The Sustainable Energy Technology Competence Centre (zafh.net) is dedicated to energy research. zafh.net focuses on the development of integrated and systemic energy concepts for buildings, urban districts and regions.

The relevance of the research is reflected in Europe's annual energy demand: almost half of the primary energy - around 20 million gigawatt hours - is accounted for by the building sector, with an increasingly networked city using resources efficiently, implementing intelligent mobility concepts and ensuring that its infrastructure is supplied in large proportions by renewable energy.

The zafh.net was established in 2002 under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Ursula Eicker as a state-wide cluster of excellence in the field of building energy research under the name "Centre for Applied Research at Universities of Applied Sciences - Sustainable Energy Technology" (zafh.net) by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science with the support of the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg foundation. Today, zafh.net works together with industrial partners, municipalities, architects and planning offices. Furthermore, there is cooperation with housing associations, universities and research institutes worldwide in the field of innovative energy concepts for cities and regions, energy management solutions for buildings and communities, components for solar heating and cooling as well as simulation and control of energy technology systems. The employees come from a wide range of disciplines such as building physics, infrastructure management, architecture and urban planning, geoinformatics, mechanical engineering and supply engineering, thus ensuring the interdisciplinary character of the research groups.

The spokesperson of the competence centre is Prof. Dr. Bastian Schröter. The management is in the hands of Maximilian Haag.

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Projects

Within IAF, zafh.net works with inter- and transdisciplinary approaches on numerous research projects on a national and international level.

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    Members

    Professorial and voting members

    Name & Position E-Mail & Telephone Competencecenter
    Professor+49 711 8926 2371 7/028 Nachhaltige Energietechnik

    Employees

    Name & Position E-Mail & Telephone Competencecenter
    Sarina HötzelAcademic assistant+49 711 8926 2372 7/106
    Academic Staff Member+49 711 8926 2334 7/012 Nachhaltige Energietechnik
    Petra FischbachResearch Assistant+49 711 8926 2875 7/010 Akustische und thermische Bauphysik Geodäsie und Geoinformatik
    Katja SchulzeAcademic staff member+49 711 8926 2784 7/106
    projekt coordinator+49 711 8926 2595 7/015
    Eric DuminilAcademic staff member+49 711 8926 2474 7/010 Nachhaltige Energietechnik
    Scientific employee+49 711 8926 2958 7/105 Nachhaltige Energietechnik
    Maximilian HaagManaging Director zafh.net / Management iCity +49 711 8926 2359 7/001 Nachhaltige Energietechnik
    Lisa BittmannAcademic staff member / Project management+49 711 8926 2807 7/015

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