The Research Infrastructure of the SFB TRR 277 AMC (2022-09)¶

The global challenges of our time are climate change, population growth and the reduction of resource consumption. For the construction industry, this means building more in the coming decades while at the same time reducing resource consumption and emissions. The craft-based construction industry is not prepared, either technologically or in terms of personnel, to meet these challenges economically and ecologically. This is where the Collaborative Research Center TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC) of the two universities TU Braunschweig and TU Munich comes in with its basic research. The AMC regards additive manufacturing as a key digital technology for the construction industry, as it combines the advantages of automated and individualized manufacturing. In additive manufacturing, components are built up layer by layer without the need for molds. This creates fundamentally new requirements for materials, process technologies, design and construction and can only be researched in highly interdisciplinary teams of scientists from the fields of civil and mechanical engineering. The basis for cross-material research into different additive manufacturing technologies for use in the construction industry is the research infrastructure in the field of digital construction fabrication that has been systematically built up over many years. At its two locations, the TU Braunschweig and the TU Munich, the AMC can draw on the most innovative research facilities. These include DFG-funded large-scale research facilities such as the Digital Building Fabrication Laboratory (DBFL) and the RoboCoop3D as well as a large number of self-financed innovative research facilities at both locations. The AMC research infrastructure will be continuously expanded and extended over the course of the research project. This article presents the existing research infrastructure as well as the research infrastructure currently being acquired and planned.