Dr Dirk Schwede (PhD USyd AU, Dipl.-Ing.) studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the University of Stuttgart. He completed his doctorate at the University of Sydney in Australia in 2006. In 2008, he founded the consulting firm energydesign in Shanghai as a partner and was its Managing Director until the end of 2012.
From 12/2012 to 12/2017, Schwede was Robert Bosch Junior Professor for Sustainable Building at the University of Stuttgart. He was then research group leader of the „System Integration and Sustainable Building“ group at the Institute for Building Energy, Thermal Engineering and Energy Storage (IGTE) at the University of Stuttgart and worked on several major research projects on sustainable and energy-efficient construction in Vietnam and Cambodia, as well as on projects to implement the heat transition in Germany.
Dr. Schwede was Managing Director and partner of the engineering firm EGSplan international until 2022 and is currently Managing Director of OSBEE GmbH – the current parent company of energydesign in Shanghai. With OSBEE, Schwede works on energy-efficient and sustainable construction projects in Germany and abroad. He is a DGNB auditor and registered energy consultant for residential buildings, non-residential buildings and monuments as well as for energy audits in accordance with DIN EN 16247.
Since February 2022, Dirk Schwede has been Professor of Energy and Building Technology at Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches in the bachelor’s degree program “Sustainable Building Technology”.
academic career
| 02/2022 | – | today | Professor for Energy and Building Services, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Technische Hochschule Lübeck, Germany [link] |
| 07/2018 | – | 2022 | 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
| 01/2013 | – | today | managing partner, OSBEE Office for Built Environment Engineering, Stuttgart [link] |
| 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 | – | 09/2022 | 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] |