TU Berlin and BAM Establish Joint Institute for Safe, Digital, and Sustainable Process Engineering

The Department of Process and Plant Safety at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) and the Division of Dynamics and Operation of Technical Systems at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) opened the Berlin Joint Institute for Plant Safety and process engineering on July 8, 2026. The joint research platform aims to make process engineering plants safer, more sustainable, and more efficient in the future—from digital models and pilot plants to full-scale trials.

Hydrogen, digitalization, and sustainable production are posing new safety challenges for the chemical and process engineering industries. New processes must be developed more quickly, resources used more efficiently, and risks assessed at an early stage. This is precisely where the Joint Institute comes in: It bridges two disciplines that have traditionally been considered separately—systems process engineering, with a focus on the design, operation, and optimization of process plants, and process and plant safety.