Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building

To achieve climate targets, adapt cities to changing conditions, and reduce systemic dependencies, a sustainable transformation of the construction sector is essential. Students in the Master’s program Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building (M.Sc.) therefore learn to analyze and optimize construction projects with regard to their use of resources and their societal impact, and to design them in line with social, ecological, and economic requirements. The program is highly interdisciplinary, integrating building physics, building services engineering, building construction, and life cycle assessment. Students develop a holistic perspective on the design, planning, construction, and operation of buildings. In doing so, they consider all spatial scales (region, city, district, building, building subsystem, component, material), all actors along the value chain (e.g., legislators, standards committees and expert panels, planning offices, permitting authorities, clients, planners, engineers, construction companies), and all phases of the life cycle (production, operation, deconstruction, recycling). This enables them to acquire the expertise required to implement resource-efficient buildings and districts using innovative technologies and digital tools. Graduates of the program are experts in sustainability in the built environment. They are capable of developing solutions at the interface between people, buildings, infrastructure, and the environment to realize resource-efficient and sustainable buildings, and of optimizing resource demand while taking ecological, economic, and sociocultural factors into account. They are therefore excellently qualified both for further academic research and for positions of responsibility in the construction industry or the public sector. For a comprehensive description of the program, please refer to the degree program documentation: Degree program documentation for the Master’s program in Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building (PDF) Program structure The first semester of the degree programme serves above all to provide fundamental knowledge in the four skill areas : Architecture, city and landscape Building services engineering and renewable energies Building physics and energy efficiency Building technology and life cycle engineering The obligatory and elective modules offered here ensure that all of the programme’s graduates have the core skills forming the basis for resource efficient, sustainable construction. In preparation for the interdisciplinary project, graduates of the Bachelor’s programme in Architecture attend the module entitled “Physical principles of energy-efficient construction”, and graduates with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering attend the module entitled “Aspects of sustainable urbanism”. The above core skills are expanded upon in further obligatory modules in the second semester of the degree programme. The central element of this programme is the “Interdisciplinary Project”, in which the skills obtained so far are implemented and expanded in teams with an interdisciplinary composition (e.g. B.A. AR, B.Sc. BI and B.Sc. UI) in a design-orientated project. The focus here is placed on the interaction between the analysis, for instance of the life cycle-based resource consumption of alternative solutions, and on the synthesis in the context of the design-orientated development of energy concepts in the energy retrofitting of existing buildings and construction of new ones. In this context, the obligatory module entitled “

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