Das Schwerpunktprogramm 2187 „Adaptive Modulbauweisen mit Fließfertigungsmethoden“ lädt herzlich zur Abschlusskonferenz „Modular Construction and Reuse“ ein, die am 2.–4. März 2026 stattfindet. Nach zwei Förderperioden und mehr als sechs Jahren Forschungsarbeit markiert die Konferenz den Abschluss des Schwerpunktprogramms und bietet eine Plattform zur Präsentation zentraler Forschungsergebnisse.

Die Konferenz findet gemeinsam mit den Forschungsverbünden SFB 1683 und SFB/TRR 277 statt und fördert den interdisziplinären Austausch zu aktuellen Entwicklungen im modularen Bauen sowie zur Wiederverwendung von Baukomponenten.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme und den persönlichen Austausch während der Konferenz.

Datum
2. – 4. März 2026

Programm
siehe Flyer

Anmeldung
Bitte melden Sie sich bis zum 6. Februar 2026 über folgenden Link an:
https://public.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/anmeldungen/Seiten/anmeldung-spp.aspx?vid=140

Kosten
Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei

The Priority Program 2187 “Adaptive Modular Construction Methods with Flow Production Methods” cordially invites you to the final conference “Modular Construction and Reuse,” which will take place on March 2–4, 2026. After two funding periods and more than six years of research work, the conference marks the conclusion of the Priority Program and offers a platform for presenting key research results.

The conference is being held jointly with the research networks SFB 1683 and SFB/TRR 277 and promotes interdisciplinary exchange on current developments in modular construction and the reuse of building components.

We look forward to your participation and to personal exchanges during the conference.

Date
March 3 – 4, 2026

Program
See flyer

Registration
Please register by February 6, 2026, via the following link:
https://public.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/anmeldungen/Seiten/anmeldung-spp.aspx?vid=140

Cost
Participation is free of charge.

Title
2nd Generation of Eurocode 2: Concrete structures

Speaker

Hans Rudolf Ganz

Date

March 11, 2024| 4:00 – 6:00 pm

Abstract

The first generation of Eurocodes, published between 2004-2007, has been under revision since 2015. The second generation Eurocode 2 has been approved for publication by CEN in June 2023 and made available by CEN to its members, the National Standardisation Bodies begin of December 2023. The presentation will briefly inform on the process and organisation for the revision of Eurocodes and preparation of Eurocodes 2^nd Generation, in general. The presentation will then illustrate some general changes made to Eurocode 2 with respect to structure of the standard, design models and considering sustainability, etc. This is followed by highlighting some of the most important changes made to main Clauses / design provisions of Eurocode 2, Part -1-1, General rules for buildings, bridges and civil engineering structures. Some brief information on main changes in future Eurocode 2, Part -1-2, Structural fire design will be given also. The presentation will end with an outlook on the next steps until the introduction of the 2^nd Generation Eurocode 2 in the countries and practice.

The main goal of AMBS is to use a mathematical approach to design efficient building structures. This includes skillful parameterizations of certain surfaces suitable for architectural design. The essential tools used to harness such surfaces are parametric modeling and geometric transformations.

Important but so far hardly noticed are the surfaces with negative constant Gaussian curvature (e. g. Dini), They allow special networks, having correspondences between asymptotic and principal networks. Benefits from combining those are explored during AMBS, since their properties allow the elegant creation of braced, piece-wise developable surfaces or/and planar quadrilateral panels. 

Geometrical characteristics enhance design possibilities and we will explore this hands on with bamboo structures. The good reason for using bamboo is its sustainability and its structural capacity. The organic material will also challenge the precision of the parametric setup. This part will be guided by international bamboo experts.

AMBS is both a summer school to enhance knowledge and abilities of the participants, and a design space exploration of mathematics and architecture, especially applied to bamboo construction.

AMBS interacts with the exhibition Plant Fever currently on display at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Pillnitz. The bamboo sculpture, which will be created during the workshop, will be displayed in context with »Plant Fever«.

The strategies combining a mathematical approach with the requirements of architectural design will be presented during the upcoming AAG conference in Stuttgart.

If you want to apply, please go to application to find the relevant documents.

Program

The main focus of the core program is on design projects that you will develop in small cross-disciplinary working groups during the first week of the summer school. In the second week you will apply your fresh knowledge in a prototypical project: a large sculpture made of bamboo. The sculpture is called »La Fleur Mathématique«, is said to be over 4 meters high and will hopefully be set up in the garden of Pillnitz Castle at the end of the workshop. Yes, this is an adventure!

The support program will lead you to local research institutes as well as to some of Dresden’s famous cultural institutions. Additional tours into the surrounding beautiful countryside provide opportunities for relaxing and hiking.

Schedule

The following schedule is preliminary and will be refined on the fly.

First week

Second week

Acknowledgment

The summer school is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the SPP 2187. Additional funding is made possible by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Application

Please send this Application PDF filled out to: AMBS-2023@tu-dresden.de
Deadline for applications is Wednesday, 21st of June, 2023.

Acceptance letters will be sent until Friday, 23th of June, 2023.
With the notification of acceptance we will inform you to what extent we can support you financially. We assume that we can cover all costs for travel and accommodation. Further information can be found online. https://tud.link/e6t0

topic: structural connections in concrete – state of the art and concepts for modular construction

only accessible to network partners

• Monday, 14th of November 2022
• 4:00-6:00 p.m.
• Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dipl. Dipl. Ing. Panagiotis Spyridis

Today’s engineering community faces a variety of major challenges: the digitalisation of all industries, the need for high-performance, sustainable and resilient infrastructures and cities, and the deceleration or even reversal of climate change. The construction industry in particular is also facing severe constrictions in terms of skilled labour, occupational safety, digitalisation and environmental sustainability. Therefore, faster and automated construction through the use of components with the possibility of a long service life and the potential for re-cycling and re-use is crucial. The construction and rehabilitation of building components must therefore move away from manual and very often non-disassemblable and -recyclable assembly processes and the production of non-separable construction waste. This presentation will address the relevance of modern structural connection technologies and the role such systems can play in future-oriented applications. It will present application paradigms and established design concepts, discuss open issues in ongoing research, attempt to suggest some possibilities for advanced fastening concepts and stimulate scientific discourse on further cross-disciplinary research and innovation.

Speaker

Dr.-Ing. Felix Clauß

Felix Clauß is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Concrete Structures, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Since 2022, he holds a PhD in civil engineering. His (post-)doctoral research focuses on health monitoring of concrete structures using ultrasound as well as topology optimization and its application to structural engineering issues.

Dr.-Ing Patrick Forman

https://dev.imp10.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/kib/mitarbeiter/aktuellemitarbeiter/forman/index.html.de

Dr.-Ing. Patrick Forman is senior engineer at the Institute of Concrete Structures, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He received his PhD there in 2016. Since 2020, he is technical managing director of the Priority Program 2187 “Adaptive modularized constructions made in a flux” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His research focuses on structural optimization, lightweight concrete structures for solar thermal collectors as well as modular and rapid construction methods.

topic: modeling and analysis with epistemic uncertainties in engineering

only accessible to network partners

• Monday, 25th of July 2022
• 4:00-6:00 p.m.
• Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer

Epistemic uncertainties appear across all engineering fields to quite some significant extent. Although they can often be described phenomenologically and qualitatively, they counteract a rigorous quantitative description, which is needed as a basis for a realistic risk assessment. In the presence of epistemic uncertainties the specification of a probabilistic model and the associated risk analysis lead to hypothetical results presuming some intuitive guess to capture the influence of the epistemic uncertainty. That is, we quantify risk based on conditions that represent assumptions rather than facts. Such results can be significantly misleading. It is thus of paramount importance to quantify epistemic uncertainties most realistically. This quantification should neither introduce unwarranted information nor should it neglect information. On this basis there is a clear consensus that epistemic uncertainties need to be taken into account for a realistic assessment of risk and reliability. However, there is no clearly defined procedure to master this challenge. There are rather a variety of concepts and approaches available to deal with epistemic uncertainties, from which the engineer can chose. This choice is made difficult by the perception that the available concepts are competing and opposed to one another rather than being complementary and compatible. Clearly, the first consideration should be devoted to a probabilistic modelling, naturally through subjective probabilities, which express a belief of the expert and can be integrated into a fully probabilistic framework in a coherent manner via a Bayesian approach. While this pathway is widely accepted and recognized as being very powerful, the potential of set-theoretical approaches and imprecise probabilities has only been utilized to some minor extent. Those approaches, however, attract increasing attention in cases when available information is not rich enough to meaningfully specify subjective probability distributions. The presentation will feature models for epistemic uncertainties, and it will highlight their capabilities and added value when used for engineering analysis and design. Illustrative examples are used to explain the respective features. The discussion on the models is complemented by presenting a powerful numerical technology for processing epistemic uncertainties even in very complex and nonlinear engineering analyses. This technology can be used not only for reliability analysis, but also for sensitivity analysis, design, model updating and more.

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topic: structural optimization: theory to practice to theory

only accessible to network partners

• Monday, 30th of May 2022
• 4:00-6:00 p.m.
• Speaker: Dr. James Richardson

This talk will focus on my journey into the theory of structural optimization, how this theory inspired some practical applications, and how lessons learned informed further academic work. Specifically, research topics in topology optimization of truss-like structures will be discussed, and some practical applications will be shown and explained.

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topic: construction in space

only accessible to network partners

• Monday, 28th of February 2022
• 4:00-6:00 p.m.
• Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johann-Dietrich Wörner

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Join our Partner Seminars and receive a certificate! From October 2021 to September 2022 eight partner seminars will take place. Partner seminars are focused on cross-sectional and interdisciplinary topics and are open to all network partners. If you attend at least six of the eight seminars, you will receive a certificate of time attended. You must register for this at the beginning of each event. The procedure for this will be briefly explained before each seminar.

topic

Digital supported structural optimization and automated construction: Using new tools to further develop engineering and craftsmanship in the 21^st century

Only accessible to network partners

• Monday, 22nd November 2021
• 4:00 – 6:00 pm
• Speaker: Prof. B.Sc. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Benjamin Kromoser

The rapidly growing world population as well as the increasing prosperity leads to a constant need of new habitats, new work places and new infrastructure in unprecedented quantities. With rising demand, the scarcity of resources vital to the building process as well as the environmental pollution increase. Based on the developments of current technology, the building industry will unavoidably fail to provide a viable environment for the 11.2 billion people estimated to inhabit the earth by the end of this century. The most important sector in terms of raw material demand is the construction industry. In 2015, 47.5 gigatonnes of raw materials were consumed worldwide in this sector alone. As described in with an equivalent to roughly 13% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the construction-related expenditures sum up to $10 trillion globally, making the construction sector one of the largest of the world economy. Suffering from a remarkably poor productivity relative to the other sectors, with a global labour-productivity growth of only 1% per year in average over the past two decades (world economy 2.8%, manufacturing 3.6%), the productivity of the construction sector has remained stuck at the same level throughout the last century. In comparison other sectors like agriculture and manufacturing have increased in productivity 10–15 times since the 1950s. In addition, we are confronted with an increasing scarcity of skilled workers with no end in sight accompanied with an unlearning of crafting skills. These data and developments prove that a significant reduction of the environmental impact, an enormous increase of the productivity as well as new methods to train skilled engineers and workers are required within the next years. This is only possible if we perform adjustments at all possible screws: (1) material, (2) structure, (3) manufacturing/ construction technology accompanied with an assessment of the environmental and economic performance as well as the development of new training programmes. The presentation will show possible ways how to contribute to this required development with and introduction of strategies for the design, optimization and construction of the buildings of tomorrow. As special focus will be laid at the interaction of science-economy-craftsmanship. In detail the design and structural optimization of shell structures made from wood and concrete as well as their production/ erection will be presented. Furthermore, a new established lecture format at BUKU focusing on digital design and automated construction will be introduced.

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Join our Partner Seminars and receive a certificate! From October 2021 to September 2022 eight partner seminars will take place. Partner seminars are focused on cross-sectional and interdisciplinary topics and are open to all network partners. If you attend at least six of the eight seminars, you will receive a certificate of time attended. You must register for this at the beginning of each event. The procedure for this will be briefly explained before each seminar.