2023 Drinking Water & Heat Forum – new title plus even more content 

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The popular Drinking Water Hygiene Forum has now been given a new name and offers even more valuable input than before. This event programme will now operate under the title ‘Drinking Water & Heat Forum’. And it’s all in the name: buildings – new and old – must be supplied with drinking water and heat in a resource-efficient, climate-neutral way. The (technical) issues that arise from this fact can only be solved by an interdisciplinary approach. The new direction taken by the Forum aims to generate ideas, promote new approaches and create an opportunity for dialogue. Practical solutions and best practice, accompanied by key aspects from the latest technical codes, will be presented on six separate dates in February and March 2023. Places for these events are limited – please register here to avoid disappointment. 

Dates for the 2023 Drinking Water & Heat Forum 

Tue, 21 Feb 23, Hanover | Sheraton Hanover Pelikan Hotel
Weds, 22 Feb 23, Berlin | Hotel AMANO Grand Central
Thu, 23 Feb 23, Leipzig | Villa Ida Media Campus
Tue, 28 Feb 23, Fürstenfeldbrück | Event Forum 
Weds, 1 Mar 23, Leinfelden-Echterdingen | Filderhalle 
Thu, 2 Mar 23, Eppstein (Rhine-Main region) | Percuma

Further information will be provided in advance of your selected event and published on www.forum-trinkwasserhygiene.de. The website also provides full details of event fees.

Speakers at the 2023 Drinking Water & Heat Forum

These experienced speakers once again bring a wealth of expertise to the new Forum format. Q&A sessions with speakers will be provided after all of the talks in the event series.

Prof. Franz-Peter Schmickler
Dept. of Energy, Buildings and Environment, Münster University of Applied Sciences

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Olaf Kruse
Product Engineer, REHAU Industries SE & Co. KG 

Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Lütje
Product Portfolio Management, Danfoss GmbH

Dr Peter Arens
Drinking Water Expert, SCHELL GmbH & Co. KG

Dipl.-Ing. Marco Ohme
Head of Commercial Project Development, Viessmann Deutschland GmbH

Programme for the 2023 Drinking Water & Heat Forum 

Agenda for each of the six dates:

From 11:30 AM 
Arrival | Registration | Complimentary snack
    
12:20 PM 
Welcome | Introduction
How and what will we be needing to plan, install and operate tomorrow? 
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Olaf Kruse

12:30 PM 
Key points of the (new) technical codes for buildings – an overview

• GEG 2023
• BEG and BEW
• New TrinkW
• VDI 6023 Part 1 and VDI 3810 Part 2, VDI 6023 Part 3
• DIN EN 806/DIN 1988 – national supplements

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Olaf Kruse
Dipl.-Ing. Marco Ohme 
Prof. Franz-Peter Schmickler
     
Climate-neutral (dormitory) supply in new and existing developments

• Technologies
• Practical examples
• Challenges and solutions
• Lessons learned

Dipl.-Ing. Marco Ohme
     
Modern heat networks | contemporary approaches to clustered heat supply: safe + efficient + economical + long-term security

• Practical examples
• Planning modern heat networks
• Challenges and (technical) solutions
• Avoiding pitfalls in practice

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Olaf Kruse

2:30 p.m. (approx.)    
Coffee break and networking
     
Maintaining drinking water hygiene in times of (temporary) water scarcity and climate-neutral heat supply solutions

• Requirements from DVGW W 551 and VDI 6023 Part 1 to meet relevant targets
• Rethinking (simple) installations while keeping an eye on hygiene and budgets
• Reduced calculated flows – or ‘Washcloths instead of showers’?
• Potable water cold – but how?
• New German drinking water legislation (TrinkW): risk appraisal with a Water Safety Plan (WSP)

Dr Peter Arens
Prof. Franz-Peter Schmickler

Supplying hot water ‘climate-neutral heated’ economically and hygienically at all times – trying to square the circle?

• Needs-based (!) design – requirements and reality
• Centralised versus local in light of new requirements and framework conditions
• Where does circulation really makes sense?

Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Lütje

4 PM (approx.)    
Coffee break and networking
     
Dialog forum | Q&A session
… looking towards future standardisation and regulatory aspects, new technologies for climate-neutral heat supply, and the hygienic and resource-friendly supply of drinking water/hot water 

Q&A session with all speakers

5:30 PM (approx.)
End of event

Register today! 

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