On 1 June 2017, the Chair of Building Physics of Faculty 2: Civil and Environmental Engineering became the Institute of Acoustics and Building Physics (IABP). The IABP is dedicated to the current challenges of the sustainable design of our built environment. With a competent team and in interdisciplinary cooperation with national and international partners, scientific questions are answered and new solutions and methods developed. The complex knowledge and findings flow directly into the well-founded, committed and innovative teaching.