Applications are now being taken for a design and engineering programme, which brings together expertise from across the globe to identify ways to make buildings more sustainable.
Vienna offers an innovative backdrop as a live case study, providing insight into passive house and sustainable, smart city expertise for the Green.Building.Solutions. (GBS) 2019 summer school.
Participants can immerse themselves in a unique, intensive experience, developing new skills to design and build sustainable cities in an environment that includes workshops, lectures, fact-finding visits and insight from world-leading academics.
Places are limited for the not-for-profit programme, which is relevant to students and professionals alike in the fields of architecture and the built environment, including construction management, project management, building engineering and surveying.
The 2018 GBS summer university attracted 42 participants from 27 different countries. All study and social activities are carried out in English, making it well-suited to participants from the UK and Ireland.
GBS takes place from July 20 to August 11 and is organised by the OeAD-Housing Office – part of Austria’s national agency for international mobility and cooperation in education, science and research.
Run in association with six partners who contribute to the content, including Vienna’s BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and the Vienna University of Technology – and supported by a further 21 universities in Austria and overseas – the course is priced at €2,490 for professionals and €2,000 for students.
This cost includes all social activities, lessons and tours, as well as accommodation for participants throughout the duration of GBS in one of OeAD’s passive house student residences – giving an added perspective to participants’ experiences in Vienna.
The accommodation is also included as part of the fee for almost a week after the programme, enabling those taking part to explore the city at leisure.
Günther Jedliczka, CEO of the OeAD-Housing Office, said: “GBS is gaining ground as a leading international opportunity to learn more about sustainable development.
“It attracts like-minded people who aspire to make the world a better place through the built environment.”
As well as GBS, the OeAD-Housing Office also operates the Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems programme (AEMS).
AEMS analyses how economic, political, monetary and environmental factors need to change to be more sustainable and takes place from July 24 to August 9, 2019.
More details about GBS can be found at www.summer-university.net