160 | L’HISTOIRE DE LA C ONSTRUCTION. UN MÉRIDIEN EUROPÉEN
Gesellschaft für Bautechnikgeschichte The primary task of the Gesellschaft für Bautechnikgeschichte (www.bautechnikgeschichte.org/) is investigating all the technical aspects pertaining to the history of building - in research and teaching as well as in the practice of building and heritage preservation. The various tasks include:
maintaining the scientific dialogue and fostering research by structural engineers, architects, preservationists, historians of technology, science and art pertaining to construction history, promoting the maintenance and documentation of material and immaterial records, practices and methods of construction history, integrating German research and teaching into the international scientific discourses, and establishing construction history in the curricula for degrees in civil engineering.
A special focus is directed at strengthening the integration of theory and practice by nurturing the dialogue between research and teaching on the one hand and on the other the knowledge, experience and enthusiasm of practitioners working in fields such as building archaeology, heritage preservation and building redevelopment. The biannual conventions of the society (2013 in Aachen, 2015 in Innsbruck) provide a communication platform; another means of achieving this is through local workshops, the first of which took place at Dresden Palace Chapel in autumn 2014 (Fig. 9).
Fig. 9: Workshop of the Gesellschaft für Bautechnikgeschichte at the rebuilt Dresden Palace Chapel, October 2014.