German Sustainability Science Summit
AdvanceAEC at The German Sustainability Science Summit 2021
The German Sustainability Science Summit 2021 will take place as an interactive virtual online event on 8 & 9 July 2021. The summit continues the bi-annual series of the German Future Earth Summits organised by the German Committee Future Earth (Deutsches Komitee für Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, DKN). The summit will provide a platform for exchange on the latest scientific findings in the field of sustainability research. It will cover a range of topics from normativity, epistemology and attainability of sustainable development over extreme events, resilience, social cohesion and well-being to climate change, biodiversity, diet and health. Besides scientific sessions with presentations and discussions, panel discussions, an interactive poster session and other interactive formats will provide room for exchange, discussion and networking across the international science community working on sustainability related topics – within and across disciplines.
Participation in the Summit will be free of charge. https://www.dkn-future-earth.org/activities/sustainability_science_summit_2021/index.php.en
Participation AdvanceAEC
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Manfred Bischoff, (Institut für Baustatik und Baudynamik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; SFB 1244; AdvanceAEC ) will host a Session SSII7 – Sustainable Planning and Construction on Day 2: 09 July 2021 (Friday) 13:20 – 14:20 CEST; Scientific Session Block II (Parallel Sessions). AAEC will participate with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Curbach, (Institut für Massivbau, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, SFB/TRR 280; AAEC).
Speakers (in alphabetical order)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Curbach Institut für Massivbau Technische Universität Dresden Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Benze Professur Städtebau und Theorie der Stadt Hochschule München Prof. Dr. Werner Lang Lehrstuhl für energieeffizientes und nachhaltiges Planen und Bauen Technische Universität München Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dierk Raabe Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH Düsseldorf
Abstract
The built environment is of central ecological, economic, social and cultural relevance. The building industry consumes about 40 % of global resources and energy supply. Over the next 35 years, buildings for additional 2.6 billion people need to be constructed. Thus, 8 out of 17 goals in the UN 2030 Sustainability Agenda relate to construction industry. While construction is intrinsically connected to the disciplines of architecture and civil engineering, a strongly multidisciplinary effort, including non-technical disciplines like politics and sociology, is required to tackle these challenges by developing new technologies. Carbon lean production, recycling and circular economy, enhanced productivity through digitalization, reduction of mass and embodied energy as well as identifying synergies and acceleration effects on one side and potential conflicts of objectives on the other side are typical challenges. The session exemplarily describes related research efforts on three levels: 1. Small scale, material level: Sustainable Metallurgy and Metals. 2. Medium scale, structural level: New Technologies for Sustainable Construction. 3. Large scale level: Resilient transformation of urban spaces
Format
We will provide keynotes on each level, followed by a panel discussion. Expected outcomes: Beyond sharing information on ongoing fundamental research efforts, we hope to find new partners that join us in our mission. Moreover, we strive to identify new fields of research that contribute to the aim of sustainable planning and construction.
Summit Program
https://www.dkn-future-earth.org/activities/sustainability_science_summit_2021/program/index.php.en
Speaker information
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Bischoff
Manfred Bischoff is a full professor of Institute for Structural Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He received his Doctoral Degree 1999 from the same University and his habilitation 2005 from the Technical University of Munich. In 1999 – 2000 he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2019 he is a Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC and since 2021 he is Deputy Spokesperson of SFB 1244.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Curbach
Manfred Curbach studied from 1977 to 1982 Civil Engineering at the Technische Universität Dortmund, specialising in structural engineering. From 1982 to 1988, Manfred Curbach was Josef Eibl’s research assistant, first at the University of Dortmund and later at the University of Karlsruhe, where he also received his doctorate in 1987. Since August 1994 Manfred Curbach holds the professorship for the Institut für Massivbau (Institute of Concrete Structures) at the Technische Universität Dresden. For more than 25 years, Manfred Curbach has been working on ecologically significantly improved alternatives to reinforced concrete. The resulting highly innovative carbon concrete reduces resource requirements by 50 to 80 % and at the same time reduces CO 2 emissions by the same order of magnitude. He was spokesperson of the SFB 528 for 12 years, spokesperson of the SPP “Lightweight Construction with Concrete” for more than 6 years, has been spokesperson of the BMBF Twenty20 consortium “C3 – Carbon Concrete Composite” since 2014 and spokesperson of the SFB/TRR 280 since 2020. Awards, beside others: On 15 November 2011, Manfred Curbach received an honorary doctorate from the Universität Kaiserslautern In 2016 Manfred Curbach received the Deutscher Zukunftspreis together with Chokri Cherif and Peter Offermann, which is awarded by the German Federal President.
Quote: “When a sector of the economy generates about 6% of gross domestic product and is responsible for 40% of energy consumption and 25% of climate-damaging greenhouse gases, action must be taken as quickly as possible, sustainably, efficiently and creatively”
