Education and committee work

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Committee work

2022 Jury member for the ReNeReB-BAUPREIS 2022. award for resource-efficient & circular buildings.
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2017 Jury member for the Wissenschaftsladen Bonn in the student competition "Design of a near-natural roofing on the grounds of the Green Play City Bonn" at Alanus University
2012 Judge for the urban planning competition "Resource-efficient building and living with Factor X in Eschweiler". Info
2010 – 2012
Member of the expert and working group Certification of Urban Quarters of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB)
2008 – 2009
Coordination of the Ak Nachhaltiges Bauen of the forestry and timber sector
2006 – 2009 Round Table Sustainable Building of the BMVBS/BBR
2006 – 2008 DIN Standardisation Committee Sustainable Building

Expert workshops

(as of 2017, this section will no longer be updated)

2016

28 January at the Federal Environment Agency in Berlin: Expert workshop "Scenarios and Leitbilder für eine ressourcenleichte Gesellschaft" with participants from the field of municipalities & infrastructure. Organiser: Z_punkt Köln, Wuppertal Institute and sociodimensions on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety and the Federal Environment Agency.

2014 Participation in the symposium "Ephemeral Urban Development - New Scope for Action in Planning Culture" at the TU Berlin
2013 Participation in 3 expert workshops and world cafés as part of the EMiS accompanying research for the "Electromobility Model Regions" of the Urban Development Institute of the University of Stuttgart on the following topics:
- "Housing and eCar-Sharing" at the University of Stuttgart
- "Municipal eFleet Management" at the Düsseldorf Municipality
- "Energy Living and eMobility" at the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Project website: www.uni-stuttgart.de/...
2013 Participation in the expert workshop "Sustainable Urban Development" of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation in Stuttgart
2010 Participation in the expert workshop "The social dimension of sustainable neighbourhoods and housing estates" at the Federal Office of Housing, Grenchen (CH), organiser: Institute for Social Planning and Urban Development Prof. Dr. Matthias Drilling
2009 Participation in the DIFU seminar "Energy and resource-efficient settlement development" in Berlin
2009 Participation in the MORO expert workshop "Spatial demands, planning instruments, value creation" in the context of the research field "Strategic integration of renewable energies in regional energy concepts" in Bonn
2007/2008 Participation in the expert workshop IMPROVING RAW MATERIAL PRODUCTIVITY AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION. Stakeholder dialogues in the raw material system copper, in the steel sector and in the demand field construction and housing. Implementation: Wuppertal Institute in cooperation with the IZT - Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin and the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production. Client: Federal Environment Agency (UBA)
2007/2008 Participation in the expert workshop ErKlim of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) Download the final report pdf
2004/2005 Interreg project: Sustainable planning and building on the Upper Rhine (www.tri-plan.net) TRUZ Weil on the Rhine
2004 MOBILANZ Unit for Cognitive and Environmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
2003/2004 Working group Sustainability assessment of settlements of the Aachen Foundation Kathy Beys
2003/2004 LAiV: Stocktaking and further development of teaching and training in transport (BMB+F joint project)
2003 Participation in the expert workshop "Sustainable, ecological urban and residential construction - A guide for municipalities and planners". ZEBAU Hamburg

Conference and meeting attendance

Total: 60 conferences, symposia, trade fairs and congresses since 1996.
(as of 2017, this section will no longer be updated)

2017 Participation in the KlimaExpo.NRW network meeting in Gelsenkirchen
2016 Participation in the symposium "New Urban Quarters - Trier: The New Petrisberg" Organiser: University of Trier, City of Trier, DASL (German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning) and EGP GmbH in Trier
2015 Cologne: Participation in the European Congress for Efficient Building with Wood (EBH 2015)
Bonn: 12th BMBF Forum for Sustainability. Flagship Initiative Effectiveness for Cities, Economy, Energy Systems
"Chamber on site" event in Nettersheim: "Transforming instead of historicising". Organiser: Chamber of Architects NRW
Westerwald Wood Days 2015 in Oberhonnefeld-Gierend (RLP)
Gemünd: "EnerKom+ 2015 - Energy Competence Show North Eifel".
Bonn: 8th Expert Conference of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities "Municipalities Active for Climate Protection. Municipal strategies for coping with climate impacts".
2014 Berlin: 4th University Day of the National Urban Development Policy "Sustainable Housing - Dialogue between Science and Practice
Cologne: 16/17 Oct. 2014 Cologne: 7th European Congress (EBH) Building with Wood in Urban Areas
Nettersheim: 7 October 2014 Impulse event "Architecture and Eifel Building Culture
Zülpich: Conference "Softwood in the forest and timber value chain" Organiser: Holzkompetenzzentrum Rheinland
Zülpich: Conference "Urban timber construction" Organiser: Holzkompetenzzentrum Rheinland
Berlin: Symposium "Ephemeral Urban Development - New Scope for Action in Planning Culture" at TU Berlin
2013 Mainz: Conference "Energy Efficiency in Residential Quarters. Organiser: German Association for Housing, Urban Development and Spatial Planning (Deutscher Verband für Wohnungswesen, Städtebau und Raumordnung e.V.) in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS).
Berlin: Successfully shaping military conversion. Organiser: BMVBS and BBSR
2012 Wuppertal: Conference "150 Solar and Climate Protection Housing Estates in North Rhine-Westphalia". Organiser: EnergyAgency.NRW
Bonn: BBSR final event "Real Estate and Housing Strategies and Potentials for Climate Change (ImmoKlima)".
Cologne: Specialist event "New housing in cooperatives" at the German Association of Cities. Organiser: Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) in cooperation with the City of Cologne and with the support of the German Association of Cities, as well as with numerous representatives of housing cooperatives, municipalities, research and project developers.
Darmstadt: Conference "EU 2020 climate targets - new challenges and opportunities for cities and regions" Conference for city administrations and local energy suppliers
Gelsenkirchen: 10th Housing Projects Day NRW 2012
2011 Darmstadt: Symposium "Building Communities. New forms of housing in existing and new buildings" at the Schader Forum
Bonn: 4th DStGB Expert Conference "Municipalities Active for Climate Protection
2010 Tübingen: EXWOST Conference Urban Redevelopment West
Cologne: Sustainable neighbourhood development - On the impact of a normative concept. Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Neighbourhood Research of the German Geographical Society
Bonn: BMU and DIFU conference "Successfully shaping municipal climate protection!
Cologne: Conference 3rd European Congress on Energy Efficient Building with Wood - EBH 2010
2009 Garmisch: Conference "15th International Timber Construction Forum IHF 2009
Cologne: Symposium 2nd European Congress on Energy-Efficient Building with Wood - EBH 2009
Dortmund: EXWOST Conference Urban Redevelopment West
Nuremberg: Conference "2nd WOOD CONSTRUCTION PRACTICAL DAY. Prefabrication with wood and wood-based materials - flexible, ecological and cost-effective".
Bonn: Conference of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities "Municipalities Active for Climate Protection - Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving" at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Biberach: Conference "2nd Biberach Timber Construction Practice of the Wood Construction & Finishing Competence Centre
Straubing: 16th C.A.R.M.E.N. Forum "Wood: sustainable building and material".
Potsdam: INNOVA WOODBOARD 2009
2008 Berlin: Baukunst im Dialog "Sustainability and political will". Swiss-German event series on the sustainable design of living space
Mulhouse: International trade congress "énergivie 2008
Berlin: 7th European Conference Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning "Sun and Sense" at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS)
Stuttgart: Consense - International Congress and Exhibition for Sustainable Building
Cologne: International Conference "Car-free Living. Experiences of realised projects"
2007 Zurich: 3rd International Conference on Life Cycle Management
Düsseldorf: Seminar "Epiqr - Sustainable Real Estate for Municipalities
Düsseldorf: ILS NRW - Workshop "Sustainability of investment decisions in the real estate and housing industry".
Berlin: BMVBS Congress "Sustainable Planning, Construction and Operation of Buildings
2006 Dessau: HBS Cluster Meeting Spatial Sciences
Hofgeismar: Environmental Consultation of the Protestant Academy "Models of sustainable living - Living in harmony with creation".
2005 Hamburg: Study tour of the Association for Housing Promotion vwbf Austria
Bonn: Life Cycle Data Network "Status Seminar 2005
2003 Bochum: "Urban 2003 - Urban Spaces of Tomorrow" Conference
Hamburg: Environmental Psychologists' and Sociologists' Congress "Places of Sustainable Development
Karlsruhe: Inner development before outer development. Strategies, Concepts and Instruments". Institute for Urban and Regional Planning ISL
Aachen: Pt Conference "Urban Development Backwards" at the Chair of Planning Theory and Urban Planning
2000 Bonn: 6th European Conference on Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning
Erlangen: Federal Ecology Meeting of the University Groups
1999 Karlsruhe: Urban Development Congress "Efficient Development
Kassel-Witzenhausen: Federal Ecology Meeting of the University Groups
1998 Rostock: Federal Ecology Meeting of the University Groups
Bonn: 5th European Conference on Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning
1996 Cologne: Federal Ecology Meeting of the University Groups
Saarbrücken: Conference "Models for ecological building - evaluation of realised settlements and individual houses".

Honorary posts

2016
Cooperation with the housing project group "Lieblingsleben" Bonn

2008 – 2014
Förderverein Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung e.V. Founding member, Board of Directors, Treasurer
2001 – 2014
Establishment and coordination of the interdisciplinary NSE - Sustainable Urban Development Network. Through the NSE, doctoral students, post-docs and scientists from universities in German-speaking countries in particular networked. All spatial science disciplines were represented. The most strongly represented faculty were architects (approx. 50%), landscape architects, geographers, landscape, urban and spatial planners.

2006 to 2014: Coordination, public relations, conception, organisation and multiple moderation of nine PhD colloquia at universities in Berlin, Darmstadt, Weimar, Harburg, Stuttgart, Dortmund, Munich, Karlsruhe and Wuppertal. Co-organisation of the NSE symposium "urban transitions" 2011 at the University of Wuppertal and 2007 at the University of Kassel.

2004 – 2009
Collaboration in the interdisciplinary Spatial Sciences Cluster of the Hans Böckler Foundation
1998 – 2001
Nationwide Student working group on sustainable building in university teaching (StABiL) with interdisciplinary participants from 60 universities in German-speaking countries. Organisation of nationwide seminars and a symposium in Hamburg, as well as lectures and excursions
1996 - 2002
Ak ÖkoBau e.V. (Working Group for Ecological Building) University of Karlsruhe
Founding of the working group and the association, board activities. Implementation of lecture series, workshops at the university. Conceptual design and organisation of an interdisciplinary seminar and semester design for the construction of a student dormitory together with civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and economics students.
1995 - 2002
Car-free Solar Settlement Karlsruhe (ASKA) e.V.
Founding of the association, board activities, press and public relations work, design, study and competition work for various building areas in Karlsruhe. Development of a financing concept and finding a legal form
1992/1993
Cooperation at the Environmental Festival Kick-off with star bike tours
1991/1992
Head of the Solar Working Group of the BUND Regional Association Freiburg
1989/1990
Collaboration with the BUND local group Rheinfelden

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