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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Transactions of small rented housing stocks Type: Research Project

The transactions of rented housing stock conducted on the German real estate market have been the subject of research, publications and parliamentarian enquiries over the past years. In this context, the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: November 2009 – November 2011

Strategies of the municipalities for their municipal housing stocks Type: Research Project

Many municipalities sold parts of or their entire municipal housing stocks over the past years, others planned the sale but this was prevented by the intervention of citizens. Other municipalities again have decided to pledge themselves to a long-term holding and to …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: November 2008 – October 2011

Image-boosting urban districts in metropolitan environments Type: Research Project

With ever-more intense competition for inhabitants and workplaces, the German metropolitan regions are faced not only with the challenge coming from their immediate environs, but also the one presented by national and international locations too. The realisation of …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: November 2008 – December 2010

Repeat sales of rented housing stock Type: Research Project

In large transactions of housing stock over the past years, there were fewer housing stock packages that were sold for the first time than such stock that had been sold already previously. The research project elaborated the current developments in the area of flat …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: January 2009 – December 2010

Urban Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change (StadtKlimaExWoSt) Type: Research Project

Both, causes and consequences of climate change mainly affect urban areas and must therefore be examined. Climate change increases the already extensive urban heat islands. The built-up environment, i.e. buildings and infrastructures, neighbourhoods and whole cities, …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Ongoing Started: Since February 2010

Urban Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change (StadtKlimaExWoSt) Type: Research Project

The subject of the StadtKlimaExWoSt "Subproject I" was climate-proof urban development at the local level. Nine pilot projects (cities or smaller towns and in two cases co-operations of neighbouring cities) developed integrated approaches to tackle climate change.

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: December 2009 – November 2013

Development of a data base of model buildings for energy-based examinations concerning particularly profitability Type: Research Project

In the course of consistent further development of the energy-saving regulatory framework, the necessity becomes apparent to regularly carry out analyses regarding economic efficiency and factual achieved energy conservations. To achieve significant results, it is …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: September 2009 – October 2010

Community Concepts: Housing Type: Research Project

Residential accommodation provision of households with difficulties in accessing the market, development of existing flats or strengthening of internal development are only some of the challenges requiring individual strategies and approaches in both shrinking as well …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: March 2007 – August 2010

Cost of accommodation and the housing markets - Impact of the takeover of cost for accommodation by municipalities on social benefit recipients Type: Research Project

With the reform of the social security systems in 2005, the regulations governing state support for housing cost also changed, relocating state support from the federal level to municipalities. The municipal takeover of appropriate cost of accommodation (CoA) within the …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: December 2007 – November 2009

Activating the potentials of cooperative housing: Evaluating the recommendations of the Expert Committee on Housing Cooperatives Type: Research Project

Cooperative housing offers an alternative to home ownership and housing as a tenant. Launched in 2002, the Expert Committee on Cooperative Housing intended to strengthen the specific potentials of cooperative housing in terms of housing supply. The central subject …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: November 2007 – November 2009

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