Transition into a new age?
With the so-called “High-Tech Strategy”, the Federal Government aims at assisting Germany to assume a leading role in resolving global challenges. As far as the construction industry is concerned, this primarily relates to ensuring the mobility in the field of infrastructure, the reliability of building structures and the reduction of energy and resource consumption in Germany. The initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) intends to combine the outstanding scientific, technologic and entrepreneurial competences that have been created in the eastern federal states...