Konstantin Saure

Master of Engineering (M. Eng.)

INZIN Institut
Werdener Str. 4
40227 Düsseldorf

Tel.: +49 157 54729602
E-mail: konstantin.saure(at)inzin.de

 

 

Vita

Konstantin Saure has been a scholarship holder and lecturer at the INZIN Institute since January 2023 and is develops a “Resource strategy for the state capital Düsseldorf” as part of his scholarship at Stadtwerke Düsseldorf. During his Master’s degree, he worked as a research assistant on the state-funded project “WIR!-Bündnis REEgion now – Regionales Wertschöpfungsbündnis Lifelines in NWB”. He completed his Master’s degree in the interdisciplinary course “Energy Efficiency of Technical Systems” at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. Prior to this, he completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.

Research topic

Globally, cities are responsible for a large proportion of resource consumption, CO2 emissions and around half of the waste generated. Due to the growing world population and urbanization, these effects will continue to increase in the future. In order to reduce resource consumption and emissions, a transformation from the current predominantly linear economy to a circular one is necessary. In cooperation with Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, scenarios for the potential development of material flows are being developed and the prospects for an urban circular economy evaluated. Strategies are derived from the scenarios, which provide municipal utilities with recommendations for the direction of their business models.

Supervision

First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Faulstich, TU Dortmund University
Place of doctorate: Faculty of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund

Keywords

Circular economy, urban material flows, resource management