• Conception and development of software for structural design using methods from the field of artificial intelligence (hierarchical model-based planning based on description logic

• Participation in the "Structural planning" working group of the buildingSMART e.V. association to develop an IFC-based data exchange format for BIM planning and statics software

• "Preventive quality assurance in computer-based structural design through failure mode and influence analysis" (www.tragwerk-fmea.de) of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning - research initiative "Future Construction" in cooperation with the BVPI as well as the Technical University of Munich and the University of Kassel

• R&D project “FALTREM | 3D folding calculation with boundary element method" at the Hessen agency of the state of Hessen in cooperation with the University of Kassel.

• Vario apartments of the ZukunftBau research initiative, model project on the former Martini site in Kassel, which flexibly meets the needs of students, trainees and older people, open BIM approach to cost optimization and planning and construction time reduction

• "BIM-cloudwork" for model-based cooperative planning with the help of Internet-based workflow systems and IFC building models (pre-phase), call for proposals from the research fund in 2018