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.

24 Search results

Smart Cities - Gamification, Prediction Markets, Wikis & Co: New knowledge for cities Type: Research Project

Cities Countries, Data Rivers? Digitalization means: More knowledge than ever is available. Data can be gathered, connected and analyzed in innovative ways. Communication and decision-making processes in cities and urban planning are undergoing rapid changes. This …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: November 2015 – May 2018

Urban transport for the day after tomorrow Type: Research Project

This study of the programme "Experimental Housing and Urban Development" (ExWoSt) aims to support and stimulate the discussion on the future of urban mobility. This is done by evaluating the current scientific landscape, and by designing five urban scenarios based on …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: January 2016 – October 2018

Digital infrastructure as a regional development factor Type: Research Project

The availability of broadband infrastructure for the German regions has been a significant factor influencing economic and regional development for some time. Location decisions are increasingly based on this criterion. Well-supplied areas have an advantage over regions …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: December 2014 – October 2018

ÖKOBAUDAT and Europe II Type: Research Project

A growing demand for cooperation with the ÖKOBAUDAT from abroad requires further activities for internationalisation and harmonisation of the datasets. A key issue is the development of the current infrastructure of individual LCA databases towards an international data …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: August 2016 – September 2017

Effects of e-commerce on transport system and urban planning Type: Research Project

The study analyzed the impacts of e-commerce in transport and which effects in urban planning are to be expected by this. In order to measure this effects in scenarios, international scientific literature and quantitative analyses were reviewed and transferred to three …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: September 2015 – January 2018

Smart Cities – Development of an urban development policy framework Type: Research Project

This project investigated the effects of digitalization on future urban development, the opportunities it offers, and the risks involved. On the basis of four scientific expertise on selected topics and the involvement of an interdisciplinary work group consisting of …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: September 2015 – July 2017

Digital Guideline Accessibility in Building Design Type: Research Project

The Guideline Accessibility in Building Design has been used since 2014 as a reference work to implement barrier-free building for the federal construction in its complexity. With this research project, the content of the guideline was made available online. The content …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: December 2013 – May 2017

CO2-neutral in cities and neighbourhoods - the European and international perspective Type: Research Project

The EU has set out ambitious targets for CO2 reduction. Urban areas emit the largest part of greenhouse gases (GHG) including CO2 globally. Therefore, emissions need to be reduced in cities and neighbourhoods in particular (mitigation). But how do cities measure their CO2

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: October 2015 – November 2016

Smart Cities - How online trading can affect the spatial development of inner cities, district centres and neighbourhoods Type: Research Project

The study investigated how the increasing share of online-trading sales channels affects urban centres. Avoidable/unavoidable and desirable/undesirable spatial effects were addressed and recommendations developed for instruments to design and control development in the …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: December 2014 – November 2016

ExWoSt – Sci Fi Cities – Urban Futures in Art, Literature and Video Type: Research Project

Imaginary cities are an important element of science fiction in literature, comics, films and computer games. These depictions contain coherent images of reality. The research project examined whether and in what respects works of science fiction can help urban planning …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: November 2014 – April 2015

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