Construction represents Germany's most resource-intensive industry and is responsible for a significant proportion of environmentally harmful emissions. Over 500 million tons of material input per year are attributed to the sector. Similarly, demolition waste accounted for 223 million tons in 2016, or about 54% of the country's total waste generation. Globally, construction is responsible for 38% of total CO₂ emissions, making it a real climate polluter.

Consequently, the currently prevailing principles of construction and building operation consume enormous amounts of non-renewable resources and entail significant environmental impacts. A shift towards more sustainable building practices is necessary and overdue to limit environmental, climate change and social impacts. Dipl.-Ing. Christian Popp, research associate at the Institute of Structural Design of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and member of the Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Research Group will address this topic  in the next TUD Lectures "Sustainable Building - Why we would need to change the way we build." on Feb. 28 at 6:00 p.m. and provide answers to audience questions.

The questions are addressed to the speaker by the Sustainability Working Group of the Student Representative Council (FSR) for Architecture and Landscape Architecture. An FSR is an elected student council in which, in the case of architecture and landscape architecture, around 20 members are involved. Within this council, a working group for more sustainable and climate-friendly building was formed, which advocated that this should be taught in the curriculum.

This is the link to the event.