Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building Technical University of Munich

Overview

The Master of Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building programme from Technical University of Munich graduates are to be able to think holistically and offer their services in resource efficient, sustainable construction as particularly well-qualified engineers, architects and planners. Given their broad-based specialist skills and their interdisciplinary thinking and working, they will help amongst other things to implement the stipulations of national and international law with regard to resource efficient construction. To this end, they will develop constructional design solutions for climate protection, which will continue to be urgently needed, and will help satisfy the increasing need to adjust buildings and neighbourhoods to face the advance of climate change.

To this end, the M.Sc. RNB programme graduates will have the necessary skills in drafting and planning at the scale levels of buildings, neighbourhoods, towns and cities as well as regions. They will also have detailed knowledge of the skill areas of construction physics, building services engineering, structural design and life cycle analysis that are relevant to resource efficient, sustainable construction. They will be familiar with the interactions and synergies of these fields, and will be able to apply the knowledge that they have gained in planning and implementing resource efficient buildings and neighbourhoods.

As "interface specialists", they have both the necessary abilities to optimise the resource requirements, taking account of aspects that are relevant to sustainability such as ecology, economics and sociocultural factors, as well as being able to communicate both with creative architects and planners and with analytically- and technically-orientated engineers, and to communicate their knowledge in a goal-driven and effective manner. The abilities to optimise building and neighbourhood concepts in a resource-driven, quantifiable manner on the basis of engineering methods and to effectively integrate the knowledge that they have gained into the planning process, taking the entire life cycle into account, constitute special qualifications of graduates from this programme.

The Master’s programme in Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building (RNB) creates an independent activity profile of a sustainability expert in the construction sector who is able to close the gap between classical civil engineers, environmental engineers, architects and building services engineers. Graduates from the Master’s programme in Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building will be able to analyse connections and insights related to all aspects of sustainable design and building in order to develop solutions that implement resource efficient, sustainable buildings at the interdisciplinary interface between man, buildings, infrastructure and the environment.

Careers

• architects’, engineers’ or other planning offices,
• public authorities (e.g. building and planning offices, approval authorities),
• experts, consultants,
• construction companies,
• industrial production,
• trade and commerce,
• research and teaching, and
• further training and development.