Building a research building sustainably with its high technical requirements and numerous laboratories is a great challenge, which was solved well in Erlangen. The building can be operated efficiently for many years thanks to flexible room design, decentrally arranged technical units, and energy-saving control of the systems. 

In the MPL building, many sustainability criteria have been implemented almost ideally - approaches that the working group would like to adopt for other research institutions in the future. "We are working on formulating criteria for future research buildings to be constructed in a sustainable and CO2-neutral way," says Christina Böhm from the Max Planck Society. The goal is to design buildings not only for a single defined purpose but to be able to use them sustainably over a long period.