Our competences in the disciplines of resource management, climate protection and adaption, transport and mobility, environmental economics and municipal economy and infrastructure are as follows:
Professional competences
- Technological infrastructure systems with the sectors water, wastewater, electricity, heat, cold, waste and transportation
- Near natural infrastructure systems with the sectors green and blue infrastructure
- Coupling of technological and natural infrastructure systems and sectors
- Contribution to integrated urban development concepts (Integrierte Stadtentwicklungskonzepte, ISEK)
- Short range mobility and accessibility
Methodological competences
- Techno-economic analysis and prognoses (population, economy, environment)
- Material-flow analysis and modelling (resource management)
- Integrated assessment methods, i.e. cost-benefit analysis, eco-efficiency analysis
- Dialogue and cooperation processes
Scientific competences
- Adaptation (transformation) of water infrastructures to new challenges
- Internalisation of environmental and resource costs
- Functioning of technical infrastructures in spatial development
- Advanced wastewater treatment by near natural methods (soil filter)
- Integration of research and practice through inter- and transdisciplinary working methods
- Promotion of scientific offspring (lectureships, master’s theses and doctorates)