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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Implementation Network for Sustainable Educational Buildings Type: Research Project

The Assessment System for Sustainable Building for office and administrative buildings as well as educational and laboratory buildings is a mandatory part of the planning and implementation for all buildings being constructed on behalf of the federal government. To …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: September 2020 – July 2023

Affordable and Sustainable Construction and Housing Type: Research Project

Within this research project, 42 selected model projects were used to analyse the framework conditions and determining factors for the reconcilability of affordable and sustainable construction and housing.

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: September 2020 – November 2023

Capital Intensity and Labour Productivity in the Construction Industry Type: Research Project

Productivity growth in the German construction industry has been stagnating for decades. It does not participate in the overall productivity progress. The research project has investigated the reasons for the stagnation of labour productivity in the construction …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: August 2021 – October 2023

Improvement of summer heat protection in federal buildings through standardisation and typification Type: Research Project

Summer heat protection of buildings is becoming increasingly important due to climate change. In order to reduce the associated repeated design effort and to accelerate the design process, typical rooms and standard solutions are to be developed for federal buildings.

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: September 2022 – June 2023

Systematic analysis of research on measures to reduce housing construction costs Type: Research Project

The research study bundles research results of the past 15 years on topics related to construction costs. The state of research on cost-effective and affordable housing has been systematically identified and analysed.

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: December 2020 – May 2022

Socio-scientific evaluation of the Efficiency House Plus educational buildings Type: Research Project

The aim of the project was firstly to investigate the motivations and possible obstacles to the construction and operation of Efficiency House Plus educational buildings on the part of the building owners. Secondly, it would also evaluate the extent of users’ acceptance …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: September 2020 – February 2023

Support for sufficiency approaches in the building sector Type: Research Project

Sufficiency can make a significant contribution to climate protection and other sustainability goals in the building sector. To this end, the project identified approaches, quantified potential savings and described proposals for policy instruments.

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: September 2021 – September 2022

Study on energy certificates for Efficiency House Plus buildings Type: Research Project

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: July 2021 – June 2022

Climate adaptation and standardisation procedures – Analysis of existing building standards and technical rules in the context of climate change Type: Research Project

The climate is changing: hazards from heat, floods and heavy rain are increasing. What does this mean for building standards and technical rules? How can standards help to make buildings more resilient?

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: December 2019 – March 2022

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