Monday, 23 March 2026

Ab 8:30: TUtheSky foyer: Registration and coffee
9:00–10:30 TUtheSky Hall: Session 1: Framework conditions for a circular city
Chair: Susanne Formanek, President of IBO, Vienna
Welcome and Introduction
Tobias Waltjen; Susanne Formanek | IBO Vienna
M_hub: Web-based platform for inventory management
Iva Kovacic | Vienna University of Technology
Panel discussion: Keynotes
A constructional perspective on the circular city – Data and measuring methods
Claus Asam | Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs
and Spatial Development, Berlin
Vienna’s circular building practice – progress,  key aspects, pathways of implementation. A statement.
Bernadette Luger | City of Vienna: Municipal Department of Construction and Technology
Discussion with Claus Asam, Iva Kovacic, Bernadette Luger 
Welcoming addresses:

  • Hannes Warmuth | BMIMI Federal Ministry for Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure
  • Karin Stieldorf | TU Vienna, Institute of Architecture and Design
10:30–11:00: Coffee break
11:00–12:30 TUtheSky Hall: Session 2: Continuing to build in (industrial) existing structures
Chair: Martin Huber | Bau.Energie.Umwelt Cluster Lower Austria
Brownfield development as a catalyst for sustainable transformation: Insights from the project Promprylad.Renovation and other projects of the DELTA Group in Central and Eastern Europe.
Wolfgang Gomernik |DELTA AG & DELTA Ukraine, Vienna; Marc Guido Höhne | DELTA Group, Vienna
Renovation of the Gründerzeit building at Fernkorngasse 41 with ecological building materials, decentralised wastewater heat recovery, highly efficient building envelope and deep boreholes on public land
Helmut Schöberl | Schöberl & Pöll, Vienna
Kathi & Theo – The story of an unusual friendship. Between concrete and movement
Christian Kircher | smartvoll Architects, Vienna
Discussion
12:30–13:30: Lunch break
13:30–15:30 TUtheSky Hall: Session 3: New life in old walls
Chair: Doris Österreicher | University of  Stuttgart
Sustainable renovation in Lavin and research with Eurac Research: hemp bricks, interior insulation and the InRenova project
Werner Schönthaler | Schönthaler Bausteinwerk GmbH, Eyrs, Italy
Circular low-tech renovation with natural construction materials of the Finowfurt village community centre
Dag Schaffarczyk | Spreeplan Berlin
ÖGNI Gold-Certification as quality assurance in the monumental heritage Riemergasse 7, Vienna
Annekatrin Koch | Larix Engineering, Vienna
Demonstration Building at Herbert-Bayer-Platz. Climate-Neutral Transformation of a Spatial Programme and an Existing Building
Michael Rieper | University of Art and Design Linz;
13:30–15:30 Seminarr room BA 10A: Workshop 1: Serial renovation, wood & reuse [Language: German]
Chair: Susanne Formanek| RENOWAVE.AT
RENOWAVE.AT, together with the Professional Association of the Wood Industry (FV Holzindustrie), invites you to a workshop on current developments and projects relating to serial renovation, taxonomy capability, and the use of wood and reuse in construction.
Details and Registration
15:30–16:00: Coffee break
16:00–18:00 4:30–6:30 p.m. TUtheSky Hall: Session 4: Circular economy and renovation at the component level
Chair: Karin Stieldorf | TU Wien
Research project “Kon-Wert”: Contaminated wooden components as recyclable materials in reuse – secondary material recovery based on a project in the Alpine region to reuse existing building materials on site.
Axel Laimer-Liedtke | Dietrich Untertrifaller Architects, Vienna
Reuse of timber frame components from prefabricated/timber houses: A great opportunity for the circular economy in construction?
Ulrich Pont | Vienna University of Technology
The “Viennese box window” – a success story
Tobias Steiner | IBO ; Katrin Keintzel-Lux | baukanzlei, Vienna; Gregor Radinger | Danube University Krems
Energy Retrofit of Historic Box-Type Windows: Airtightness, Condensation Risk and Thermal Performance
Matthias Schuß | Vienna University of Technology; Roman Meixner | Holzforschung Austria, Vienna
 
16:00–18:00 4:30–6:30 p.m. Seminar room BA 10A: In-depth session (= Workshop2): Renovation in practice [Language: German]
Chair: Rudolf Bintinger | IBO GmbH
Condition analysis and leak testing in existing buildings – ensuring quality, conserving resources, promoting sustainability
Gordon Denner | FLO Systems GmbH, Kressbronn, Germany
Pollutants in building fabric: identifying risks and involving experts
Bernhard Damberger | IBO Innenraumanalytik Vienna
Retrofit IntelligenceTM for sustainable buildings and neighbourhoods – renovation ands automation  with blue auditor
Elena Graf-Burgstaller | blue auditor GmbH, Vienna
The renovation coach as a game changer
Helga Noack, Heinrich Schuller | Baurettungsgasse, St. Pölten
 

Programme subject to change!