The research focus on climate-adapted building  addresses issues of ecological-energy building research, resource conservation and research on climate-adapted and contextual planning and building in conjunction with innovative and future-oriented facility concepts in buildings. Interdisciplinary research projects in this area extend beyond the classic interplay of climate-appropriate design, materials and plant research to the scale level of sustainable urban development in the sense of an ecologically, economically and socially compatible reorientation. This includes research projects on transformation processes in the field of technical infrastructure in connection with the energy, water and nature balance in the city and the region, on energy supply concepts for urban neighborhoods and rural regions, on mobility interfaces, on the circular economy, on climate adaptation of the city and the region, e.g. on the further development of the resource efficiency of floating structures (Institute for Floating Structures).

In view of the global climate policy goals and the resulting national targets, the climate-adapted building envelope as well as climate-adapted technology must become even more important in the future. In addition, attention must be paid to the reuse of existing building fabric to further utilize the "grey energy" built into existing buildings as a resource.The institutionally existing laboratories in the FMPA and at the Department of Building Physics and Building Technology provide good foundations for teaching and research.

Climate-friendly construction is inextricably linked with all approaches to the preservation of existing building fabric - whether in building construction, civil engineering or infrastructure construction. Here, the focus can bring together previously solitary activities within the faculty and, by bundling different research methods, have an enormous driving effect on the research of the faculty and beyond.