Experience

Technical Depth.
Investment Perspective.
Owner-Side Advice.

More than three decades of executive leadership and advisory experience across energy infrastructure, performance-based investment models and major asset transformation programmes in Europe and the Middle East.

Today, that experience is applied from one perspective: the owner’s.

Emirate-Wide Demand-Side Management Strategy — Abu Dhabi

Strategic DSM Roadmap & Portfolio Assessment | Legacy Engagement (2009–2010)

As Lead Consultant to a German ESCO, Winfried Haas led the Demand-Side Management (DSM) workstream of an emirate-wide energy strategy initiative for ADWEA (today part of the Department of Energy).

The engagement established a strategic baseline for improving energy performance across Abu Dhabi’s building portfolio, including the assessment of more than 30,000 buildings, identification of efficiency potential and prioritisation of buildings for further investigation.

Facts:

  • Scale: 30,000+ buildings evaluated,
  • Impact: ~35% efficiency potential identified.
  • Priorisation: 200+ buildings prioritized

Selected European Projects: Technical Depth in Practice

These selected projects reflect the founder’s track record in complex energy performance, infrastructure renewal and performance-based investment projects across high-value real estate.

Together with the Abu Dhabi portfolio-level advisory experience, they provide the technical and commercial foundation for HAAS Perspective’s owner-side approach to major investment decisions.

Conrad-Hotel

Hamburg / Germany

5-star Contrad-Hotel, Hamburg

Major Building Systems Retrofit

Energy performance retrofit of major air-handling systems, including grant optimisation and measurement & verification.

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Berlin / Germany

Energy Performance Contracting Deutsche Oper, Berlin

Energy Performance Contracting

Guaranteed-savings project achieving a verified 36% reduction in energy costs.

Levantehaus Shopping Mall

Hamburg / Germany

Levantehaus Shopping Mall

Major Building Systems Retrofit

Energy performance retrofit of major air-handling systems, including grant optimisation and measurement & verification.

ELBE Shopping Mall

Hamburg / Germany

Energy Efficiency Retrofit for ELBE Shopping Mall, Hamburg

Central Cooling System Retrofit

Energy performance retrofit of the central cooling system, including high-efficiency chillers.

Hamburg International Airport

Hamburg / Germany

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Major Building Systems Retrofit

Energy performance retrofit of major air-handling systems serving Terminal 1.

German Stock Exchange

Frankfurt / Germany

Deutsche Borse

Mission-Critical Infrastructure Recovery

Restoration of mission-critical cooling for the main trading floor following failures affecting chillers, air-handling units and thermal energy storage.

Event Center

Berlin / Germany

Energy Performance Contracting, FEZ - Berlin

Energy Performance Contracting

Guaranteed-savings project achieving a verified 26% reduction in energy costs over 12 years.

Deutsche Post AG
Building Portfolio

Berlin / Germany

Energy Performance Contracting for German Post

Portfolio Energy Performance Contracting

Large-scale EPC programme delivering 17,000 tonnes of annual CO₂ reductions across a building portfolio.

Jacob's Coffee Rostery

Berlin / Germany

Sustainable Energy Concept for Coffee Rostery

Industrial Decarbonisation Concept

Waste heat recovery concept using industrial process heat to supply district heating for a neighbouring residential area.

Public School Portfolio

Berlin / Germany

Energy Performance Contracting 30 Schools Berlin

Portfolio Energy Performance Contracting

Guaranteed-savings programme achieving a verified 20% reduction in energy costs and CO₂ emissions across 30 public school buildings.

Frankfurt Trade Fair tower

trade fair tower

Building Systems Performance Optimisation

Restoration of indoor climate performance and reduction of energy use through simulation-based optimisation of air-handling system controls.

Two Data Centers

Hamburg / Germany

Energy Efficiency Retrofit Data Center

Mission-Critical Infrastructure Retrofit

UPS system retrofit improving energy efficiency across two data centers.

Data Center

Hamburg / Germany

Energy Efficiency Retrofit for Chiller System of Data Center

Mission-Critical Cooling Retrofit

Retrofit of the central cooling system using high-efficiency chillers in a mission-critical data center environment.

Two Data Centers

Nürnberg, Munic / Germany

Energy Efficiency Retrofit for Data Center in Nürnberg, Germany

Investment Delivery Validation

Independent post-implementation validation confirming that funded energy-efficiency measures were implemented as approved and projected energy savings were achieved.

Data Center Operator

Cologne / Germany

qbeyond energy Audit

Portfolio Energy Assessment

EN 16247 energy audit covering the corporate headquarters, German branch locations and data center portfolio.

Data Center

Munic / Germany

Energy Efficiency Retrofit Data Center

Cooling & Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Concept

Demand analysis and energy modelling for the retrofit of a cooling and thermal energy storage system.

Residential Quarter

Berlin / Germany

Residential Quarter

Renewable Energy Supply Concept

Demand and energy modelling, system design and CAPEX/OPEX analysis for a renewable heating supply concept.

Townhouse Community

Berlin / Germany

Sustainable District Heating for Residential Townhouse Quarter

Low-Carbon District Energy Concept

Decentralised CHP-based district heating and power concept serving approximately 300 residential units.

Production Site

Flensburg / Germany

Energy Audit for Production Site in Flensburg, Germany

Industrial Energy Assessment

Energy assessment identifying efficiency and retrofit measures across heating, cooling, power supply, air-handling, building automation, electrical systems and lighting.

Group Headquarter & Production Site

Nordborg / Denmark

Carbon neutral production site Nordborg, Denmark

Net Zero Industrial Site

Energy assessment covering heating and cooling supply, electrical systems, air-handling and lighting at a production site that subsequently achieved net zero emissions.

Production Site

Grasten / Denmark

Energy Audit for Production Site in Denmark

Industrial Energy Assessment

EN 16247 energy audit covering cooling, ventilation, air-handling, compressed air systems and lighting.

Production Site

Heiligenhaus / Germany

Energy Efficiency Retrofit for Production Site

Industrial Energy Assessment & Retrofit Development

Energy audit and development of retrofit measures across multiple heating systems, compressed air, production hall cooling and ventilation.