Benedikt Empl (Master of Science), was gained practical experience as a production engineer in a medium-sized company after completing his bachelor's degree in wood technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim. The master’s degree in Resource-efficient and Sustainable Building at the Technical University of Munich enabled him to focus on research in construction. He has started to work at the “Research and Development” department at the FIW München as a student trainee and did his master's thesis with the subject area of sufficiency as a sustainability strategy in living in cooperation with the department. Since graduating in 2021, he has been working as an engineer and performs building modeling and data analysis tasks. He has a particular research interest in sustainable building and timber construction. 

• FLAMME (Fairness, Lastenverteilung und Akzeptanz des Mietrechts bei Modernisierungen für Energieeffizienz) a project about fairness, burden sharing and acceptance of tenancy law for modernizations for energy efficiency
• THEA (Development of a thermal conductivity meter for temperatures between 800 °C and 1000 °C)
• Evaluation for the funding programm "Bundesförderung für effiziente Gebäude (BEG)" from 2021 to 2023
• Energy assessment of existing buildings (Energetische Bewertung bestehender Gebäude)

• Determination of cost parameters, CO2 reduction potential and refurbishment strategies for energy-efficient refurbishment in the housing sector of municipal housing associations in Munich
• Evaluation of the funding program "Energy-efficient construction and refurbishment - residential buildings (EBS WG) as part of the CO2 building refurbishment program of the BMWi in the funding period 2018 to 2021"
• Background paper on the building strategy Climate Neutrality 2045 for the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection
• Potential study of energy-efficient roof refurbishment based on the Building Model Germany - Boundary conditions for the implementation of a "One-Million-Roofs-Renovation-Program" until 2025
• Meta-study for the improvement of the data basis in the building sector as a service in the framework contract for the consulting of the department II of the BMWK

• Master thesis at the Technical University of Munich: A New Evaluation Methodology to Identify the Effects of Sufficiency Aspects on the Sustainability of Residential Buildings