"Climate neutrality in all areas of action by 2031" – this is what Leibniz University Hannover has committed to in its climate and environmental protection guidelines. Campus buildings are of central importance due to their significant energy consumption and the resulting high CO2 emissions.
As part of the two-year SQM-funded project "campus.zero," students began investigating how the goal of climate neutrality can be achieved for various buildings in the summer semester of 2023.
The buildings themselves are intended to serve as a tangible and tangible model for the entire LUH campus, serving as a real-world laboratory.
Together with various stakeholders at LUH (faculties, institutes, departments, and divisions) as well as external experts, we developed concepts for climate-neutral campus buildings and their outdoor areas, partly taking into account historic preservation concerns in the spirit of sustainable construction and the guidelines of the New European Bauhaus. Various topics such as the renovation of the building envelope and technology, New Work, rainwater harvesting, biodiversity, and the redesign of outdoor areas were explored in depth.
In addition to energy and resource efficiency measures, the focus was also on the integration of renewable energies into architectural design and interdisciplinary collaboration.
The core content was the development of competencies for holistic solution development and the necessary processes, supported by digital tools.
The sub-projects "archland.zero" and "Campus of the Future: Climate Adaptation at Schneiderberg 50" were carried out jointly with the Institute of Landscape Architecture, Department of Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture. The students were able to present their results to a broader audience in the lecture series "Transformation of the Energy System" organized by LiFE 2050.
Editor
Annette Bähr, Architect, MBA Eng.
