Dr Dirk A. Schwede (PhD USyd AUS)
Dr Dirk Schwede (PhD USyd AU, Dipl.-Ing.) has studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the University of Stuttgart. He received a PhD from the University of Sydney in Australia in 2006. In 2008 he founded the consulting firm energydesign in Shanghai as a partner and served then as its managing director till the end of 2012. He and his team of specialized engineers have been (and still is) contributing as consultants and engineers to sustainable building throughout China and Asia. He has been visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai (2010-2013; 2015-2016).
From 12/2012 till 12/2017 Dr Schwede has been Juniorprofessor for Sustainable Building at the University of Stuttgart endowed by the Robert Bosch Foundation. Dr Schwede is further managing director of the engineering consulting firm EGSplan international in Stuttgart. His research is focused on sustainable development in the Asian context and climate through architectural and engineering measures in the built environment as well as on adapted sustainable building approaches for developing and emerging countries.
academic career
| 07/2018 | – | today | Research Group Leader „System Integration and Sustainable Building“, Institute for Building Energetics, Thermotechnology and Energy Storage (IGTE), Stuttgart University, Germany [link] |
| 05/2019 | – | 09/2019 | visiting lecturer, Technical Service Systems for Buildings, master program “Resource Efficient Building”, University of Applied Forest Sciences Rottenburg, Germany |
| 12/2012 | – | 12/2017 | Robert Bosch Juniorprofessor „Sustainable Building“, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering [link], Institute of Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) [link], University of Stuttgart [link], Stuttgart, Germany |
| 09/2015 | – | 02/0216 | guest professor, College for Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China [link] |
| 06/2010 | – | 06/2013 | guest professor, Chinesisch Deutsche Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (CDHAW), Tongji University, Shanghai, China [link] |
| 07/2006 | – | 01/2008 | Post-doc, Research Fellow, Built Environment Research Group (BERG), School of Architecture, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia [link] |
| 09/2002 | – | 04/2006 | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), School of Architecture, Design Science and Planning, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australien [link] |
| 10/1996 | – | 09/1999 | Diplom-Ingenieur (comparable to MSc), Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering [link] University of Stuttgart [link, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 10/1993 | – | 09/1996 | intermediate diploma and additional course work, civil engineering, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany [link] |
| 05/1992 | Abitur (A-level), Helene-Lange-Gymnasium, Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
professional career
| 12/2017 | – | today | expert and consultant for technical cooperation and development projects
for German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), Asian Development Bank (ADB) |
| 08/2015 | – | today | managing partner, EGSplan-international Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart [link] |
| 10/2008 | – | 12/2012 | founder and managing partner, energydesign (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Shanghai [link] |
| 01/2008 | – | 12/2010 | managing director, project leader, engineer, energydesign asia – Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart [link] |
| 09/2000 | – | 09/2002 | project engineer, Steinbeis Transfer Centre for Energy-, Building- and Solartechnology (STZ-EGS), Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany [link] |
| 10/1999 | – | 08/2000 | project engineer for integrated design – Facility Management, Planungsgruppe IFB Dr. Braschel, Stuttgart, Germany |
commissions of trust
| 2017 | – | 2021 | deputy director of German Affairs of the China Green Building Council (China GBC) |
| 2017 | – | today | international member of the Green Building Council of Chinese Society for Urban Studies (CSUS, China Green Building Council, China GBC) |
| 10/2013 | – | 10/2019 | member of the commission for Sustainable Building in the Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt (UBA)) [link] |