FFin Congress 2023

The topic of the energy transition has also been occupying the scientists of the Frankfurt Research Institute for Architecture × Civil Engineering × Geomatics (FFin) for quite some time. The most recent topic at the FFin Congress in 2019 was an update on the energy transition and, in particular, developments and findings for the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan area. Due to global (energy) crises, and in view of the high CO2 emissions in the construction sector, the focus has also increasingly shifted to existing buildings. Here, questions about the energy requirements of the existing building stock depend on concepts that require a conversion of the heat and power supply of the buildings with technologies that no longer consider each building individually, but link network technologies. Sustainable buildings must also be ensured when constructing or refurbishing existing buildings; the essential framework condition for urban development is inner development before outer development and the demand for minimizing the energy that has to be used to create sustainable buildings and infrastructures. Topics such as efficiency, consistency and sufficiency are equally in demand as sustainability approaches and must be applied holistically in planning. Compact urban structures and compatible densification should provide for energy-saving potential. Nevertheless, structural, functional and social diversity and attractive inner-city public spaces are to be ensured in metropolitan areas.

This is the field of tension in which the FFin conference on energy transition and energy savings will take place, looking at the key findings from politics, research, the construction and housing industry and the practice of energy suppliers from the past year 2022/2023 and gathering experience and impulses for the sustainable energy transition.

In addition to a review of how the political and legal framework conditions have changed, what experiences exist in residential construction and energy-efficient refurbishment, and how the energy suppliers have dealt with the changed legal and economic framework conditions, innovative possibilities and existing obstacles to a successful transfer of knowledge from research to practice will be debated with a view to the future.

The main topics will be energy efficiency, energy production, structural and urban development requirements for the construction and renovation of existing buildings and impulses for the construction industry - both in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main conurbation and nationwide. Among the speakers at the conference we welcome:

- Klara Geywitz, Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building
- Monika Fontaine-Kretschmer, Managing Director Nassauische Heimstätte
- Martin Giehl, Member of the Board of Mainova AG


 

Preliminary program

13:30 - 15:00 BLOCK 1
Stefan Pützenbacher, Frankfurt Research Institute FFin
Martin Giehl, Member of the Board of Mainova AG

15:00 - 16:00 block 2
Florian Mähl, Frankfurt Research Institute FFin
Monika Fontaine-Kretschmer, Managing Director Nassauische Heimstätte

16:00 - 16:20 Break

16:20 - 17:20 Block 3
Frankfurt Research Institute FFin
Klara Geywitz, Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building

17:20 - 18:00 Panel

18:00 Come Together