Building & Living: a platform for networking, synthesis, and transfer
Background and goals
There is a lack of affordable housing with a good quality of life in Germany – studies speak of a shortage of up to 800,000 homes. In lower income groups in particular, one in five people live in too little space. In addition, the building sector accounts for around 60 percent of global resource consumption, more than 50 percent of global emissions of climate-damaging gases and over 35 percent of global energy consumption. Therefore, transforming the building sector is crucial in promoting a resource-conserving economy and combating global warming. Adapting the built environment to changing conditions is crucial. This includes designing climate-resilient cities, accommodating changing lifestyles, and moving towards smart cities. Additionally, the German government aims to create affordable, high-quality housing.
For that purpose, the Building & Living Platform focuses on developing and evaluating solutions with a particular focus on the importance of affordability, sustainability, and quality (essential living comfort). This is accomplished by bringing together relevant players in the industrial ecosystem (networking), combining social science knowledge with natural and technical science knowledge (synthesis), and stimulating concrete economic activity (transfer). The analysis evaluates solutions based on their transferability and scalability, with an emphasis on existing building structures and their potential for sustainable transformation. The experience exchange will occur in different working groups, accompanied by innovative dialogue formats such as the implementation of citizens’ councils and practical workshops. Furthermore, existing real-world laboratories in Germany in this field will be mapped. The dialogue will result in proposed options for adapting the policy framework.
Members of the Stakeholder Advisory Board
Leadership
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johann Dietrich Wörner
President, acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering
Members of the Advisory Board
- Prof. Ph.D. Dr. phil. Dr. techn. Konrad Bergmeister
Head of the Institute of Structural Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Curbach
Director of the Institute of Concrete Structures, Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) - Dr. Wolfgang Dienemann
Director Global R&D, Heidelberg Materials AG - Prof. Lydia Haack
President of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects - Prof. Dr. Melanie Jaeger-Erben
Chair of Sociology of Technology and the Environment, Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg - Prof. Dr. Meike Jipp
Divisional Board Member for Energy and Transport at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) - Yakup Kaya
Head of energy innovation Vonovia SE - Prof. Dr. Carsten Kühl
Head of the German Institute of Urban Affairs gGmbH - Dr. Christine Lemaitre
Executive Officer at DGNB German Sustainable Building Council - Prof. Dr. Martina Löw
Head of the Department of Sociology of Planning and Sociology of Architecture, Berlin University of Technology - Hilmar von Lojewski
Councillor for Urban Development, Association of German Cities - Prof. Dr. (Univ. Florenz) Elisabeth Merk
City of Munich’s Planning Director - Barbara Metz
Executive Director of Environmental Action Germany - Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Christa Reicher
Chair of Urban Design and Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism, RWTH Aachen University - Dr.-Ing. Norbert Schiedeck
CEO, Vaillant Group - Prof. Dr. sc. Techn. Mike Schlaich
Head of the Department of Conceptual and Structural Design, Berlin University of Technology - Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Wagner
Head of the Department of Building Science and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Frank Zimmermann
CTO Window Solutions, REHAU Industries SE & Co. KG
Guests
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building
- DLR Projektträger