The engineer Marco Schmidt specialized in thesustainable architecture referred to energy efficiency of buildings. Special mention was made of the role of water evaporation in the cooling of the planet and the limitation of climate change. It showed us green roofs and other sustainability systems of the physics department building.
Wilhelmsburg’s former air raid bunker has been transformed into a symbol of the “Renewable Wilhelmsburg” Climate Protection Concept. Having languished almost unused since the end of World War II, the monument has now been renovated during the IBA Hamburg and converted into a power plant using renewable forms of energy, with a large heat reservoir. This supplies the Reiherstieg district with climate-friendly heat, while feeding renewable power into the Hamburg distribution grid.
The German Climate Computing Centre (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, DKRZ) is a central service center for the German climate research and Earth system research. It operates high performance computing for applied and basic research in climate science and related disciplines. The main task of the DKRZ is to provide computing power and technical support for models and simulations of climate research.
Training and guided tours were done by the researcher Michael Böttingen.
The Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost is a unique world of weather, climate and climate-change knowledge and experience. Travel the world along the eighth longitude and experience the earth’s climate zones close up – exciting and spectacular.
You will cross five continents and nine locations. You will sweat, freeze, marvel and laugh, and above all, meet people from around the world who will talk about their everyday lives and describe how the climate affects them.