Matthias Tietze

Matthias Tietze is a doctoral candidate in Civil Engineering and Building Economics at the Institute of concrete structure of the Technical University Dresden, Germany. He completed his Master in Building economics and Innovation management at University of applied sciences in Leipzig after obtaining his Diplom degree as a industrial engineer in civil engineering at University of applied sciences in Leipzig, Germany.

His research is on the market readyness of new materials especially "Carbon reinforced concrete" in the building sector. With his work, he supports the large-scale research project C3 - Carbon Concrete Composite within the framework of the C3 economic efficiency project, in order to establish carbon concrete as the construction method of the future. Above all, the marketability of carbon concrete as an economical alternative to reinforced concrete is being worked out. The investigation of the value chain, its change and the mechanisms of the construction industry in dealing with innovations are important indicators for marketability. A representative survey with a decision-based conjoint analysis will be carried out in order to identify the willingness to pay for this novel Material in its various fields of application. The resulting user preferences should in turn provide information on the economically necessary properties of carbon concrete and the adaptation of the value chain itself.

The construction industry itself is a very conservative industry that reacts very sluggishly to innovations, but in order to create the introduction of carbon concrete, the analysis of the construction sector and the market behavior is important in order to make carbon concrete and its outstanding technical properties economically usable.