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In the documentary, the advantages of timber construction methods are presented using current buildings. The examples are:
- the new summit restaurant on the Nebelhorn
- Wooden skyscrapers in Vienna (24 storeys) and Vancouver (18 storeys)
- a house built over a large parking lot, in munich behind the Dantebad
- Schmuttertal High School Diedorf near Augbsurg in plus-energy construction (Bavarian Energy Award 2016)
Moderation: Gunnar Mergner
Author: Susanne Delonge
Editor: Armin Olbrich
BR Fernsehen, broadcast: 13.12.2016, online until 19.02.2025
29 min.
Link to the film in the BR-Mediathek: www.br.de/...holz-holzbau-architektur-video-100.html
Keywords:
DE-News, Movies, Movies 11 to 45 Min, Wood construction, News Blog Austria, PlusEnergy house/settlement
12/2013: Specialist advice on timber construction
The specialist timber construction advice service of the INFORMATIONSDIENST HOLZ provides individual and company-neutral assistance in planning and building with timber - from fundamental questions in building design to details in execution. These can be technical properties of building products, building law issues, design and structural issues or building physics contexts.
Architects and engineers, public and private building decision-makers, students and teachers as well as media representatives can obtain qualified and unbureaucratic information from experts whose knowledge is up to date.
This service is free of charge.
https://informationsdienst-holz.de/fachberatung-auskunftsservice-holzbau
2013: Book publication Urban timber construction. Manual and planning aid.
Edited by Peter Cheret, Kurt Schwaner, Arnim Seidel
Online
Order
Keywords:
DE-News, Wood construction
The Federal Government has agreed to fund one of four regional "Sustainability Strategies Network Offices" in Bonn. This was announced by Chancellor Merkel and the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) at the RNE annual conference in Berlin at the end of May.
Starting in September, the "Netzstelle Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien West" (RENN West) will bring together actors from civil society, municipalities and business. RENN West will be responsible for the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. The aim is to better anchor innovative future concepts for sustainable management and living. This can include, for example, low-emission mobility, more conscious consumption or the better coexistence of different generations in a neighbourhood.
The sponsor of RENN West is the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Agenda 21 NRW (LAG 21). Its concept won out over five other applicants in a competition. Funding for the Regional Network Offices comes from the Federal Chancellery, which coordinates the national sustainability strategy. For this purpose, 250,000 euros per year are available in Bonn for 5 years.
NRW Environment Minister Remmel, who coordinates NRW's sustainability strategy, congratulated the new network office: "I am pleased that this will further strengthen Bonn in its role as Germany's No. 1 sustainability centre. The cooperation with the international and national sustainability institutions already based in Bonn will certainly be very fruitful for RENN West."
NRW Minister Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense, who is responsible for One World policy in the state government, also welcomed the establishment of RENN West in Bonn: "In Bonn, very concrete work is being done on the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, such as combating climate change. The establishment of the new network office therefore fits perfectly into the international environment."
Bonn's Lord Mayor Ashok Sridharan was pleased about the good news: "The establishment of the regional network office of the German Council for Sustainable Development in Bonn fits perfectly with the profile of our city. The networking of municipalities, business and civil society to promote sustainable development is also an important concern for us as a city."
Sustainability Centre Bonn
As a German city of the United Nations, Bonn is currently home to 18 UN agencies. The largest UN institution in Bonn is the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The most recent addition in spring 2016 was the United Nations Staff College (UNSSC) branch dealing with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And only recently, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the UN cleared the way for the establishment of the UN SDG Action Campaign office by signing a corresponding memorandum of understanding.
Under the heading "UN in Bonn - Shaping Sustainability", the Bonn UN agencies support the targeted efforts of governments for a sustainable future in the areas of climate change, land degradation, biodiversity and ecosystem services, species conservation, global volunteerism, health, human security, disaster risk reduction, tourism as well as education.
In addition to federal authorities and development cooperation institutions, Bonn is also home to scientific institutions, companies and around 150 international and internationally active non-governmental organisations. They all make the international location Bonn a place from which sustainability is shaped.
Source: Press release City of Bonn, 31.05.2016
Further links:
Aug. 30, 2016, the Sustainability Center West begins operations: www.energieagentur.rlp.de/...
Keywords:
Stakeholders, Climate protection, News Blog Hesse, News Blog NRW, News Blog RLP, News Blog Saarland, Environmental policy
21.01.2020 Everyone is talking about sustainability - including the construction industry. A prize that the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) have been organising since today provides the perfect talking point: With the new "Federal Environment and Building Prize", which will be awarded for the first time in 2020, the initiators want to recognise projects that are exemplary in terms of sustainability - not only in the classic areas of existing and new buildings, but also in five other categories. All players in the construction sector can apply. The closing date for entries is 15 April 2020 and the patron of the competition is the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Svenja Schulze.
The desire of more and more building owners and planners to combine high utility value and architectural quality with Climate - and environmental protection has resulted in many exciting projects. They demonstrate by practical example that sustainable construction offers many advantages over the life cycle - also in terms of costs.
Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze: "This is precisely where the Federal Environment and Building Award comes in. On the one hand, the prize is intended to illustrate the spectrum of what is already structurally and technically possible today. On the other hand, it is intended to raise awareness of the outstanding examples through the award and thus invite imitation."
Professor Dirk Messner, President of the Federal Environment Agency: "It's about holistic solutions that incorporate the technology, the design of the building and its surroundings. Individual 'greenfield' projects are expressly not supported. In no other competition is the interplay between the environment and building assessed in such a way as in the Federal Environment & Building Award."
About the Federal AwardIn order to show the breadth of sustainable building, the Federal Award comprises the categories "Residential buildings", "Non-residential buildings", "Neighbourhoods" and "Sustainability and innovations". The first two categories focus in particular on the energy-efficient refurbishment of existing buildings, as this is where the greatest need for action exists from a climate protection perspective.
In addition to these competition categories, the BMU and UBA also award three special prizes for particularly innovative approaches. Under the headings "Resilience" and "Sufficiency", the focus is on adaptation to climate change and strategies for reducing the use of resources. Building projects that take particular account of aspects of biodiversity and thus make a substantial contribution to the protection and implementation of "urban nature" are also to be honoured. The third field "Building envelope & building product" is intended for novel solutions with innovative materials and building constructions.
Conditions of participationDue to the thematic breadth, all players in the construction sector are invited to apply: from clients and property developers to architecture, building services, urban and landscape planning offices, manufacturers and research institutions. The competition is aimed at buildings or neighbourhoods completed in Germany that are at an advanced stage of planning; multiple applications in different categories are possible.
What awaits the winnersThe award winners can look forward to public recognition on several levels. The award ceremony will take place on 29 September at a congress on sustainable building at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in Berlin, where the award-winning projects will be presented to experts and the media. The award-winning projects and their plus points will also be presented on the websites of the UBA and the Federal Ministry for the Environment - including in the form of videos: This is because the UBA is having films made about the award-winning sustainability examples, which the winners can then use for their own public relations work. In addition, all award-winning projects will be documented in a book.
Interested parties can find more information on the conditions of participation in the Federal Environment & Building Award and the selection procedure on the UBA website:
www.umweltbundesamt.de/bundespreis-umwelt-bauen-start
The application deadline is 15 April 2020.
Keywords:
DE-News, Building, Climate protection, Mix of uses, Quarters, Resource efficiency, Settlements, Sufficiency, Transition Town, Contests & Prizes, Housing, Housing projects, Ecology
