Benedikt Empl M.Sc.

  • Master of Science in Resource Efficient and Sustainable Building at the Technical University of Munich
  • DGNB Consultant (German Sustainable Building Council)
  • since 2019 at FIW Munich in the department of research and development

Main research fields

  • Life cycle assessment
  • Building modeling
  • Data analysis
  • Sufficiency in the building sector

Benedikt Empl M.Sc.
Department: research and development department
Phone:  +49 89 85800-59
Email:  empl@fiw-muenchen.de

Benedikt Empl (Master of Science), was gained practical experience as a production engineer in a medium-sized company after completing his bachelor's degree in wood technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim. The master’s degree in Resource-efficient and Sustainable Building at the Technical University of Munich enabled him to focus on research in construction. He has started to work at the “Research and Development” department at the FIW München as a student trainee and did his master's thesis with the subject area of sufficiency as a sustainability strategy in living in cooperation with the department. Since graduating in 2021, he has been working as an engineer and performs building modeling and data analysis tasks. He has a particular research interest in sustainable building and timber construction. 

  • Life cycle assessment of renovation measures on the building envelope
  • Evaluation of the funding program "Federal Funding for Efficient Buildings (BEG)" in the funding period 2021 to 2023
  • Evaluation for the funding programs "Energy-efficient construction and refurbishment - residential buildings (EBS WG) as part of the CO2 building refurbishment program of the BMWi in the funding period 2018 to 2021"
  • Determination of cost parameters, CO2 reduction potential and refurbishment strategies for energy-efficient refurbishment in the housing sector of municipal housing associations in Munich