On 1 February 2021, the amendment to the Bavarian Building Code came into force. In the future, the building material wood can be used in all building classes. The legal changes make building in Bavaria easier and faster, more space-saving and more cost-effective.
Further information: www.bauenmitholz.de/bayerischen-bauordnung-bauen-in-bayern-wird-einfacher-und-schneller/150/81844/
There is a shortage of housing in Europe's conurbations; Germany alone lacks about 1.5 million residential units (WE). For this reason, the federal government has decided to build 400,000 WE annually. At the same time, the federal government's climate protection plan foresees a significant decrease in building emissions from 209 million to 67 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents by 2030, which would correspond to an emission reduction of 68 % since 1990. Other European countries have also committed to implementing far-reaching climate protection targets. Against this background, many of those involved in construction are increasingly relying on wood as a renewable building material, in addition to energy-efficient construction and the use of renewable energies.
The Construction cost study on large timber housing estates and quarters in Europe (short Wooden housing study), financed from funds of the funding programme FUTURE CONSTRUCTION of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMWSB) and based at the Rottenburg University of Applied Sciences (HFR), systematically researches and records those projects in timber and timber hybrid construction that have already been realised or are currently in planning. In the process, the construction costs of the buildings are analysed as well as the motives of the investors and clients to build with wood. Another goal is to show how timber construction methods can be further established in the segment of housing estates and urban districts in order to expand the range of large-volume housing projects with an environmentally and climate-friendly variant.
The first results of the study will be presented at the 15th Congress Efficient Building with Wood in Urban Areas on 19 October 2022 in Cologne presented. So far, 118 large-scale housing projects with more than 100 units have been identified across Europe by the HFR researchers, 47 of which are located in Germany. Final results will be presented at the beginning of December at the 26th International Timber Construction Forum in Innsbruck presented on 30 November 2022 and also published in a brochure by the Information service wood published.
Supported by funds from the "Zukunft Bau" funding programme
Keywords:
Construction and operating costs, Building materials / Construction, DE-News, Research, Wood construction, New books and studies, News Blog Europe (without DE), Quarters, Settlements, Housing, XXL settlements
5:18 min, First broadcast: 11/19/2020, Available until 11/20/2021.
Wir im Saarland - The Magazine ∙ SR Television
"A quarter of a century ago, Bernd Janes looked for like-minded comrades-in-arms and founded an ecologically oriented housing estate on the outskirts of Kohlhof. At first, the new neighbors were eyed critically by the surrounding community. No wonder, because the houses were built in wood, four families shared one house and the gardens were not separated from each other by fences, but merged seamlessly into each other."
Link to post:
www.ardmediathek.de/...pioniere-die-erste-oekosiedlung-im-saarland-19-11-2020/...
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/holzbausiedlung-kleiner-hirschberg
Keywords:
Building Biology, DE-News, Movies, Movies 4 to 10 Min, Wood construction, News Blog Saarland, Settlements
On 30.6. the field test started in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia. For one year, scientists coordinate the operation of three combined heat and power plants with the use of three heat pumps, a PV system, a large lithium-ion storage unit and a private electric storage heating system to balance the PV and wind feed-in.
For this purpose, the combined heat and power plants use the heat storage capacity of the connected consumers: a leisure pool, an indoor swimming pool and a local heating network. Current weather forecasts are used to calculate optimal schedules for the individual plants. These schedules are sent to the plants via the internet and implemented on site. The loads on the electricity grid can also be taken into account, so that the much-discussed expansion of power lines in the electricity grid can be reduced in the long term.
Source: The city as a repository on
(the website was deactivated in February 2021)
Keywords:
DE-News, Energy storage, Research, Climate protection, News Blog NRW
NEW November 2015 | Types and constructions
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
Keywords:
DE-News, Wood construction, New books and studies, News Blog Europe (without DE)
