sustain.build.repeat. Building Stock as the Resource of the 21st Century

Symposium on sustainable construction organized by the Professorship of Sustainable Construction, Department of Architecture at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

The symposium sustain.build.repeat. is dedicated to the resource of the 21st century: our building stock. With growing waste volumes and ever scarcer raw materials, careless building demolitions and replacements must be avoided. Instead, existing buildings should be converted and rebuilt, components removed, reused and reused again. 

It is important to preserve as much of the existing building stock as possible on the premise of resource- and climate-friendly architecture: on the one hand as a changeable space in which various usage scenarios are possible, and on the other hand as a material depot and secondary raw material supplier. 

Representatives from science and industry, research and practice will present ideas, strategies and impulses on how the ecological necessity of reconstruction and transformation of the existing can become an enriching element of a caring, needs-oriented and value-preserving architecture in ecological balance. 

We are very pleased to welcome the following speakers to our event:

Thomas Auer
Professor, Dipl. Ing., CEO Transsolar, Stuttgart, Professor, Building Technology and climate-friendly construction, TU Munich

Philippe Block
Professor, Dr., Co-director, Block Research Group, ETH Zurich, Director, NCCR - Digital Fabrication

Dominik Campanella
M. Sc. Management, Co-Founder and CEO restado and concular, Stuttgart

Daniel Fuhrhop
Dipl. Kfm., Business Graduate, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Author and Economist

Roland Gruber
Mag. Arch., Co-Founder and CEO nonconform, Wien, Vice Mayor Moosburg, Kärnten

Tina Kammer
Professor, Dipl. Ing. Architect, CEO InteriorPark, Stuttgart, Professor, Sustainable Construction, IU International University

Kerstin Müller
Dipl. Ing. Architect, CEO Baubüro in situ AG and Zirkular GmbH, Climate Council Lörrach

Additionally, a thematic introduction will be given by Professor, Dirk Hebel, Professor of Sustainable Construction and Dean of the KIT Department of Architecture, the panel discussions between the lectures will be moderated by Monica Tusinean. In the foyer in front of the Medientheater, there will be an accompanying exhibition of student works that deal with the preservation of existing stock. 

The symposium is part of ChangeLab, an innovation platform for sustainability in the building industry, sponsored by Wacker Chemie AG. 

Livestream: The event will also be livestreamed freely here.

The symposium will be held in English.

More information and registration for the event at ZKM here.