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Our chair had two reasons to celebrate at the prestigious World Sustainable Built Environment (WSBE) Conference 2024: two of our scientific papers were honored with Best Paper Awards. Both papers are outstanding contributions to sustainable development in the buildings sector.

As part of this year's Interdisciplinary Project (IDP), students on the Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building (RNB) course presented their innovative and sustainable approaches for a possible transformation of the “Alte Mensa” building on the research campus in Garching.

Many of the participants described the RNB Connect event on Friday last week as a successful evening. Eight graduates of TUM's Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building (RNB) degree program shared their professional experiences and career paths after graduation on the seventh floor of the Oskar…

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) successfully celebrated ist recent Sustainability Day 2024, organized by the TUM Sustainability Office with Prof. Werner Lang, Vice President of Sustainable Transformation. We were happy to have Sarah Billington as a keynote speaker, a renowned scholar from…

Visit the brochure "Affordable climate-friendly construction: Cost-benefit assessment of life cycle measures"

In the summer semester, we are offering the lecture series "Together for the building turnaround" with 12 universities and Architects4Future.

The creation of affordable housing poses challenges for local authorities, developers and planners, particularly in the context of climate change. The need to adapt buildings to changing climatic conditions is often perceived as an additional burden. We invite you to the presentation of our…

Join the City Indicator Project Poster exhibition on February 21, 2024, from 5 to 7 PM in the “immatriculation hall” (Room 0136, Immatrikulationshalle) of the TUM main campus.

More green through urban planning, neighborhood work and activation of urban society

Our master’s graduate, Fatma Deghim, has been honored with the Johannes B. Ortner Prize at TU Munich 2023 for her master's thesis titled “A data-driven approach for predicting occupant thermal comfort in offices.” Fatma Deghim had the privilege of receiving the Johannes B. Ortner Foundation award…