Solid, practice-related basic training in Higher Mathematics, Technical Mathematics, Building Physics, Materials Science; balanced mix of subjects in Structural Engineering and Infrastructure Planning; varied options for intensive student advice and counselling, also with personal support of the students; Direct contact between students and professors.

Water Management topics (Flood Risk Management, Water Supply, Wastewater Disposal) are dealt with in the context of international issues, challenges and tailored approaches to problem solving; 5+5 cooperation programme with Fuzhou University, China; long-standing student exchange with the University of Namibia (UNAM) in the fields of Water Management and Materials Science, production of large-scale demonstrators for water procurement, water storage and agricultural use of water.

Very well-equipped laboratory for Structural Engineering (Materials Science, Building Physics, Solid Construction, Steel Construction, Foundation and Soil Mechanics and materials testing institute); fire hall with furnace for fire testing on building materials and construction components; water/wastewater laboratory for standard analysis of water and wastewater samples.

SinOptiKom: the need for the technical infrastructure for water and wastewater to adapt to climate change and demographic change; arrivee: purification plants as a control energy component for generating energy with renewable energy; R-Beton: resource-efficient concrete – materials for the next generation: sustainability and resource conservation through the use of recycled aggregates (urban mining); computer tomography in the field of materials and solid construction: 3D characteristics of aggregates, distribution of steel fibres in concrete and their behaviour in a fracture; 3D printing of concrete