Katja Breitenfelder

Ms. Katja Breitenfelder is project manager for cloud computing, BIM und semantic technologies in the Project- and Business Development Unit at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP. In this role, she is leading the German Demonstrator and the work package “Solution Development“ of the Horizon Europe project ACCORD aiming to automize building permit and compliance processes across Europe. Focus of her research is on developing a BIM-based “Type Approval“ for the timber construction systems in Germany. Besides, she heads the „Digital Twin of Existing Buildings“ demonstrator at the Competence Centre „Mittelstand Digitalzentrum Bau“.

She is co-chair of the W3C Linked Building Data Community Group and speaker of the buildingSMART expert group “BIM and Timber Construction“.

Ms. Breitenfelder completed architectural studies at Hafencity Hamburg and architectural and urban planning studies at University of Fine Arts Hamburg.  She persued the postgraduate study programs “Energy and Environment“ at University of Kassel and “Master of Conservation of Monuments and Sites“ at KU Leuven, Belgium. Currently, she is participating in the Program ”European and Transnational Law of Intellectual Property and Information Technology” at University of Göttingen.

Her professional career also includes positions as policy adviser at the Gaia-X Hub Germany, established at acatech – the National Academy of Science and Engineering; as researcher at the Chair for Architectural Informatics, Technical University of Munich; and as historical building researcher at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Baden-Württemberg.