Architects and civil engineers train together at the faculty under the Dortmund model for the building industry. The model is unique in Germany and represents a teaching concept that, in addition to the fundamental training in the chosen discipline, aims to give students interdisciplinary collaboration in a team with other engineers involved in construction. Projects involving joint work in a team of Architecture and Civil Engineering students take on a key role for the learning about this collaboration.

Architects and civil train together at the faculty under the Dortmund model. The model is unique in Germany and represents a teaching concept that, in addition to the fundamental training in the chosen discipline, aims to give students interdisciplinary collaboration in a team with other engineers involved in construction. Projects involving joint work in a team of Architecture and Civil Engineering students take on a key role for the learning about this collaboration.

The faculty has numerous cooperation partners in other European and non-European countries. The cooperation faculties are open to students for a period of study abroad, as well as to teaching staff for lecturer mobility. There are currently ongoing research projects with partners in France, Algeria, Austria and the USA, among others.

The Institute of Construction Research supports experimentally oriented teaching and research as well as interdisciplinary cooperation. Equipment: Concrete and mortar laboratory with concreting system, sampling and processing tools, hydraulic and mechanical test machines, tensioning facility with flexible test frames, climate chambers and construction materials laboratory with photometer, scanning electron microscope, etc. The building services (TGA) laboratory supports the practice-oriented teaching and research of plant engineering. The materials archive links the sensory experience of materials, which is essential for education and training.

A key research area of the department is permanent structures. The aim is in-depth analysis and clarification of the issue of how buildings and civil engineering structures need to be designed and constructed to give them a life span that is appropriate for their purpose and resource usage. In line with the principle of resource-efficient building, this area is concerned with effectively increasing the life span of architectural structures using new extended planning and design concepts while taking into account the requirements in the lifecycle.

The entire department works on digital and sustainable topics that are crucial in the building and construction industry and its development. Each course incorporates these aspects.