Research Center
New Construction Technologies Center
About Us
Our Center conducts research and development work in the field of construction. This is where modern technologies and building materials are developed in response to market demands. Our team consists of engineers with passion, knowledge, and extensive experience in project development and implementation. They continually work on enhancing their qualifications and monitor current market trends. This ensures that the solutions we provide stand out for their innovation, functionality for construction enterprises, and adherence to sustainable development principles.
Scope of our activities:
- Construction machinery and equipment
- Mechanization of construction
- Building insulation
- Raw materials and building materials
- Coordination of construction machinery operator training in Poland
- Training for construction machinery operators
- Training for scaffolding assemblers
- Use of waste in building materials production
- Innovative manufacturing technologies for building materials
- Production lines for building materials
- Infrastructure vehicles
- Platform and lifting carts
- Light electric vehicles for personal and commercial use
- Electric cars
- Electric wheelchairs
The Construction New Technologies Center includes the following research laboratories:
New Construction Technologies Center
Building Materials
We conduct scientific research in the area of building products, analyzing their compliance with existing national and European standards and regulations. We assess and certify them for factory production control. We provide expertise and opinions on raw materials and building products and their applications.
Conduct research in new technologies for manufacturing building materials and using waste in building materials and products production.
- Develop technologies, select machinery, and provide design guidelines for processing rock raw materials for planned aggregate production assortment.
- Modernize technological processes in processing plants, particularly to improve product quality and achieve waste-free aggregate production.
- Research aggregate used in production: concrete, bituminous mixtures, hydraulically bound or unbound mixtures, mortar, bedding.
- Research hydrotechnical stone.
- Research building stone: blocks, raw plates, modular cladding, flooring, staircases.
- Research stone and concrete products: curbs, paving stones, road surface plates.
- Research certain properties of concrete products.
- Research building materials according to PN standards and non-standard
- assessments of properties and applications of aggregates, building stones, concrete, and other building products.
- Expertise and opinions on raw materials and building products and their applications.
- Advice and expertise on the study of aggregates, building raw materials, and mining waste in the accredited Raw Materials and Building Products Laboratory.
Research is conducted in the Laboratory, which is accredited by the Polish Centre for Accreditation - certificate no. AB 1344 in the scope of:
- chemical tests, chemical analysis of products and building materials;
- mechanical tests of products and building materials;
- physical properties tests of products and building materials;
- radiochemical tests and radiation.
New Construction Technologies Center
Building Insulation
The branch of Łukasiewicz – WIT in Katowice continues the activities of the Central Research and Development Center of the Building Insulation Industry, established in 1950, which was integrated into the structures of Łukasiewicz – WIT on 1st March 2013.
- Conduct research in the area of heat transport.
- Conduct research in the area of materials and building products, particularly in waterproofing and moisture insulation as well as thermal insulation.
- Implement new technologies in the area of materials and building products, especially in the field of waterproofing and thermal insulation.
- Develop opinions and expertise in properties and applications of raw materials and building materials in construction.
- Conduct trainings on properties and applications of raw materials and building materials, as well as requirements and evaluation of building products.
- Offer trainings on current European Union regulations in building insulation.
- Technical Assessments carried out by the Technical Assessment Team regarding thermal and waterproofing products and fiber-cement products. Provide information on the principles of technical assessment.
- Certification of product compliance and Factory Production Control – CE marking, building mark, voluntary compliance certification, CEN Keymark marking for thermal insulation products by the Quality and Certification Center.
New Construction Technologies Center
Material Technologies
- Management of non-hazardous waste.
- Management of mining, industrial, and municipal waste.
- Management of mineral waste in the production of building materials.
- Economic use of mining waste (gangue, coal slurries).
- Use of waste raw materials in road construction, earthworks, and hydro-technical construction.
- Dry cleaning (deshaling) of raw coal feed.
New Construction Technologies Center
Modular Construction
The need to ensure infrastructure and residential buildings by the construction sector, in accordance with increasing market demands, means that innovation development in this industry does not proceed at the expected pace.
Therefore, it is necessary to provide the construction industry with solutions that enable increased efficiency of its activities, and as a result, accelerate its transformation in the area of sustainable development. The concept of Construction 4.0, inspired by the Industry 4.0 idea, introduces a change in the way resources are designed, constructed, and operated by the construction sector.
In response to the construction sector’s needs related to the 4.0 transformation, our Center undertakes activities in the area of:
- Industrialization of production (physical value chains with modularization and prefabrication);
- Digital-physical systems (Internet of Things, automation, and robotics);
- Digital and computational technologies (BIM, scanning, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, big data, and data analysis, Blockchain);
- Modular construction - a research program implemented by one of the Research Groups, Sustainable Economy and Energy of Łukasiewicz.
