Dr Axel Laistner, Managing Owner, Axel Laistner Consulting, Germany

Speaker Biograghy: Dr Axel Laistner is a Sustainability Auditor of IASA eV. Sustainability has been an engineering guideline throughout his career, always balancing the target triangle: Business – for Humans – Now and in the Future. He has been active in developing airports and complex urban infrastructure using a system integrative approach for over 23 years. He co-founded the XL-AERO Association of International Specialists for Airport Design and Aviation Management. He is an Energy Auditor and an Energy Consultant for business and industry accredited by the German Government. He has made a point of always learning by working across interfaces not at them. This has proved to be a successful approach providing a multiplicity of experience variety: from masterplanning to maintenance setup, from supply system design to security and crisis stability enhancement, from airfield design and construction to building energy performance. He has learned that sustainability is found in synergies and win-win combinations.


Day 3 - 17 March
Session:
IASA Forum


09:45 - 10:15 - Never too early – sustainable by thinking ahead
Synopsis: Our highly technological world is segmented and broken up into specialisations, processes and systems of systems. The psychological focus is becoming ever more polarised between money in the developed and emerging world, and religion in parts of the world struggling either economically or with authoritarian policies, or both. It is increasingly falling to engineers and technical systems experts to create the opportunities for balance: making a profit/being useful to humans/having limited or renewable footprints. Solutions are available, courage is needed.

Audience will learn: