The Hanseatic city of Lübeck, with its outstanding stock of brick masonry buildings up to 800 years old, offers an outstanding setting for the specialist meeting. Lübecks location in Northern Europe is particularly attractive for players from Scandinavia. The conference is therefore being jointly organized by scientists from the TH Lübeck and the University of Lund in Sweden. The venue is the MUK with its professional environment. The conference will be accompanied by an annual meeting of the German Committee for Masonry Structures and an evening for networking between research, industry, politics and planners from Schleswig-Holstein and the neighbouring federal states. Participation in the conference is open to all interested parties and the conference language is English.