Research at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Based on the strategic research priority areas of TU Dresden our diverse research activities at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering focus on providing solutions to global mega-challenges such as energy, resources, mobility and climatic change.

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Research Activities at our five faculties

Faculty of Architecture

Research activities cover a wide array of subjects, for example Knowledge Architecture, Design methodology, design and representation in architectural education and practice, Perception of space and spatial design, Historicity, Demographic change and its impact on society, Computer aided teaching and learning methods in architecture.

Faculty of Civil Engineering

Research and development have a major impact on the quality and safety of buildings. At the institutes of the faculty user-friendly programmes are created and continuously enhanced. For the experimental research large and performant laboratories are available. In these laboratories very large components are tested up to failure, river currents are simulated and extremely small details of construction materials are made visible with high-resolution special microscopes.

Faculty of Environmental Sciences

Topics of global importance are within the research focus of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences. These comprise adaption to climate change, renewable energy systems, environmental monitoring and geoinformation technologies, forestry, hydrology, physics of limnology, risk and water resources management.

"Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

With its interdisciplinary teaching and research network of traffic economics, traffic engineering, transport infrastructure and transport technology, it makes an important contribution to the sustainable development of all transport and infrastructure systems to meet the ever-growing mobility needs of society.

Faculty of Business and Economics

The faculty's research program is diverse and shaped by an interdisciplinary and highly methodological approach. The faculty cooperates with competence centers and central institutions of the TU Dresden, like the Centre for Demography and Diversity (CDD), the Health Economics Center (GÖZ), the School of International Studies (ZIS), the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), and the ifo Institute.

Research and Transfer Activities

More about the Research Priority Areas of TU Dresden and about sample projects.

recent publications of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The researchers of the five faculties of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environmental Sciences, "Friedrich List" Transport & Traffic Sciences, as well as Business & Economics carry their research results into the public through lectures, interviews, publications in the media, further education offers, consulting activities or through events.

This will give practitioners in business and administration as well as the interested public access to new findings. Research results often lead to applicable products or services as well as to regulations or patent applications. Cases in which an additional benefit for society is created are awarded.