Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP)

provides an overview of the complex relationships between building and urban services technology (i.e. building construction and renovation, energy and water supply, waste and waste water management) and the environment (i.e. resources and space consumption, impacts on environmental media and ecosystems)

gives insight into patterns of user demand and behaviour and how they affect the technology-environment interaction

imparts knowledge of resource-efficient technologies, e.g. energy generation from renewable sources, as well as underlying principles, such as source separation and the closing of material cycles, demand side management, decentralised, modularised service provision, etc.

reviews experience with and conveys ideas for different forms of legal and economic organisation of planning, construction and urban services provision

teaches study and research methods and techniques for planning and decision support

Sustainability

Water, material and energy cycles in the city

Resource efficient urban technologies and infrastructure

Economics and administration of buildings and urban services

Legal and policy instruments

Urban planning on different scales: building (1:10–1:100), neighbourhood (1:500–1: 5,000) and city (1:10,000–1:100,000) scale and regarding the specific geographical and cultural context

Skills development: dimensioning, perception, assessment and decision making in the field of sustainable resource technologies

Research methods and decision support techniques

an architectural design course

focused on a single discipline – it is interdisciplinary and follows an integrative and multidimensional planning approach