Project report

Center for Sustainable Digital Construction (ZNDB)

Together with the faculty of civil engineering at the TH OWL, a concept was developed to present the idea of the ZNDB in a media piece. The concept was to showcase the current, innovative research approaches from the design to the future construction site. The 3D visualization in a game engine made it possible to create a construction site of the future. The KIO developed the concept, implementation and visualization of the idea in realistic resolution.

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, training, transfer and scientific dialogue.

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