We will make it GREEN instead of GREY!

Team

We are an inter-disciplinary team of business and research representatives. Our aim is to promote green and living walls in all of Austria. A number of sectors and disciplines, such as landscape planning, forestry, cultural technology, corporate government, IT and cyber-security as well as engineering, give us our unique shape.

Susanne Formanek

Director

TECHNOLOGY_FUNDING_RESEARCH

My areas of expertise:
Sustainable and energy efficient buildings, construction biology and ecology, grants, forestry, innovation processes, surveys and assessments.

Additional roles and responsibilities:
President IBO (Austrian Institute for Healthy and Ecological Building), member of the Presidential Council of the Austrian Standards International (ASI)

Thomas Szalay

DIRECTOR

INNOVATION_TECHNOLOGY_ECONOMY

My areas of expertise:
Corporate management and organisation, strategy development, analysis, definition and development of business fields and growth potentials, sustainability, circular economy, soil sealing

Vera Enzi

on baby break

TECHNOLOGY_RESEARCH_KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

My areas of expertise:
Green Infrastructure, nature based solutions, green roofs, green and living walls, rain gardens, permeable pavings, vertical farming, innovation processes, research

Additional roles and responsibilities:
Vice-President European Federation of Green Roof and Wall Associations (EFB)

Elisabeth Weiss-Tessbach (prev. Gruchmann-Bernau)

on maternity leave

EVENTS_PROJECTS_ECOLOGY

My areas of expertise:
standards, biodiversity, wild bees, solargreenroofs, landscape planning, network, events and development.

Gerald Hofer

PROJECT MANAGEMENT, TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY_INITIAL CONSULTATION_RESEARCH

My areas of expertise:
Cultural technology, hydrology, green and living walls, urban gardening, research, consultation, IT

Additional roles and responsibilities:
Leader of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences community garden

Isabel Mühlbauer

PROJECT WORK, CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

PROJECTS_DESIGN

My areas of expertise:
Sustainable & energy-efficient building, building physics, visualizations, interior and surfacedesign, graphic design

Katharina Mauss

PROJECT WORK, CERTIFICATION

GREENING BUILDING PROJECTS_CONSULTING

My areas of expertise:
Landscape architecture and -planning, communication, green roofs and walls, project consultation, research

General secretary of the Austrian green roof and walls association VfB

Rafael Werluschnig

SPATIAL PLANNING, PROJECT WORK

SPATIAL PLANNING_PROJECTS_CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

My areas of expertise:
Spatial planning, urban development, concept development, green infrastructure

Sara Telek

COMMUNICATIONS, CREATIVE MIND

MEDIA_MARKETING_GREEN BUILDING

My areas of expertise:
Media, communications, public relations, green marketing, organisation & strategy

Isabelle Haymerle

PROJECT WORK, TECHNOLOGY

NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS_PROJECTS_CONSULTING

My areas of expertise:
Green-blue infrastructure, cultural engineering and water management, stormwater management, sustainable construction, sustainable urban development

Teresa Losonc

OFFICE MANAGEMENT

ADMINISTRATION_ORGANISATION_COMMUNICATION

My areas of expertise:
Communications, project management, office management

Stefanie Kotrba

PROJECT WORK

PROJECTS_COMMUNICATION_SCIENCE

My areas of expertise:
ecological landscaping, biodiversity, ethnology, international organisations, human rights, social and cultural anthropology, conflict resolution und peacebuilding

Irene Zluwa

Project Management

VEGETATION (TECHNOLOGY)_SCIENCE_ART

My areas of expertise:
Greening of buildings, landscape architecture and planning, urban green-blue infrastructures, research, practical implementation, knowledge transfer, excursions

Lotta Steger

PROJECT WORK

SCIENCE_CONSULTING

My areas of expertise:
urban green-blue infrastructures, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban rainwater management, consulting, visualisations

GREENING BUILDINGS ASSOCIATION

We are supported in a broad range of activities by our board:

Gerold Steinbauer

FIRST CHAIRMAN OF THE GREENING BUILDINGS ASSOCIATION

BUSINESS_FINANCES_CONTROLLING

My areas of expertise:

Leak location and monitoring, permeable pavings, certification, quality assurance

Additional roles and responsibilities:

State-certified expert for greening buildings

Christian Oberbichler

SECOND CHAIRMAN OF THE GREENING BUILDINGS ASSOCIATION

TECHNOLOGY_IMPLEMENTATION_KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

My areas of expertise:

Green roofs, green and living walls, building materials, material science, standard, certification, quality assurance

Additional roles and responsibilities:

Lecturer on greening buildings at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences , Vienna