Topic Stream: The Renewable City
Plan for Papal Audience Hall, the Vatican, to be carrying solar voltaics. The presentation deals with modeling settlement specific renewable system capacities for cities and towns.
Image credit: Mauro Villarini, Technical Services Department, Vatican State
Dr. Dieter Genske: Urban Energy Independence
Settlement based models of renewable energy generation
- presentation and discussion
Introduction by Professor Peter Droege
Place and time:
Lecture Hall 4, 3 March 2009, Tue 17.15 - 18.45 h
Information
Dipl.-Arch. FH Jeannette Risch
Deadline 02.03.2009
Registration About the speaker Dieter D. Genske studied Civil Engineering and Geology in Germany and the United States, receiving master's degrees in both disciplines. After his PhD he started working on environmental problems, first as Humboldt-research fellow in Kyoto, then as project manager at Deutsche Montan Technologie, where he became involved in large urban remediation projects, including the International Building Exhibition IBA Emscherpark and the new parliament quarter in Berlin. In 1994, he was appointed Professor of Engineering Geology at Delft University of Technology and three years later Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, where he founded the Laboratory of Ecotechnics, the first of its kind in Switzerland. Dieter Genske has presented his projects on numerous international conferences and published extensively in peer reviewed journals. From 1994 to 2000, he edited the journal for then Recycling/Brownfield Redevelopment as well as the associated yearbook. In 2000, he is starting the autonomous Network of Independent Environmental Geo-Scientists EGS. Genske has conducted a number of development projects in low-income countries, especially Africa and Eastern Europe. Universities in Germany, Switzerland, South Africa and Japan invited him as guest professor. Presently, he teaches at Nordhausen University (Germany) and is chairing the Anthroposphere Dynamics Group at the Institute of Environmental Decision, ETH-Zurich.