The automotive industry is in a constant state of transformation due to the constant evolution of existing technologies and innovations, as well as new ones being added. In recent years, autonomous driving capabilities and many other vehicle and software features...
Smart City
Integrated planning
According to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), integrated planning is a basic requirement for sustainable construction. Like an artistic gymnast, it practices the balancing act between...
Ontologies in automotive simulations
Fully autonomous vehicles are still rarely encountered on public roads, although autonomous driving has long since ceased to be mere dreams of the future. The legal framework for fully autonomous vehicles is in place: the "Automated Driving Act", which has already...
Smart grids: The world of energy is changing
With technological progress, the demand for electrical energy is increasing immensely, making not only generation but also distribution a challenge. This growing demand increases the complexity of power grids as requirements for reliability, efficiency, safety, and...
The new IAA Mobility – a decentralized hybrid concept with growth opportunity
400,000 visitors from 95 countries, nearly 1000 speakers and 744 exhibitors gathered at the new IAA Mobility last week. Among them were car manufacturers, important players of the tech industry, numerous relevant companies of the supply industry and suppliers of...
Building Material 4.0 – Megatrend Sustainability
Sustainability in building materials gets more and more important, since rar materials are becoming scarcer. On the one hand, this is due to a worldwide construction boom: The supply of building materials is currently not keeping pace with the permanently increasing...
Path from a Smart Building to Cognitive Buildings
There is hardly any other area where safety and security are as fundamentally important as within one's own four walls. On the outside, they have always repelled intruders or even wind and weather. Inside, they delimit rooms. Until now, however, walls have merely...
Construction industry trends are green and digital
Sustainability dominates everything The fact that the availability of resources is limited forces their careful and economic use. Therefore, sustainability is the guideline for every consideration about the construction industry. As a result, there is a trend towards...