The Top 5 Articles of 2024
Discover the top 5 ALLPLAN articles of 2024, featuring innovations in bridges, AI, materials, and high-rise challenges shaping the AEC industry's future.
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Sustainable ‘SuperHub’ fascinates with visible load-bearing structure made of glued laminated timber
The sustainable “SuperHub” in Meerstad fascinates with its visible load-bearing structure made of glulam. The engineers used SCIA Engineer for modeling and structural analysis of the load-bearing structure.
5 Tips for efficient Precast Design and Detailing
ALLPLAN Precast 2025 offers numerous innovations to accelerate precast design and reduce errors.
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German Design Award for BHKW Leipzig North-West
Because its façade is a work of art, the German Design Award 2023 goes to the Leipzig North-West combined heat and power plant.
Hidden Gems: 4 Underrated Features in ALLPLAN That Will Change Your Workflow
Architectural visualization expert, Pietro Massai, shares his top four powerful yet underutilized Allplan features for improved site analysis, rendering, and collaboration.
Seamless Design to Delivery: Combining ALLPLAN and SCIA Engineer
Explore how the seamless collaboration between Allplan and SCIA Engineer supports innovation in engineering projects across the globe. More on our Blog.
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Sense and nonsense of rainwater usage
Rainwater usage sounds like it is environmentally friendly and money saving. Read our blog to find out whether this is actually true.
Plastic as a replacement for cement: Stronger eco-cement in the future?
Students at MIT have introduced an eco-cement which is 20 percent more stable than normal concrete. Recycled plastic is used as a replacement for cement.
These 3 German corporate headquarters have set world records for being green
Newly built corporate headquarters are the stars among sustainable office buildings in the German Green Building scene. We show three of them.
Independent and self-supporting: Life in self-sufficient villages
Life in self-sufficient villages: Architecture makes important contributions to future-oriented forms of jointly self-sufficient life together.
How sustainable is energy efficiency?
New building or energetic reconstruction? Read our blog to find out when energy efficiency is also truly sustainable.
Unbeatable air improvers: Building materials that let us breath healthily
Air pollutants are manifold. In addition to avoiding the equally diverse causes, intelligent building materials also improve air quality. Learn more about this on our blog.
Brilliantly Green: Everything facade greening uses
The positive effects of building greening are so far-reaching that it is almost crazy not to use it. Learn more on our blog.
A High-Rise Made of Wood? The urban timber construction of today can do that
Timber construction in an urban area: Learn more about the opportunities of the high-tech material of wood for the urban architecture of the future.
Sustainable building: Tried-and-tested recycled insulation materials
Recycled insulation materials are an environmentally-friendly alternative: We will present tried-and-true recycled material products for environmentally-friendly insulation to you.
Recycling: Building with waste
The construction industry in Germany produces more than 50 percent of all waste. Rigorous recycling is required to preserve the valuable raw materials.
Together you heat less than alone (and cheaper)
Since new homes hardly consume any energy, it's possible for other houses to share a heating system. Find out the resulting urban planning and social consequences.
Sustainability in urban planning: The futuristic Gwanggyo Power Center in South Korea
The Gwanggyo Power Center in South Korea - an innovative city of the future. Learn more about this example of sustainable building planning on our blog.
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Hello and welcome to the ALLPLAN Blog! The blog for everyone in the construction industry. Can we be honest? Does the world really need another blog? We asked ourselves this question before we launched the ALLPLAN BLOG in 2016. After intensive self-reflection, we came to a clear conclusion: No. However, what we felt was still missing was a format that represented the AEC industry in all its diversity - from architecture and urban planning to civil engineering and infrastructure, materials science, new technologies, production methods and construction methods.
We are as passionate about aesthetic form as we are about sustainable substance - and above all about the successful combination of both aspects. We are particularly interested in innovative ideas, concepts, processes and projects that improve construction. In doing so, we take a look at practice, but also at research and teaching. Our contributions are aimed at professionals such as architects, urban planners and engineers, as well as building owners, developers and general planners, whose needs and requirements represent the beginning of better building. Of course, anyone who finds their way to our site out of curiosity or by chance is also very welcome. Because the construction/AEC industry is too fascinating and beautiful not to share it with everyone.