Typologically organised overview with 24 current timber buildings
Various typologies and constructions in timber: wide-span halls, lightweight densification and prefabricated building elements
Current timber engineering at a glance
There are many reasons for and advantages to building with wood compared to conventional construction methods: Wood is a renewable building material and, as a CO2 sink, helps to protect the climate. At the same time, thanks to modern calculation and production methods, it can be used for numerous construction tasks. Wood has excellent structural and indoor climate properties and can be easily combined with all other common building materials.
Based on 24 international projects, this specialist book provides an overview of the variety of possibilities currently realised in modern timber construction. In texts, images and plans, the contributions document both the architectural and structural qualities of contemporary timber constructions, from the design planning to the supporting structure right down to the last detail.
- Typologically organised overview with 24 current timber buildings
- Various typologies and constructions in timber: wide-span halls, lightweight densification and prefabricated building elements
NEW November 2015 Authors: Lennartz, Marc Wilhelm / Jacob-Freitag, Susanne
28.0 x 22.0 cm
192 pages
approx. 240 illustrations in colour, 100 line drawings
Hardcover
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-0356-0455-9
344 pages, softcover,
ISBN 978-3-96238-199-8,
22,00 € (D).
Also available as an e-book.
Cities without growth - a vision hardly imaginable so far. But climate change,
waste of resources, growing social inequalities, and many other
Future threats are fundamentally calling into question the previous panacea of growth. How do we
we live together today and tomorrow? How do we design a good life for everyone in the city?
While in individual niches these questions are already being answered to some extent, there is a lack of
still lacking comprehensive designs and transformation approaches that would fundamentally
contour a different, solidary city. The project Post-Growth City dares to make this attempt.
In this book, conceptual and pragmatic aspects from different areas of
of urban policy are brought together, pointing out and linking new paths. The contributions
discuss urban growth crises, transformative planning, and conflicts over
design power. Last but not least, the question of the role of urban utopias will be revisited.
is being put forward. This is intended to initiate a long overdue debate on how necessary
urban turnarounds can be realized through a socio-ecological reorientation on the ground.
On Saturday 14.4.2018, around 13,000 to 15,000 people took to the streets in Berlin under the slogan "Resistance - together against displacement and rent madness". 254 initiatives and organizations (see mietenwahnsinn.info/initiativen) called for the protest march. Many Berliners fear for their existence due to high housing costs.
Article "Large demonstration in Berlin - thousands against rent madness" in the taz: http://taz.de/Grossdemonstration-in-Berlin/!5498560/
3 min. video (Länderspiegel ZDF):
www.zdf.de/...grossdemonstration-in-berlin-rund-13-000-gegen-mietenwahnsinn-100.html
However, the regulatory framework remains unsuitable for the widespread market deployment of energy storage systems.
The industry figures published annually by BVES show a fundamentally positive development in retrospect for 2020 and in the forecast for 2021. Across all technologies and segments, sales in the energy storage industry grew by over 10 percent to EUR 7.1 billion in 2020.
The growth drivers are the trends towards system integration, flexible sector coupling and electromobility, particularly in the household and commercial sectors. 300,000 home storage units alone are now installed in households and ensure a secure self-supply of green energy in the electricity, heating and mobility sectors. 300,000 home storage units provide 2.3 GWh of green electricity, enough for the annual washing of more than 20,000 households or to drive an e-car around the world more than 170 times.
Urban Windelen, Federal Managing Director BVES: "An addition of over 100,000 home storage units alone in one year is a great result. And at the same time a clear signal that citizens in households, commerce and industry increasingly want to rely on storage technologies to make their energy supply secure, green and cost-efficient. Politicians should finally listen to this signal and provide the highly innovative German storage industry with a suitable framework for its products. Relying solely on grid expansion and squeezing people into an outdated energy system will not be enough for a successful energy transition."
While the household segment was able to grow disproportionately in the Corona year 2020, the industrial and commercial storage segment suffered a decline of around 20 percent due to the pandemic. Germany also continues to evade the international trend towards the increased use of large-scale storage in the system infrastructure. This market segment is stagnating at a low level. The trend towards hydrogen solutions finds a difficult environment in Germany, so that market applications on an industrial scale cannot (yet) establish themselves. In contrast, thermal storage systems are developing well and are increasingly being used in industry in particular, contributing to decarbonisation.
Overall, the industry expects a significant recovery of the storage market in the industrial segment in 2021. The drivers here are flexible sector coupling in the direction of heat, the trend towards electromobility with clever charging solutions including storage, and self-supply solutions with green electricity to green hydrogen.
"Without energy storage, the energy transition is missing something. This is becoming increasingly obvious. Technically, the industry can do pretty much anything. Various technologies for all sectors and all applications are ready and operational. Now all that needs to be done is to finally release the regulatory brakes. Especially if we want to secure and support the domestic technical excellence and high value creation of the industry in Germany and Europe." says Urban Windelen.
The BVES industry figures 2021 are available via this link available.
The occasion for the publication is the international conference ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS 2021, organized by BVES in cooperation with Energy Storage Europe and EUROSOLAR e.V.. The two-day online conference ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS 2021 will feature parallel discussion panels and workshops on current trends in the storage industry.
Source: PM of the Bundesverband Energiespeicher from
The new housing development "Ludmilla Wohnpark" was built in Landshut with more than 180 residential units in plus-energy construction. Five single-family houses, two semi-detached houses, six terraced houses and eight multi-family houses with a total of 55 flats were built on a plot of around 7,300 square metres.
Researchers from Munich University of Applied Sciences and the Technical University of Dresden are evaluating the quarter and optimising the technology in operation. There is an initial report on this in the BINE-Info: www.bine.info/...plusenergie-konzept-in-siedlung-getestet
(the ESD info service was discontinued at the end of 2020)
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Current timber engineering at a glance 
