Project report

Center for Sustainable Digital Construction (ZNDB)

Together with the Department of Civil Engineering at TH OWL, a concept was developed to convey the idea of the ZNDB through a media contribution. It was especially important to represent the ZNDB holistically, meaning to depict the current innovative research approaches from draft to future construction sites. Through the 3D project visualization within a game engine, it was possible to visualize a construction site of the future, which until now only existed as a theoretical approach in the development stage. The conception, implementation, and visualization of the innovation ideas of the ZNDB in realistic resolution was the task of the KreativInstitut.OWL in this project.

Project participants

Leonie Hans Kim Marc Salscheider Guido Falkemeier Tobias Knödel
Sarah Schnell
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nikolai Gerzen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Hollmann
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Nolte

Project status

Erfolgreich abschlossen

Visualization of a Digital Construction Site

The background of the visualization was the joint stand of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at EXPO REAL 2023 in Munich, where current key tasks for a more sustainable construction industry in the future were presented. Digitalization in this field is difficult to implement for various reasons: time pressure, high costs, or even the sheer size of a construction site. The Center for Sustainable Digital Construction (ZNDB) at the Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe addresses precisely this issue.

The ZNDB consistently pursues the goal of increasing sustainability in the construction industry—always with the focus on securing housing and jobs.

It bridges the gap between digital planning and digital construction by developing new approaches in a digital lab, testing them on a larger scale in a real-world lab, and working in direct collaboration with the industry. The associated learning and communication center is dedicated to education, further training, transfer, and scientific dialogue.