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Person in black jacket standing in front of a wall covered with architectural photos and drawings.Bernd Seeland
Inaugural lecture

Florian Kaiser has held the newly created professorship "Circular timber construction" (KHB) since WS 24/25. We invite you to the inaugural lecture on January 28, 2026. It starts at 19:00 in the Fritz Haller lecture hall at the Faculty of Architecture.

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Wooden framework of a building under construction with exposed beams and scaffolding.Niklas Erlewein
Searching for donor buildings

Is a building with valuable timber structures about to be demolished in your area or in your neighborhood? Our professorship is looking for high-quality old wood from beams, girders, floorboards or similar elements. Ideally, the existing building should already be in the process of being dismantled.

Architectural model of a multi-story building with visible roof trusses and interior framework.Vitus Kaufmann, Korbinian Rapp
Award "innovative timber use and timber Construction BaWü 25"

The work "Umbauen & Umnutzen" by Korbinian Rapp and Vitus Kaufmann, created at the Chair of Circular Timber Construction (Head: T.T. Prof. Florian Kaiser) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), was awarded the student prize "Innovative Timber Use and Timber Construction Baden-Württemberg 2025".

Umbauen & Umnutzen