Board and staff

Since 1992, working for various projects of the IBO, Institute for Building Biology and Ecology. Since 1997, managing director of Österreichisches Institut für Baubiologie und -ökologie GmbH, technology office – engineering office for physics
Main areas of work in addition to the management of IBO GmbH:

• Comfort and/or stress research (physiological time series analysis)
• Building physics, passive houses, comfort
• Development of building passes (Mischek eco-pass, TQ)
• Development of quantitative eco-criteria for residential construction subsidisation

Founder member of IG Passivhaus Ost

1995 completion of studies Diplom physics at the University of Vienna. Biomedical-physical dissertation for Diplom degree at the Atomic Institute of the Austrian Universities
1994-2009: Head of IBO product testing
Since 1995: member of the IBO board
2000-2011: board member of natureplus e.V. (international environmental quality seal)
Since 2001: part-time lecturer for building biology at the University for Art and Industrial Design Linz, architecture master class Gnaiger
Since 2005: member of various standardisation committees, such as CEN TC 350 "Sustainability of construction works"

Since 1992, work for the IBO; since 1997, member of the IBO board. 1996–2000 as member of the IBO founding team at the Danube University Krems, Centre for Building and Environment.
Main areas of work at the IBO:

• Management and supervision of research projects and publications
• Research: thermal comfort, fringe sciences
• Editing
• IBO workshop talks
• IBOmagazin

Since 1995, work for the IBO; since 2000, head of green academy, online correspondence course for ecological building.

Main areas of work at the IBO:

• green academy
• Building certification
• baubook, ixbau.at
• Development of criteria for green procurement
• Product testing
• Trade fair presentations, IBOmagazin, IBO homepage
• IBO society

Longstanding employee of the IBO. Main areas of work: dynamic building simulation TRNSYS, IBO product testing and IBO research (building ecology, quantitative indicators, building physics), extensive consultation work in the field of energy planning and building physics for minimal-energy and passive houses.

Since 2000, after completion of studies of environmental science at the ETH Zürich, work for the IBO.

• Eco-balances of building products
• Product testing

Since 1997, active in the fields of building physics, energy planning, ecological building, with main focus on building assessment, 2004 - 2008 evaluator for NÖ Wohnbauförderung, Danube University Krems.
Since 2007, work for the IBO in the field of

• Passive house certification
• EU Green Building (National contact point on behalf of ÖGNB)
• klima:aktiv Bauen und Sanieren (focus on non-residential buildings)
• TQB (Total Quality Building)
• IBO ÖKOPASS
• BREEAM International Assessor
• Building physics
• Work for various research projects (external costs in civil engineering, comfort in Klima.Komfort.Haus, new real estate standards, Optimising Comfort in Passive House Office Spaces, ...)

Studied Eco-Energy Engineering at the FH OÖ Wels.

Since 2009, work for the IBO.

• Building physics

Currently studying physics at the University of Vienna.

Since 2008, work for the IBO.

• Eco-balances of building products
• Sound measurements

Studied technical physics at the TU Vienna
Since 2008, work for the IBO.

• Building physics
• Ecosoft

Up to 2003, studied architecture at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, and research assistant at the Institute of Building Physics. Then self-employed architect in Vienna.

Since 2007, work for the IBO in building certification and product testing.

Further main areas of work:

• Building construction
• Building physics

Studied architecture at the TU Vienna, study trips to Sweden, South Africa and Pakistan. Main areas of interest: sustainable and creative design and construction. Since 2003, work for the IBO in the framework of various projects (Product testing, Energy pass, Building physics, IBOmagazin, IBO fair stand, IBO ÖKOPASS). Since 2007, congress organisation.

Studied architecture. Since 2008, work for the IBO.

• Energy pass
• Building assessment
• IBO ÖKOPASS.

Studied timber technology and management at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences

Since 2008, work for the IBO.

• Technical assistance to the management
• Innovationsscheck
• Building physics
• Consulting
• Passive house certification

• baubook
• Product testing

Since 1985, work for the IBO – department publishing, library, bookselling

• Librarian
• Graphic designer
• Bookshop clerk
• Canteen manager
• Caretaker

Since 2003, work for the secretary’s office of the IBO.

• Assistant to the management
• Office organisation and coordination
• Preparatory accounting and billing
• Help people to inform themselves
• Support for ongoing projects
• IBO congress and IBO homepage

Since 2007, work for the secretary's office of the IBO

• support of secretary's office
• IG-Passivhaus Ost
• support Future-Building
• support ZIT project

Studies mathematics at present.

Work for the IBO since 2005 and here your contact for:

• Questions regarding IBO membership
• Ordering of literature
• Advertisements in the IBOmagazin
• Preparatory accounting IBO society/billing
• Support to Product testing department

Environmental technician, chemist
Main areas of work: head of analytic laboratory, smells in interior spaces, tracer gas measurements, analysis of building tightness (BlowerDoor method), problems of black dust

Environmental analyst, generally accredited und court-certified expert
Main areas of work: organic substances, material tests, electromagnetic field measurement, building physics analyses, lectures, head of the working group “indoor air” at the BMfLFUW, part-time lecturer at the Centre for Construction & Environment/Danube University Krems

Physician and chartered environmental technician, certified according to VDI6022
Main areas of work: indoor air hygiene and microbial load of indoor air, mould in indoor spaces, testing of air-conditioning systems, workplace analyses according to the limit value regulations, emission and pollutant measurements of organic parameters

Master of Advanced Studies – environment management, waste management officer
Main areas of work: microbiology, laboratory analyses, consultation, concepts, organisation

Studied architecture at the TU Vienna.
Work for various architect’s offices.
Study trips to India, Morocco and Peru with focus on adobe building.
University course “Green and healthy building”.
Research projects on the topic of energy efficiency and sustainability.

Environmental analyst.
Main areas of work: building assessment, sensory odour tests, mould and pollutants in indoor spaces, consultation und organisation

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