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For the new Atlas Tragwerke, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Lang and Patricia Schneider-Marin have written the chapter "Efficiency and Sustainability of Materials and Structures". [read more]

The Doctoral Day offers our PhD students an opportunity to present the last stand of their doctoral work and receive feedback on their dissertations. This platform promotes the exchange of ideas between all PhD students, both internal and external, and other research associates of the Institute. The… [read more]

In the podcast series: "Sustainability. Time to Change" there is now also a feature about our research project "Green City of the Future". Dr. Simone Linke presents the inter- and transdisciplinary project and explains how climate-adapted planning can make our cities livable in the… [read more]

On June 10, 2021, the 2nd workshop of the research project on climate-adapted housing took place. [read more]

Benjamin Slosharek, graduate at our master’s course for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Building, won his third award for his master’s thesis " Evaluation ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit von Hochbauprojekten anhand von Bauprozessen“: the 1WVPM Promotion Award. [read more]

The Fact Sheet: Like many other cities, Munich is surrounded by a green belt on the outskirts of the city. There are mainly agriculturally used areas, but also forests, heaths and popular excursion destinations such as bathing lakes. The fact sheet "Potentials of the Munich Green Belt for… [read more]

Time for an update of our website! [read more]

The first joint meeting of the focal area "Built Environment" within the interdisciplinary research network "CirculaTUM" took place under the leadership of the Chair of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Design and Building. The kick-off meeting served to get to know each other and to develop a common… [read more]

New project “emission-free building sector” investigates lifecycle-based opportunities for minimizing and absorbing emissions in the building sector. [read more]

At SimAUD 2021 a method for real-time simulation of shading by trees using so-called ‘voxels’ was presented. The aim is to split the calculation into pre-processing and simulation phases in order to implement this in an interactive tool. [read more]