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Austrian Institute of Technology
At AIT, models are being
developed on how urban
centers of tomorrow can be
simulated, planned and ultimately
realized.
Our services
Developing tools in order to:
• understand network interaction
and support city planning
• efficiently identify energy losses
in the cities
• visualize the effectiveness of
CO 2
reduction measures
• reduce energy consumption in
urban areas
• increase the safety of the population
and maintain water quality.
Foto: Johannes Zinner/AIT
Prof. Dr. Reinhard König,
Senior Scientist at the Center
for Energy, Sustainable
Buildings and Cities, Austrian
Institute of Technology
„ Thanks to Design Space
Exploration, we are
developing models that
provide an important
basis to arrive at fast
compromise solutions
for complex urban
planning issues.“
Our work
According to UN Habitat estimates,
about 3 million people around the
world are moving to urban centers
every week – the proportion of the
urban population will thus further
increase in the coming decades
and rise to about 70 percent by
2050. This, however, also leads to
increasing social and ecological
challenges as cities are already
one of the main causes of climate
change. They consume about twothirds
of the total energy and thus
also account for a large part of CO 2
emissions. Urban spaces are a very
complex system in regards to their
structure and networks, whose
physical, social, technological and
economic development depends on
the interactions between the public
sector, businesses, politicians
and citizens of the city, but also on
the interaction with the city surroundings
and with other cities.
Developing livable, resource-conserving
and low-emission cities therefore
requires special concepts,
procedures, processes and tools to
be deployed in a complex interplay
with stakeholders.
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