In the town of Esslingen, a new inner-city district comprising residential and commercial space as well as new university building is being constructed across a 120,000 m² gross floor area by 2025.

By analysing historical consumption and simulating large loads, power, heating and cooling demand scenarios are being drawn up for the future development of TU München's Garching Campus and optimised across all sectors.

Phase change materials (PCMs) are only used sporadically in construction, although various products and systems have been available on the market for several years now. The PCM Demo II research project therefore intends to test and scientifically evaluate the practicality of PCMs in buildings.

The spectacular new central building for Leuphana University Lüneburg interprets energy-optimised construction in a different way. The concept for achieving sustainability is based on avoiding cooling requirements and minimising the electricity requirements for ventilation and lighting.

For its Campus Lichtwiese, the Technische Universität Darmstadt is aiming to realise the energy transition in an exemplary fashion at the district level through intelligently linking the building modernisation and future energy supply.

In order to utilise climate protection potential and deploy resources with high cost-effectiveness, two Hamburg universities are working together with research partners to develop a geodata-based heat information and simulation system.

MoniSoft, a Java-based and platform-independent software package, simplifies the monitoring and operational analysis of buildings. Stringent measurement data processing with quality assurance functionality and diverse options for context-based data visualization optimizes energy managed buildings.

A new urban district with highly energy-efficient buildings is being built on 22 hectares of brownfield land. The municipal sewage system is providing the main source of energy for the heating and cooling.

With its new “Energy Centre”, the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg now has an energy-efficient new building where six departments have been able to conduct research under one roof since the middle of 2013.

In this research project, software for calculating lifecycle costs was developed as a planning and decision aid for architects, specialist planners and energy consultants. The underlying calculation method is suitable for generally analysing the lifecycle costs of buildings or individual components.

Cities could be so much more energy efficient: waste heat produced by industrial plants, for instance, could be used to heat buildings in place of fossil fuels. DELTA, the newly launched living lab for the energy transition, is now looking to implement such energy-saving ideas.

The goal of the GW-Ruhr project is to use the existing mining infrastructure in the Ruhr region for a more climate-friendly energy provision. The focus here is on recovering heat from mine water at former mining sites. Possible cooling demands will also be taken into account.