Research

The chairs/ professorships at the institute for real estate industry want their scientific research to be understood as a platform for theoretic and application oriented research. Only like that the area of conflict between theory and praxis can experience large significance. The goal is to impart the students and third parties expertise in problem-solving processes in the praxis of the real estate industry.

The research emphases at the centre of excellence for sustainability in the real estate industry subdivide themselves according to the following schema:

"Identify and Understand"

•Scenario development to downscale global processes of change for the real estate   industry:

         • Data processing and modelling/ tools

         • Identification of functional chains

         • Identification and evaluation of risks

         • Analysis of potential accumulated losses

         • Complex systems and intrinsic uncertainty 

•Sustainability Due Diligence 

•Research in the field of urban/ cross-city hedonic "quality of life"(QOL), especially   implicit prices of environmental aspects (environmental attribute, environmental     determinants)/ hedonic price models  

•Analysis of the user satisfaction and needs 

•Analysis of aspects of the market failure 

•Intertemporal problems/ ethics/ intergenerational challenges of the climate             change 

"Avoid and Adapt"

•Benchmarking and development of generic strategies for resource conservation 

•Optimisation of the user behavior 

•Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the real estate industry 

•Sustainability reports according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)/                   environmental performance of corporations
•Sustainability analysis (cost-benefit analysis, CO2 evaluation, LCC/ Integral             planning, Green Labels and environmental accounting(LCA)) 

•Optimisation of the risk transfer systems 

•Mechanisms for the internalisation of negative external/ politico-economic             implications/ Evaluation of politico-economic

"Change and Innovate"

•Resource management (in a scientific way) und real estate industry – sketch of an   sustainable ecologic real estate industry 

•Communication/ Distribution of environmentally relevant results/ findings 

•Optimisation oft he sustainability of real estate investments:

         • Creation/ standardisation/ advancement of testing standards

         • End-use/ Least cost thoughts

         • Development of adapted financial instruments

         • Advancements of Green Leases 

•Green Development/ Green Building/Brownfields/ Plus-buildings/ Bionic-               buildings 

•Sector strategies in the field of adaption to climate change 

•Sustainable management and management of existing property/ implementation     of bionic findings in the real estate industry