This year's hydraulic engineering and geodesy field trip took the student excursion group to the German-French border region from July 28 to August 1, 2025.

TOD and Green Transformation Towards Sustainability

We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the 11th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) under the theme “Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Green Transformation Towards Sustainability” is now open. This annual conference is jointly organized by the Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) program, Vietnamese-German University (VGU), and Darmstadt University of Technology. The event will take place on October 24, 2025, at the VGU campus, Ring Road 4, Quarter 4, Thoi Hoa Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Athens. The Technical University of Darmstadt was represented by scientific experts at this year's 31st Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), which took place in Athens from July 2nd to 5th, 2025. Postdoctoral researcher Felipe Francisco De Souza, PhD., and doctoral candidate Jan Schmid, M.Sc., travelled to the Greek capital on behalf of the Department of Land Management to present their current research to an international audience.

The research project “REGENERATE – Reuse for Energy Exploitation and storage of existing urban Tunnels in Europe” is investigating the energy potential of various underground infrastructures in Germany, Italy, Austria and Romania. The participating researchers met for the first time in person at the Politecnico de Torino.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Linke’s lecture on “Ownership of land in urban development – between private benefit and the common good” explored the tension between private property rights and public interests in addressing urban challenges such as climate adaptation and infrastructure development.

In the public series of events organized by the AG Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung in cooperation with NUR – Network Urban Research, researchers from the AG Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung at TU Darmstadt and invited guests from various disciplines will present their current work on the topic of the city. The “Stadtgespräche” are open to all interested parties at the university as well as the urban public and practitioners.

This year's excursion “Development of rural areas” took the excursion group to Vogtland in Saxony from June 4 to June 6. The Master's students of civil and environmental engineering, who were accommodated in Plauen, had the opportunity to explore the LEADER region “legendary Vogtland” together with fellow students from TU Dresden and a group of surveying trainees.

The SUD Career Day provided a great opportunity to network and learn about career prospects in Germany.

Under the title “REGENERATE – Reuse for Energy Exploitation and storage of existing urban Tunnels in Europe”, a new joint project has started in which we, together with partners from Italy, Austria and Romania, are researching the energy potential of tunnels and other underground structures for regenerative heat generation.