FUTUREPROOF S – City & Building

Introduction

The third Lab Talk highlights good practices for sustainable new buildings and emphasises the importance of scaling these solutions to achieve a real impact for futureproof cities.

Assuming we already know the strategies needed to meet the ambitious targets for a resilient new building stock, why are we not progressing faster? Given the urgency to accelerate large-scale change, how can we foster greater alignment among all construction industry stakeholders to create a win-win-win scenario?

Programme

Welcome
Miriam Mlecek, Programme Manager, Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin

Introduction
Peter Scheibstock, Associate Director, Sustainability, Buro Happold, Berlin and Sabine Müller, Associate Director, Structures, Buro Happold, Berlin

Presentations
Bettina Dorendorf, Senior Sustainability and Sustainable Finance Manager, KfW Banking Group, Berlin
Martin Löcker, Group Head of Development, CA Immo, Vienna
Noel Justesen Wibrand, Head of Sustainability and Partner, Dorte Mandrup, Copenhagen

Discussion 
with participants and peers, moderated by Peter Scheibstock and Sabine Müller

Front Row Peers
Jendrik Kruse, Head of Technical Department, Gewobag, Berlin

About Futureproof

2025 marks 30 years of Buro Happold in Germany. With the series FUTUREPROOF, Buro Happold and Aedes take the opportunity to look ahead to the next 5, 10 or even 30 years. The event series explores holistic approaches to futureproof regions, cities and buildings in an interdisciplinary dialogue with experts from politics, science and planning.

Climate change, urbanisation, digitalisation – the challenges of our times can only be addressed through collaborative efforts. The increasing complexity of problems arising in multiple sectors will force us to plan for the unplannable. Preparing our cities and regions for an unpredictable future – making them “futureproof” – means to think beyond the 2030 and 2050 political objectives. Interdisciplinary thinking, flexibility and integrative actions across all scales will move more to the forefront.

What transformative solutions are needed to help urban and regional systems adapt to future challenges? How can we “prepare” for the challenges that lie ahead, without being able to fully predict them? What role must engineers and consultants play in this? How can they become even stronger partners for new networks and advise, guide and moderate complex yet integrated solutions?

A Lab Talk Series in collaboration with