Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBPTogether, developed and inhabited environments, spaces and those using them, people and their needs, economic conditions and our natural resources form a complex, multi-layered network. Research and development activities in this complex environment focus on solutions for people, without neglecting all the other aspects of this network. In our well-equipped, state-of-the-art analytical laboratory, we can study a wide range of organic and inorganic parameters of diverse solid, liquid and gaseous matrices: indoor and outdoor air, exhaust air from test chambers, drinking, ground and surface water, eluates from the ground and building products, extracts and solutions containing decomposed substances from the ground and building products.
The principal methods we use are liquid and gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. These enable substances to be reliably identified and accurately quantified. Accredited standard procedures and our customers’ company standards serve as a basis for this. To address specific problems of our partners and within the scope of research projects, we develop extraction and testing techniques tailored to the needs of our customers for defined matrices and parameters.