Entries by dirk.weinrich

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aerogel-it at the SwissBau 2026

Last week, Marc and Dirk visited the SwissBau 2026 in Basel for several days. It was great to meet lots of regional partners and contacts which normally are too far away from Osnabrück or Hamburg – such as Thomas Stahl and Julian Bäschlin from AeroPro Swiss GmbH and Sebastian von Stauffenberg from AGITEC AG. There […]

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Real-Life Example: The Triesch Residence, Berlin.

The climate change as well as surging energy prices create a pressing trend towards more energy efficiency in buildings to lower carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption for heating and cooling. While essential from the sustainability point of view, the drive towards more energy efficiency has a well visible and undesirable impact on building aesthetics: […]

Klimafestival 2025 and cellulose aerogel from straw

Last week, Eduard, Marc and Dirk presented aerogel-it at the Heinze Klimafestival 2025, a fair for sustainable construction in Berlin. It has been the third time for the aerogel-it team to attend this fair. As in the previous years, the fair was truly excellent with lots of interesting exhibits and visitors. Bio-based products such as […]

va-Q-tec and aerogel-it sign Memorandum of Understanding

In September, Marc and Dirk travelled to Würzburg for a very special occasion – to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Tobias Bock and Nicola Brzoska-Steinhaus of va-Q-tec Thermal Solutions GmbH. In their strategic collaboration, aerogel-it and va-Q-tec will develop new VIP solutions based on next-generation aerogel materials. Both parties see a lot of potential […]

AEROLIGNOCEL Project and M6 Meeting

In April 2025, the aerogel-it team started the public funded project AEROLIGNOCEL together with our partners Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Kahnt & Tietze GmbH and va-Q-tec Thermal Solutions GmbH. AEROLIGNOCEL is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Last week the partners came together TUHH to discuss results and further directions […]

Conclusion of BIOVIPWALL project

Recently, the aerogel-it team concluded the BIOVIPWALL open call project within the iClimabuilt project, funded by EC Horizon Europe were they investigated ultra-thin prefab concrete sandwich elements with bioaerogel VIP insulation! The background Prefab sandwich wall elements are interesting for both new construction as well as for serial renovation of existing buildings as they can […]