ZEBAU – Centre for Energy, Construction, Architecture and Environment – invites you to the "Efficient Buildings 2024" conference in Hamburg on 16 September 2024. Held at the Free Academy of Arts, the event will showcase national and regional strategies for achieving a sustainable, energy-efficient building stock by 2045. Through real-world projects spanning sustainable site development, historic preservation, and timber construction, participants will explore and discuss concrete solutions and their potential impact.

Christian Stolte of the German Energy Agency (dena) will open the conference by examining Germany's regulatory framework and exploring what the government's building sector targets mean for progress through 2030. Subsequent sessions will address Hamburg's latest heat planning strategy, circular design and timber construction practices, and the "CO₂-Neutral World Heritage Speicherstadt Hamburg" initiative. The program also highlights life cycle assessment approaches for buildings and sustainable material choices in construction. The conference concludes with a panel discussion featuring Hamburg's Environment Senator Jens Kerstan.

The program continues with an online workshop on 26 September 2024, dedicated to circular building practices. Expert speakers, including Ludger Dederich from Rottenburg University of Applied Forest Sciences (HFR), will examine current approaches to circular construction using innovative timber solutions.

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