Career prospects Sustainable Buildings and Cities
As an energy and environmental engineer, you are in demand on the job market.
The Sustainable Buildings and Cities study field offers a wide range of professional fields. Here are some of the possible fields of activity:
- Consultancy for energy-efficient and sustainable buildings and areas
- Holistic energy and building technology planning and implementation
- Specialist planning of building physics with inclusion of sustainability aspects
- Sustainable renovations and operational optimizations
- Planning services for sustainable building labels, e.g. calculation of gray energy
- Sustainable urban development: heat reduction, mobility concepts, energy city consultations, etc.
"During my studies, I learned to think in a networked and holistic way in order to conserve resources and promote renewable energies. That helps me in my job and in my private life."
"We spend most of our lives in buildings and there is a lot of potential for sustainability there. I was able to get to know this through the 'Energy in buildings' specialization. Today, I work every day to ensure that more and more buildings in Switzerland are heated with renewable energy and help to reduce CO2 emissions."
Thanks to the specialist knowledge I acquired in the modules of the 'Energy in Buildings' specialization, I now have the tools to contribute to the energy transition and achieve the net-zero target. I was also able to apply this specialist knowledge in the areas of building technology, renewable energies and energy efficiency as part of my bachelor's thesis, where I was able to develop an energy concept for an alpine cheese dairy."