We would like to thank all participants for their coming!

Here you find the lectures of the congress as pdf download and some impressions of the congress:
http://www.gebaeudegruen.info/service/downloads/weltkongress-wgic-2017/

Topics of the congress

Five thematic blocks will be presented in parallel in two large and three small lecture rooms. In four lecture rooms (room 1-4) the topics are green roofs and green facades. The fifth lecture room (room 5) is exclusively reserved for the topic green indoor areas. One thematic block comprises three thirty-minute lectures (including discussion) and is led by a moderator. The participants are given the opportunity to switch between thematic blocks and lectures held in parallel.

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Congress Program and List of Exhibitors at a glance

Tuesday, June 20th, 2017:

1st day of the event

9:00 am: Lectures

Topics:

Overview of green buildings

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Speaker	Lecture
Blanc, Patrick	Mur vegetal – living walls
Kaltenbrunner, Dr. Robert	The role of green in urban society
Köhler, Prof. Dr. Manfred	Green roof Technology from small to big – from local to global the first years of WGIN
Peck, Steven	Biophilia, Design and the Bottom Line: How Biophilic Research is Shaping Green Infrastructure and Improving Return on Investment
Scheuermann, Rudi	Cities Alive: Green Building Envelopes

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Funding and other financial Inscentives - Strategies for Building Greenup

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Speaker	Lecture
Bornholdt, Dr. Hanna	On your roofs - get set - green! The Green Roof Strategy of Hamburg
Calfapietra, Dr. Carlo	Green Infrastructure and air quality: experiences from the Cost Action GreenInUrbs and beyond
Herfort, Susanne	Förderungen von Dach- und Fassadenbegrünungen in Deutschland. Aktueller Stand. Möglichkeiten. Ausblick
Ibanez, Prof. G. Andres	From Efficiency to Eco-productivity: Bogota´s greening bylaws
Lok, Yan Ling	Growing Singapore's Green Canopy In The Sky
Massini, Peter	Greening a green city – the London experience
Piringer, Dominik	“Urban greening“ funding incentives of the city of Graz

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Framework Conditions - Policies

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Speaker	Lecture
Bartel, Prof. Dr. Yvonne-Christin	Significance and further development of the guidelines by the FLL illustrated by the example of pitched roofs and others
Betzler, Dr. Florian	"Green Density Factor (GDF) and Green Cooling Factor (GCF)." New calculations converting cities into a green paradise with cool climate, fresh air and clean water
Neumann, Prof. Klaus	Planning and building regulations of green buildings in the urban land-use planning
Palha, Paulo	Methodology to define a strategy of Green Roofs Policy for the city of Porto within the Fifth Façade Project
Preiss, Jürgen	Urban Heat Islands Strategyplan Vienna: Current implementation process with a particular focus on greening buildings

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Rainwatermanagement

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Speaker	Lecture
Deletic, Prof. Ane	Green Blue walls for greywater and stormwater treatment and management
Dreiseitl, Prof. Herbert	Rainwater experience. Open space quality, health, lifestile
Grimm, Karl	Rainwater Management in Urban Design
Haag, Dipl.-Ing. Leilah & Coenradie, Dr.-Ing. Bodo	Remote sensing green roof mapping and inventory analysis – the example Berlin
Klärle , Prof. Dr. Martina & Siehl, Achim	The Online Green Roof Cadastre of Marburg city
Matzinger, Dr. Andreas	Integrated planning of stormwater measures based on their multiple effects – results of the KURAS project
Roehr, Prof. Daniel	"Living" Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems
Uhl, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mathias	Urban Water Balance as an objective of Water Sensitive Urban Design
Wang, Prof. Zhao-long	Sponge Cities Program in China: Key Techniques for Sponge Grassland

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Biodiversity - Species protection

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Speaker	Lecture
Brenneisen, Dr. Stephan	Biodiversity on green roofs – how can the ecological and conservation compensation function be optimized by appropriate design planning?
Dezsényi, Peter	Green roofs with diversity of species – examples of Realization
Gedge, Dusty	How biodiversity helped to make a capital cities roof policy – the experience from London
MacIvor, Dr. Scott	Plant diversity and species selection improves green roof performance
Sicilia Carnicer, Joaquín	The Paradigm of Urban Naturation as a Building Material

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Green indoor areas

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Speaker	Lecture
Bucher, Dr. Annette	Support of the air-conditioning of energetically highly efficient buildings by vertical interior greening
Molitor, Dr. Heinz-Dieter	How to support plants of indoor greening correctly
Strauch, Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz	Light, Air and Temperature in indoor greening
Zemp, Gerhard	Greening of buildings – Architecture and Nature in crowded cities

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5:00 pm: Awards
6:00 pm: Press conference
7:00 pm: Conference dinner

Wednesday, June 21st, 2017:

2nd day of the event

9:00 am: Lectures

Topics:

Sustainable Building - Energy - Ecosystemservices Concept

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Speaker	Lecture
Heusinger, Jannik	Micrometeorology quantification of the energy balance of an extensive green roof
Janoubi, Aslan	Elevated Greenery can integrate with Urban Design and Raise the quality of City Centers
Lehmann, Dr. Burkhardt	EPDs: Environmental Product Declarations – source for green buildings
Pfoser, Dr.-Ing. Nicole	Building • Greenings • Energy: Potentials and interdependencies
Richter, Eike	Build sustainably with greening of buildings – Overview
Rudolphi, Prof. Alexander	More than green – The DGNB System for sustainable buildings and districts
Scharf, DI Bernhard	Planning Green Infrastructure Solutions for Smart Cities
Tolderlund, Leila	Enabling Innovation in Green Infrastructure Design Thinking

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Architecture - Projects - Best Practice

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Speaker	Lecture
Auböck, Prof. DI Maria & Kárász, Mag. János	Rooftop design - examples from Vienna and Munich
Briz, Prof. Dr. Julian	URBAN AGRICULTURE: Challenges and opportunities
Dillon, Matthew	Green Infrastructure and Living Architecture Design in Sydney, Australia
Faucon, Philippe	Toit Tout Vert - Intensive urban farming under a greenhouse on a roof in Paris
Kuhn, Michael & Felix Holzapfel-Herziger	City-Garden on a Bunker, Hamburg St. Pauli: Grey to Green
Küsters, Peter	Flow Control System 4.0 Smart Flow Control - status of modern rain water management
Rauschen, Igor	Green roofs and photovoltaics from the point of view of an engineer
Ruttensperger, Stefan & Knapp, Stefan	Power green roof
Soravia, Mag. Jasmin	Skyline of Vienna is getting green
Specht, Katrin	“Zero-acreage farming (ZFarming)” – Nutzung von Dächern, Fassaden und alten Fabriken in Städten zur Nahrungsmittelproduktion
Ulreich, Mag. Hans-Jörg	A delicate plant
Velazquez, Linda S.	2017 Top 10 List of Hot Trends in Greenroof & Greenwall Design

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Cost-Benefit analysis

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Speaker	Lecture
Feller, Stefan	Cost / benefit assessment of roof greening in subsidized housing
Gatti, Laura	Up to the Sky - The age of vertical forests
Jim, Prof. Dr. C.Y.	Ascertaining thermal and energy benefits of intensive tropical green roof
Matos Silva, Prof. Dr. Cristina	Technical and socio-economical feasibility of greening urban transport infrastructures
Peritsch, DI Dr. Manfred	How does the green building market work? Cost / benefit analysis between luxury article and basic infrastructure business
Wassmann-Takigawa, Fritz	EnergyGreenRoof and EnergyGreenFassade – are they rewarding?

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Maintenance and Care

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Speaker	Lecture
Jäckel, Dr. Barbara	Important parameters of maintenance and care to preserve vital interior greenery and façade greening
Krupka, Bernd W.	Sustainable maintenance and care of green roofs to preserve functionality and biodiversity
Kumar, Hema	Creativity and Challenges in creating high raise green walls

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City of the Future

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Speaker	Lecture
Armour, Tom	Greenprint for Cities
Eyink, Prof. Dr. Hagen	White Paper “Green in the City”
Fischer, Dr. Bernhard	Green buildings and their use as an active environmental and climate potential
Senator Lompscher, Katrin	City of the Future
Oldeland, Martin	City of the future and urban greening
Prytula, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael	National platform – City of the future
Schröpfer, Prof. Dr. Thomas	Innovative Building Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture

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Green indoor areas

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Speaker	Lecture
Espoz Babul, Ignacio	Indoor Green Walls a better quality of life
Herrmannsdörfer, Jürgen	Company network for green indoor areas
Pungkothai, Kay	Beyond Greening – Raising The Social and Health Value of Skyrise Greenery
Strauch, Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz	Indoor irrigation strategies
Teuber, Frank	Enthusiasm for plants by the consumer – a mega trend?

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From approx. 5:00 pm: After work experience exchange

Thursday, June 22nd, 2017:

3rd day of the event
From 8:30 am – 4:00 pm excursions in Berlin with expert guides

Excursion 1: Green roofs
Excursion 2: Green walls / living walls
Excursion 3: Green indoor areas
Excursion 4: Green buildings (Green roofs, walls and indoor areas)
Excursion 5: Urban Greenspace ((parks, green track beds…)

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We would like to thank all participants for their coming!

Topics of the congress

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