Completion of the EIV-BAU research project

The Institute of Construction Management is pleased to announce the successful completion of an interesting research project:
Basic investigation for the adaptation of an innovative demolition process from mining (EIV) as a new construction technology for selective deconstruction in sensitive areas - EIV-BAU.

A large part of today's construction projects is realised in existing buildings. This almost always requires the sensitive deconstruction of existing building fabric. Deconstruction technologies have to fulfil particularly high requirements in inner-city residential areas and during ongoing building use, both for construction measures in the existing building stock and for new construction measures. Currently used demolition technologies rarely meet the growing requirements in building practice. Common demolition and separation methods are characterised by high emissions, such as vibrations and noise, large quantities of blasting material, slow performance progress or high physical effort. An alternative technology is the electrodynamic electro-impulse process (EIV). The process technology, newly developed for applications in mining and special civil engineering, is based on the destruction of solid materials by high-voltage pulses. On the basis of large-scale tests in mining dimensions, it was possible to demonstrate high dissolving capacities with low energy input. The research project aimed to investigate the basis for transferability of the EIV to low-emission and selective material removal in structural, civil and structural engineering.
The publication of the final report of the EIV-Bau research project can be found under the following links.
The file is available both on the BBSR website
https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/DE/veroeffentlichungen/bbsr-online/2021/bbsr-online-30-2021.html
as well as in the project profile on the Zukunft Bau website
https://www.zukunftbau.de/projekte/forschungsfoerderung/1008187-1818