Institute

On 10.03.1966, Institut für Fenstertechnik e.V. (ift Rosenheim) was founded. The then senior building official and later Professor Erich Seifert is appointed Director of Institute. A detached house in Aisingerwies near Rosenheim provides the first rooms for the institute.

The move into a converted RAD barrack makes it possible to use the window test rig even in bad weather.

The company moves into new buildings with offices and a test laboratory.

The first Rosenheim Window and Façade Conference takes place. Within a very short time, they develop into one of the most important industry events.

Professor Josef Schmid takes over the management of ift Rosenheim according to the retirement of the first Director of Institute, Professor Erich Seifert.

Due to the number of employees, which has meanwhile grown to 40, an expansion of the institute is necessary. A new buildings on the "green meadow" creates ideal working conditions.

The institute expands again. The halls of the acquired neighboring building offer optimal space for the test of facades, doors and burglary resistance.

ift Rosenheim expands its variety of services to include fire tests at the Centre for Fire Testing in Nuremberg. A new facade test rig in Deggendorf for facades with a size of up to 10 x 14 meters is also added to the range of tests.

By integrating the institutes PTE and LSW, the forces in Rosenheim are bundled and the performance increased. The aim of the merger was to improve service for clients and members by optimizing structures and processes and making flexible use of the increased resources and competencies.

The previous Deputy Director of Institute, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Ulrich Sieberath, and later Professor, takes over as Director of Institute at ift Rosenheim. Dr. Jochen Peichl becomes managing director.

The existing building at the main site in Theodor-Gietl-Straße in Rosenheim is being extensively modernized. An extension is being built with new offices and a large training room. The ventilated curtain wall is equipped with photovoltaic modules in thin-film technology.

As a subsidiary of ift Rosenheim, the new company ift MessTec GmbH will be launched on 01.08.2016. The decades of experience of ift Rosenheim enables the planning and design of modern and reliable test rigs and test laboratories.

On 08.06.2016, the ift Technology Centre (TZ) in Rosenheim is inaugurated. With an investment volume of 7.5 million euros, one of the most modern test centers for construction elements has been created on an area of 3,000 m². Large-format doors, facades and lightweight construction walls with dimensions of up to 8 x 5 meters are tested here for mechanical durability, burglar resistance, wind load, air, wind and watertightness as well as for smoke protection and fire resistance.

In order to provide customers in other European countries with ift services more quickly and flexibly, the two companies ift Hellas P.C. and ift Hrvatska d.o.o. were founded in 2018. ift Hellas with Managing Director Dimitrios Moustakidis serves ift customers in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Bulgaria. Hrvoje Komac (Managing Director ift Hrvatska) and his team are active in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Slovenia as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The location "ift West" in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, which was officially opened on 21.11.2018, improves the customer proximity in Norht Rhine-Westphalia and the northwest of Germany. The ift building "Die Alte Wache" on the grounds of Rheda Castle serves as a base for ift West for the technical coordination of test specimens, tests on company-owned test rigs as well as other services.

Professor Jörn P. Lass takes over the management of the Institute for Window Technology e.V. from Professor Ulrich Sieberath.

ift Rosenheim is notified as a test and certification body for respiratory protective devices as well as filtering half masks with/without valves according to EN 149. This means that particle filtering half masks (FFP1, FFP2 and FFP3) can be tested, certified and monitored.

The inauguration of the ift Laboratory for Building Acoustics and Facades was on 09.06.2021 in Rosenheim, in close proximity to the ift Technology Centre. On 1,440 m², ift Rosenheim can optimally test the building acoustics characteristics as well as air and watertightness, wind load, impact resistance, earthquake resistance and alternating climatic loads, especially for large-format construction elements.

Michael Breckl-Stock (Dipl.-Ing. (FH), M.Eng., MBA) takes over the task of technical managing director of ift Rosenheim and thus the responsibility for all aspects of testing and technical service.

Over 700 participants came to Rosenheim for the 50th edition of the industry get-together. Despite the anniversary, the 2023 event was fully focussed on the important topics of the present and future. The focus was on the motto "climate.safe.building", highlighted by Prof Jörn P. Lass, with a new evaluation system for sustainable and climate-resilient building products.