möbelfertigung & Bautischlerei Reinicke GmbH |
| Project manager: | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Reich |
| Project assistant: | Julia Krüger, MA |
The project Heat-storing interior components made of wood is based on the principles and findings of a previous project, Cimatic furniture, which was funded by the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture and Energy. In the WIBaH project, furniture and interior components made of wood are being developed that have a phase change material at their core, which is required to reduce summer heat peaks indoors. Together with the cooperation partner, techniques for integrating the PCM into the components are being developed and corresponding furniture and interior components manufactured, which will be analyzed and, if necessary, optimized in a test phase in order to ultimately develop a marketable product.
