Climate-Neutral Buildings

Transforming the buildings sector is crucial for achieving energy and climate policy objectives. The two pillars of this transformation are increased efficiency and decarbonizing heating and cooling. The Business Unit Climate-Neutral Buildings aims to provide integrated support for the energy transition and to pave the way to climate-neutral buildings through innovative research and councelling. 

Using inter-disciplinary approaches, we combine scientific excellence with practical solutions. With substantiated analyses and a profound understanding for the interactions between technology, business and society, we create the basis for sustainable developments, focussing on:

• Technology specific, region specific and actor specific modelling: 
  Using various approaches (potential assessment, sector models, agent-based models, etc.), we investigate the transformation of the heat and buildings sector and model future szenarios for them.
• Socio-technological and techno-economical analyses:
  We analyse innovations that promote the heating transformation and evaluate their economic and social viability.
• Policy Advice:
  We analyse the building sector's energy policy strategies and instruments at the European and national level and develop tailor-made strategies for their design. 
  

Coordinator of the Business Unit is Dr. Markus Fritz.