In 2009, Nickl & Partner Architekten won the competition for new construction of the Derendorf Campus at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, where a refectory, lecture theatre centre and library are being created through new construction and conversion of faculty buildings. Gerhardt Eckl, overall project manager and CEO at Nickl & Partner, discussed aspects of sustainability in the planning is his lecture as part of the “Horizonte erleben”lecture series.