Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

The obstacles associated with shopping, such as shipping costs or the time needed to go to the shop, are crucial to the individual choice of where to shop. When deciding between online shopping and local shopping, personal opinion on purchasing security, environmental protection aspects, and work conditions plays a role. This is found by a study using microeconometric models at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Some of the results of the representative study funded by the German Research Foundation are reported in Papers in Applied Geography and Raumforschung und Raumordnung.

The Munich-based WACKER Group is supporting a project by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to build up an innovation platform for sustainable construction. The two partners today unveiled an agreement to this effect. The project being funded, known as "ChangeLab! WACKER / KIT Innovation Platform for Pioneering Sustainable Construction", is aimed both at the institute's students and at architects, engineers and construction experts seeking to learn about and discuss new ideas and c...