Timber Construction - SuSe 20

In more than 10 subjects, this semester the HFT Stuttgart starts to work on topics of the Solar Decathlon Europe 2021, including design, structural engineering, interior design, urban mobility, building services engineering and many more. The good cooperation of these different disciplines is inevitable in order to create a well thought-out, comprehensive project. Let us coLLab!

In the subject Timber Construction students work on universal details of how modern timber construction and building services engineering can be joined together in a sustainable way. Modern timber construction is becoming increasingly important. This is not only due to aspects of sustainability, but also to new production and construction methods that have revolutionised timber construction. Timber construction is considered sustainable because the raw material wood is sustainable, but also because it is claimed that timber construction can be dismantled, recycled and construction elements can be reused. Is this really true? Research projects are being carried out to investigate the sustainability of timber constructions. The interim results are sobering: wooden components are sometimes connected with other components or materials such as plasterboard, screed, building services, underfloor heating, electrical wiring in such a way that dismantling or reuse requires considerable effort. This means that an essential promise of sustainability is not fulfilled. The Solar Decathlon project is intended to be different. We want to work out generally valid details of how modern timber construction and building services engineering can be joined together in a sustainable way. Since it is about a symbiosis of timber construction and building services engineering, it is necessary to become familiar with both aspects in order to identify the interfaces.