On 25 April 2024, the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering invites interested schoolgirls to take part in an exciting hands-on programme about the construction of the future as part of this year's Girls' Day.

Heat records, heavy rainfall, storms and droughts - climate change is here. The construction sector contributes significantly to this through high CO₂ emissions in the production of buildings and construction products. On 25 April 2024, interested students will learn how to build in a more climate-friendly way and protect resources such as water during Girls' Day at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The programme, which consists of three stations, starts in the concrete laboratory. There, the participants will find out to what extent recycled concrete and the use of CO₂-efficient cements are alternatives to traditional concrete. The participants can also produce different types of concrete themselves and take them home as a souvenir. Afterwards, the participants can look forward to explosive tests with concrete samples in the test hall of the construction section.

How can aspects such as sustainability and changing climatic conditions be incorporated into the design of buildings, bridges and other structures from the outset? Participants can find out the answer to this question at the second station. Here, participants can design bridges themselves using a bridge construction simulator and try out whether they can withstand different loads.

In December 2023, it was still "land under water" in many places. At the third station of the day in the engineering hydrology laboratory, the participants learn how dam breaches occur during flood events and what challenges climate change poses for water management in Germany and worldwide.