The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning

Research projects

The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) supports federal politics with its projects. The projects deal with current issues of spatial planning, urban development as well as building and housing. They reveal the need for political action and provide scientifically sound bases with which political instruments and measures can be further developed.

You can find an overview of current and completed research projects on this page. You can use the search function to search for specific topics using key words.

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Standard climate versus local climate - Investigation of the future usability of local climatic boundary conditions derived from the new local test reference years for energy verification Type: Research Project

In energy requirement calculations for public law verification, the climatic boundary conditions of the Potsdam site have so far been used uniformly for the whole of Germany. By using local climate data, the difference between calculated demand and measured consumption …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: September 2018 – June 2020

Is there a price bubble in the German market for residential property? Type: Research Project

Markets for assets such as real estate are prone to price exaggeration. Overconfidence, herd instincts and other behavioural anomalies of investors can lead to self-enforcing price trends and the formation of price bubbles. Speculative debt and banking crises may …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: December 2018 – June 2020

The urban dimension in the EU structural policy 2014-2020 Type: Research Project

The project analysed the promotion of the urban dimension in the Structural Funding period 2014-2020 on the basis of all operational programmes (OP) in Germany. A focus was on the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and the ESF (European Social Fund). Secondarily, …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: November 2018 – December 2020

Alternative contract models for the award of a unit price contract for construction services in the public sector Type: Research Project

In the case of complex construction measures, the conclusion of construction contracts in a legal form other than that of the unit price contract could be conducive to project implementation in order to comply with or optimise construction time, costs and quality …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: August 2017 – February 2020

Conducting an expert conference on the influence of parking space requirements on construction costs in residential construction Type: Research Project

Regarding the high construction costs of parking spaces, the "Commission to Reduce Building Costs" recommended that the states and municipalities adapt the parking space requirements to today's demand as part of careful urban development planning. At the conference …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: December 2016 – December 2019

People and Success Stories 2019 Type: Research Project

The focus of the competition "Menschen und Erfolge 2019" was "Living in small towns and communities of rural areas" and searched for projects that have successfully contributed to the improvement of housing and the living environment. A total of 136 entries were …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: November 2018 – February 2020

Update of the brochure "BNB – Office and administration buildings" Type: Research Project

The Assessment System for Sustainable Building for Federal Buildings (BNB) is a holistic assessment procedure for office and administrative buildings. The aim of the project was to update, further develop and supplement the information brochure "Assessment System for …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: August 2017 – November 2019

Work aid for adaptation of BNB – development of a work aid for the application of the BNB to construction measures for which no system variant exists Type: Research Project

The Sustainable Building Assessment System (BNB), which has been in use since 2011 for the holistic consideration and assessment of sustainability aspects for buildings, was expanded in 2013 to include "analogous application". This scope of application is to be expanded …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: August 2018 – November 2019

Urban infrastructures within the "Stadtumbau" programme under growth and shrinking conditions Type: Research Project

This research project focused on measures in which funds provided by the “Stadtumbau” (urban restructuring) urban development funding programme were used to adapt urban infrastructures. The project examined reasons for as well as the planning and implementation of …

Programme: Urban development grants Status: Completed Project duration: February 2018 – December 2019

Global urban transformation: involving New Urban Agenda, SDGs and the Paris Agreement into Germany‘s local and national urban development Type: Research Project

International and European agreements like the New Urban Agenda, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Urban Agenda for the EU give new impetus and place demands on cities. In order to make municipalities future-compliant and to …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: September 2017 – October 2019

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