Official material testing institute of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

Official material testing institute of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
legal form	Foundation under private law
founding	January 1, 1987
Seat	Bremen , Germany
management	Hans-Werner Zoch (Director)
Branch	material testing
Website	www.mpa-bremen.de

Material testing institute Bremen

The Official Material Testing Institute of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (MPA Bremen) emerged from the State Office for Building Materials Testing of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and was established by decree on January 1, 1987 at the Institute for Materials Technology Foundation . MPA Bremen has been a division of the Leibniz Institute for Material-Oriented Technologies - IWT since 2018. It is subject to the supervision of the Senator for Environment, Building and Transport, as well as the Senator for Science, Health and Consumer Protection of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

The MPA Bremen is an independent testing laboratory and is a member of the Verband der Materialprüfungsanstalten e. V. and accredited by the German Accreditation Service (DAkkS).

location

The MPA Bremen at Paul-Feller Straße 1 is located in the center of Bremen on the left bank of the Weser in the Neustadt district not far from Bremen Airport.

history

The origin was the State Building Materials Testing Institute at the building yard in Werderstrasse in Bremen from 1917. The building materials laboratory for civil engineering, founded in 1927 in Langemarckstrasse in Bremen, was transferred in 1942 with the State Building Materials Testing Institute to the Building Materials Testing Institute of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, based in Langemarckstrasse. In 1958 it became the institute for building materials testing and building ground issues and in 1963 the state office for building materials testing (LAB). The company's headquarters were moved to Paul-Feller Strasse 1 in 1968. In 1986 the former Institute for Materials Technology (IWT) took over the tasks of the former state office for building materials testing. With the expansion of the official test assignment to metals , the facility was converted into a materials testing institute. In addition, research activities could now be carried out. The MPA Bremen has had its current name since the facility decree of 1987. The MPA Bremen now consists of four independent departments: Metallic materials, construction , analytical building material microscopy, and microbiology .

tasks

The MPA Bremen is active with four departments in the field of materials and building material testing as well as damage analysis.

Department Metallic Materials and Components: The Department Metallic Materials and components - damage analysis is in the form of material tests and expert opinions in the field of materials science working for engineering. In addition, the department deals with all metallic building materials and materials.

Construction department : The construction department is active in the areas of building material tests, monitoring, certifications and reports for almost the entire area of construction. In the construction department, MPA Bremen operates a recognized and notified certification body for construction products. The certification body of the MPA Bremen works according to DIN EN ISO / IEC 17065 and is accredited for this.

Building material microscopy department : The analytical building material microscopy department was set up in the MPA in 1989 as a research group. The core area is the investigation of damage processes on building materials and materials using microanalytical methods. In addition to analysis in the event of damage, a focus is on conservation research in close cooperation with restorers, preservationists and architects.

Microbiology Department : In applied research projects, the Microbiology Department is dedicated to the fundamental elucidation of microbiological processes in the settlement and destruction of materials, the investigation and analysis of microbial damage ( biocorrosion ) to materials and the development of concepts to contain or prevent such damage.