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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Unification and harmonization of existing planning and evaluation tools to an overall system Type: Research Project

The research project compiled an overall system for sustainable construction. In this overall system, it was shown the connection of planning and evaluation tools on the basis of examples.Project duration: November 2006 – November 2007

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: November 2006 – November 2007

Certification of the sustainability of buildings Type: Research Project

Topic of the research project was the development of a scientific concept for a national certification system for the sustainability of buildings. Challenge in this context was, beside the simultaneous and equivalent consideration of all criteria relevant for the rating …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: November 2006 – November 2007

Structural data in the construction sector Type: Research Project

In official statistics, data on the scope and structure of Germany’s construction sector is incomplete. To close this information gap, DIW Berlin developed an extensive rating model. On this basis, the activities of the construction sector are comprehensively described …

Programme: Future Building Status: Ongoing Started: Since January 2008

Liveable city centres Type: Research Project

City centres are a place where people meet, exchange, and identify, a centre of reference and an expression of a lively and forward-looking society. That is why city centres that have lost their function have to be stabilised and filled with new life. Against this …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: July 2005 – October 2007

Attractive urban neighbourhoods for the elderly Type: Research Project

What living conditions should urban districts and neighbourhoods offer to the elderly so that they can live well? Evaluating follow-up research to 21 earlier ExWoSt (Experimental Housing and Urban Development) pilot projects and other urban development projects, the …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: September 2005 – December 2006

Strategies strengthening the tourism in the new federal states with regard to the national and international competitive environment Type: Research Project

In line with the project, the current competitive situation in the East German travel areas within the national and international context was classified. According to that, the tourism-related development potentials were identified and strategies for the coverage of …

Programme: Development of Eastern Germany Status: Completed Project duration: August 2006 – August 2007

The formal and effective incidence of federal funds Type: Research Project

In Germany federal funding strongly influences regional development. For a transparent analysis of spatial effects of federal payments it is necessary to record not only the spatial dispersion but also the actual use of federal payments including tax preferences of …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: October 2005 – August 2007

The Contribution of Technology Transfer to the Development of Regional Innovation Potentials in Eastern Germany Type: Research Project

The project has presented options of how the Eastern German science-infrastructure can play a major role within the further economic development Eastern Germany. Different approaches how technology transfer from universities and research institutes to economy can be …

Programme: Development of Eastern Germany Status: Completed Project duration: September 2006 – July 2007

Basis for the development of climate protection instruments in the building sector Type: Research Project

The research project aimed at the development of a concept for getting more information about the German residential building stock with respect to energy saving and climate protection. It can be seen as a pilot study for follow-up projects which could lead to the …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: October 2006 – July 2007

Update of the guideline sustainable building – effect of quantitative evaluation in the planning and evaluation process of buildings Type: Research Project

The fundamental bases of all future analyses of sustainable quality of buildings according to the Guideline Sustainable Building are quantitative life-cycle considerations with regard to their life-cycle costs as well as the ecological life-cycle assessment. The …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: November 2005 – June 2007

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