With some 2,900 students, the Faculty is one of the largest in its areas of expertise in the Rhine-Main region. Its salient features are close networking with the regional planning and construction industry and high practical relevance. In research, the focus is on planning and construction, mobility, renewable energies and digitization.
To round out the portfolio, new study programs are being introduced in urban planning, infrastructure and the environment (all Bachelor’s programs) in addition to facility and real estate management, as well as sustainable mobility (all Master’s programs).
Sustainability, in conjunction with energy efficiency, for example, is given a high priority in teaching and research on “Resource-efficient planning, construction and operation” and “Sustainable urban, rural, infrastructure and mobility planning”; instructional aspects addressed in many modules range from wastewater treatment through to sustainable urban development.
The Faculty currently offers 7 undergraduate Bachelor’s and 9 Master’s degree programs, with a total of 89 Bachelor’s and 38 Master’s modules in the subject area of planning-building-operating, in which the topic of sustainability is addressed either peripherally (66 Bachelor’s and 2 Master’s modules) or as a core topic (19 Bachelor’s and 21 Master’s modules).
Sustainability Focal Points
- Energy-efficient building
- Thermal insulation and demand reduction
- Resource optimization
- Examples of zero- and low-energy buildings
- Night ventilation, natural ventilation
- Sustainable energy supply
- Energy supply grids
- Energy management
- Energy management concepts in buildings, industrial plants and municipal facilities
- Optimization of pipe and duct systems for reducing pump and fan power requirements
- Optimization of control technology to reduce energy consumption
- User comfort and guarantee of energy savings via control
- Management of buildings throughout life cycle
- Performance data of buildings
- Calculation and simulation methods
- Learning the basics of sustainability certificates
- Benchmarking
- Sustainability as basic principle of planning
- Sustainable urban development
- Best practices of sustainable urban development worldwide
- Mixed-use urban quarters
- Compact city
- Urban green spaces for climate protection and climate adaptation; water, climate, plants, animals and their role in urban ecology
- Inclusive public spaces
- Sustainability in land redevelopment
- Wasteland recycling (use of brownfield sites and vacant lots)
- Technical environmental impact assessment/environmental law/EIA
- Environmental assessment
- Competing sustainability goals
- Socially equitable land use and building land models