Lamia Messari-Becker

Lamia Messari-Becker. Photographer Enrico Santifaller

Lamia Messari-Becker (* 1973 in Larache , Morocco ) is a German civil engineer and has been a professor of building technology and building physics at the University of Siegen since 2013 . From July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2020, she was a member of the German Government's Advisory Council for Environmental Issues (SRU), where she represented civil engineering and sustainable urban development .

In 2020 Lamia Messari-Becker was admitted to the Club of Rome based in Winterthur (Switzerland). The association of experts from various disciplines from more than 30 countries has been committed to a sustainable future for mankind since 1968.

Life

Lamia Messari-Becker lived in Morocco until 1992, where she graduated from Baccalauréat de l'Enseignement Secondaire in Kénitra . In 1992 she traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany to study. After a language course in Krefeld, she completed the state preparatory college at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . She then studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and received a diploma in 2001. From 2001 to 2009 she was a research assistant there. In 2006 she completed her doctorate (concept for sustainable emission reduction in existing residential buildings including CO ₂ certificates) at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, in cooperation with the Department of Law and Economics at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

From 2009 to 2014 she worked at a planning office in Frankfurt am Main, where she was responsible for the planning areas of building physics, energy efficiency and sustainability. Lamia Messari-Becker was a lecturer for structural planning, later for building physics and energy-efficient building at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. In 2013 she taught the sustainable building module at the Technical University of Central Hesse in Gießen. In 2014 she was appointed professor for building technology and building physics at the University of Siegen. Lamia Messari-Becker is married and lives in Darmstadt.

research

Lamia Messari-Becker conducts research on resource efficiency, climate protection and sustainability in building construction and urban development as well as on municipal strategies for climate protection. Lamia Messari-Becker deals with methods and instruments for saving resources and reducing CO ₂ in the building sector and in cities, including analyzes of the introduction of CO ₂ certificate trading in existing residential buildings. Research focuses on life cycle-oriented planning methods, circular construction and the use of recycled concrete, balancing in the life cycle (gray energy and CO ₂ footprint of buildings / cities), CO ₂ avoidance costs of energetic renovation measures, analyzes of energy standards in new buildings, energy standard-related typologies in existing residential buildings, use of geothermal energy in existing buildings, energetic urban redevelopment using neighborhood approaches, integrated municipal climate protection concepts, with special consideration of the existing building and the use of local renewable energies (“urban energy transition”). At the interface between technology and social affairs, Messari-Becker deals with barriers to energy-related renovations, public participation and cooperation between energy consumers and energy suppliers (including contracting, energy cooperatives) and their role in municipal climate protection strategies.

Offices

Messari-Becker was nominated by the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, on April 27, 2016 Barbara Hendricks , the Expert Council of the Federal Government on the Environment appointed. There she represents the areas of civil engineering and sustainable urban development. The term of office lasts until July 2020. ^[obsolete] On June 1, 2016, Birgit Keller, the Thuringian Minister for Infrastructure and Agriculture, appointed her to the Advisory Board of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Thuringia. The term of office ends on May 30, 2019. ^[obsolete]

Positions

Lamia Messari-Becker advocates a holistic view of sustainability in the construction industry. In June 2015, in the German construction magazine, she called for socio- and building-cultural access to issues of energy and resource efficiency and the sustainability of the built environment. She also called for a resource-conscious circular economy in the construction sector and an update of the development plans and building regulations in Germany in line with change. In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, she criticized the fact that outdated and non-modernized building regulations barely or insufficiently meet today's requirements, including sustainability, energy efficiency and the creation of inexpensive living space.

Messari-Becker takes positions on the energy transition, sustainable urban development, the gap between town and country and new residential construction.

As a member of the Federal Government's Advisory Council on Environmental Issues, she represented differing views on several occasions. Initially, the differing views appeared as a footnote. In the special report of the SRU “Governing Democratically within Ecological Limits - To Legitimate Environmental Policy”, she referred to recommendations regarding selected parliamentary instruments and an amendment to the Basic Law that was appended to the special report for the first time in the normal format.

Engagement (selection)

Lamia Messari-Becker volunteers for integration, diversity, internationality, equality and social issues.

In 2004 she took part at the invitation of Minister of State a. D. Kerstin Müller at the Foreign Office at a panel discussion as part of an international conference "Women in the Islamic World, Muslim Women in Germany - Positive Role, Models".

In the same year, at the invitation of the ambassador a. D., Daniel Coats from the United States Department of State, during the tenure of US Secretary of State Colin Powell, participated in the US Government's International Visitor Program, “Managing Religious Diversity in a Multi Ethnic Society”.

In 2009 she took part at the invitation of the Hessian Minister for Justice, Integration and Europe a. D. Jörg-Uwe Hahn (FDP) and during the term of office of the Hessian Prime Minister a. D. Roland Koch (CDU) took part in the first Hessian integration conference.

In 2009, at the invitation of the Ambassador in London, Georg Boomgaarden, she was a participant in the German-British conference “Integration of Communities in Germany and Great Britain: Success or Failure?” In London.

In 2010 she discussed a. a. with the Minister of State a. D., Cornelia Pieper (FDP) at the Federal Foreign Office on the subject of "The Image of Women in the Dialogue of Cultures".

Awards

Lamia Messari-Becker was accepted into the US government's International Visitor Program in 2004 during the tenure of US Secretary of State Colin Powell .

Memberships

• Since 2020: Club of Rome
• Since 2020: Convention of the Federal Building Culture Foundation
• 2016–20: Advisory Council for Environmental Issues
• 2019–16: Advisory Board of the International Building Exhibition Thuringia IBA
• Association of Consulting Engineers VBI
• Chamber of Engineers Hessen IngKH

Publications (selection)

Books and contributions to books

• Services for sustainability certification, new publication of the AHO commission, issue 33, Bundesanzeiger Verlag, 2016
• Climate protection concept for the city of Riedstadt, April 2013, as author
• Life cycle planning - basics, methods and case studies; Building physics calendar 2013, Ernst W. and Son, Berlin, 2013
• with Genske, D .: Energy-efficient urban renovation and climate protection; Building physics calendar 2013, Ernst W. and Son, Berlin, 2013
• with Bollinger, K .: Integrated planning processes for more resource-efficient construction, BDB-Jahrbruch, Bund Deutscher Baumeister, 2013
• with Santifaller, E .: Energy Projects - Partnerships and Perspectives of Cooperation, Arab German Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Berlin 2012
• with Santifaller, E .: Year Book of Construction and Consulting, Arab German Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Berlin / Doha 2012
• Data sheets of ecological parameters of structural renovation measures on existing buildings; Building physics calendar 2010, Ernst W. u. Sohn, Berlin, 2010
• CO ₂ avoidance costs of energetic renovation measures for existing residential buildings, building physics calendar 2010, Ernst W. u. Sohn, Berlin, 2010
• Concept for the sustainable reduction of emissions in existing residential buildings including CO ₂ certificates, dissertation Technical University of Darmstadt, 2006

Sponsorships

• Point of view: The durability of our actions is what drives us to innovate, as the patron of the DBZ issue 06/15 on sustainability DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, Bauverlag GmbH, Gütersloh

Scientific papers

• Efficiency vs. Resilience of buildings and quarters using examples, Symposium of the Sparkassen Foundation Environment and Damage Prevention and the TU Dresden “Resilience of Buildings and Settlements in Climate Change”, Stuttgart 2015, in Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 3/2015, Ecological Economy 3/2015, Environment currently 10/2015
• Life cycle-oriented assessment methods, DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, Bautechnik, issue 06/15, Bauverlag BV GmbH, Gütersloh, 2015
• Energetic district and urban renovation using the example of the city of Riedstadt - A research report, building physics, 05/14, Ernst W. u. Sohn, Berlin, 2014
• Buildings - building clusters - urban spaces. Elements of a climate protection concept using the example of the city of Riedstadt, civil engineer, 07/14, Springer, Düsseldorf, 2014
• with Mettke, A., Knappe, F., Storck, U., Bollinger, K., Grohmann, M .: Recycling Concrete in Practice - A Chance for Sustainable Resource Management, Structural Concrete, Ernst W. u. Sohn, Berlin 2014
• Life cycle-oriented planning of building envelopes, 2nd Darmstadt Engineering Congress Building and Environment, proceedings p. 739–744, Darmstadt 2013
• Sustainable urban development - report on research for practice, sb 13 Munich, Implementing Sustainability - Barriers and Chances, 2013
• with Bollinger, K., Grohmann, M .: Life Cycle Assessment as a Planning Tool for Sustainable Buildings, 3rd Int. Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, Austria, 2012
• with Bollinger, K., Grohmann, M .: Green Homes through LCC (A) -based Planning of Multi-Functional Building Skin, 3rd Int. Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, Austria, 2012
• with Bollinger, K., Grohmann, M .: Strategies for Sustainable Existing Neighborhoods, CISBAT, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2011
• with Bollinger, K., Grohmann, M .: Multi-family passive houses in monolithic construction - first experiences, building physics, Ernst W. and Son, Berlin, 2011
• Sustainable renovation? On the ecological effectiveness and economic efficiency of energetic renovation measures, building physics, 05/2008, Ernst W. u. Son, Berlin 2008
• with Reinhardt, T .: Energy supply based on geothermal energy - independence and environmental protection are at our feet, Tiefbau, 12/2008, Munich, 2008

Web links

• Lamia Messari-Becker - Department of Architecture - University of Siegen

Individual evidence