"BISKO" is neither a sausage nor a new chocolate bar, but the new "Municipal Accounting Standard". After four years of development, a methodology paper is now available that provides clear accounting rules for energy and greenhouse gas balances for municipalities in Germany. In a lengthy consultation process, coordinated and led by ifeu Heidelberg, questions such as "Is it permissible to include green electricity in the balance sheet?" or "Should the electricity mix of the municipality, the state or the federal government be used?" were clarified with scientists, municipalities and consulting institutes. It is hoped that municipal balance sheets will be calculated uniformly in the future and will thus be comparable.
The Senate today adopted a comprehensive catalogue of measures to accelerate the expansion of solar energy in Berlin, based on a proposal by Ramona Pop, Senator for Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry.
Senator Pop: "The potential study for the Solarcity master plan has shown that we can harvest 25 percent of electricity generation with solar energy from the roofs of Berlin. To achieve this, we must accelerate the expansion of solar energy in the city. It is necessary for the federal government to finally improve the legal framework for solar energy in cities. Nevertheless, we want to actively use the existing leeway at the state level. With the Solarcity Master Plan, we will expand information and advice, set incentives and also examine regulatory instruments. The implementation of the Solarcity Master Plan is a joint task for the Senate, but also for all Berlin stakeholders from business and society."
The expert recommendation Masterplan Solarcity was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and the expert group on the Solarcity Master Plan and includes a catalogue of 27 measures to accelerate solar expansion in Berlin as well as an accompanying study by the Fraunhofer Institute. One of the first steps towards implementation is the creation of a coordination office.
Since November 2018, 26 experts from the energy and solar industry, housing industry, associations and interest groups, state companies, science and administration have been supporting the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry as a group of experts in the creation of the Solarcity Master Plan. In seven meetings as well as several appointments to discuss the topic in greater depth, the expert group identified obstacles and opportunities for the expansion of solar energy in Berlin. It developed a broad mix of 27 measures in nine fields of action. The creation of incentives and better framework conditions is addressed as well as the removal of barriers and the need for public relations work and information.
The accompanying master plan study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems shows that the target of 25 percent solar power in Berlin is achievable if the potential of all owner groups is tapped in parallel. A PV capacity of 4,400 MWp would have to be installed in Berlin by the target year 2050 in order to be able to generate 14 petajoules of solar electricity per year. The potential for this is available in Berlin. The study provides an overview of its distribution among owner groups, different types of use and the districts. It becomes clear that the majority of the solar plants to be built can be realised by private actors and state-owned companies. Therefore, both the study and the catalogue of measures recommend the conclusion of partnership agreements between the actors and the Senate.
More and more people are answering the question "How do we want to live?" with "Together instead of alone." Community living has become very popular in recent years, both among young and older people. The forms of new residential, house and housing communities are diverse: from self-sufficient eco-villages and multi-generational housing projects to so-called "beguine projects" for women.
The ARL - Academy for Spatial Research and Planning took up this topic in the 1/2016 issue of "ARL News" under the title "Housing projects - from niche to trend?". Micha Fedrowitz contributed an article on communal living in Germany.
Publisher: German Federal Foundation for the Environment / Sabine Djahanschah
The ecological model settlement "Prince Eugene Park"on a former barracks site in Munich sets new standards in timber construction. Various timber construction methods and building types up to seven storeys are being tested side by side in eight building projects with the aim of a final scientific evaluation. Timber frame, timber frame and timber hybrid construction methods are being used.
Close cooperation with the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) and research commissions from the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) and the Technische Universität München (TUM) ensure a sound evaluation of the monitoring accompanying construction. Beyond the realization of living space, the project makes an active contribution to climate protection and sustainable urban development.
Embedded in the surrounding parkland, the new quarter will also offer an attractive range of social, cultural and commercial infrastructure. Building volume 4 presents the eight building types and examines the potential of the different construction methods in detail.
Authors: Zeno Dietrich, Sabine Djahanschah, Annette Hafner, Wolfgang Huß, Ulrike Klar, Wolf Opitsch, Arnim Seidel and Michael Storck
First edition: 2020 Format: 112 Pages, German, 21 x 27 cm, Swiss brochure Publisher: Detail Business Information GmbH, Munich
Great joy in Aachen: One of the central urban development projects is awarded special federal funding.
Mayor Sibylle Keupen: "This is a super message for our city!"
The Büchel old town quarter is one of 24 projects nationwide that are now being supported with a total of 75 million euros.
98 cities and municipalities had applied.
A most welcome piece of news reached the city of Aachen this morning (17 March 2021): Federal Minister Horst Seehofer has announced this year's selection of the "National Projects of Urban Development" and announced that the development of the Büchel old town quarter will receive up to 5.5 million euros in funding. Aachen is thus one of four municipalities in NRW to have been awarded the contract. With the amount of funding, the city is in third place nationwide.
Great news from Berlin: The federal government wants to support the development of the Büchel in Aachen's city centre with up to 5.5 million euros. Photo: City of Aachen / Andreas Herrmann
OBin Keupen: "We feel the spirit of optimism!"
"This is a great message for our city," says Mayor Sibylle Keupen in her first reaction. "We have long felt the spirit of optimism around the Büchel in Aachen. The demolition of the multi-storey car park is imminent, the planning workshop was a great success, many groundbreaking political decisions have been made, and more are on the horizon. Above all, many city makers are on board and want to be involved in a very concrete way. They want to participate, to shape, to plan, to build. The fact that this high level of commitment of all those involved here on site has now also triggered such a response at federal level encourages us to continue on the path of 'making a city at Büchel'."
City Planning Director Burgdorff: "Aachen can play in the Bundesliga!"
The municipal councillor for urban development, construction and mobility, Frauke Burgdorff, adds: "I am extremely pleased that Aachen, if it sticks together, can also play in the Bundesliga! Aachen's politicians have united behind the project and have given their backing to the state and federal governments. Thank you for that! But I would also like to express my sincere thanks to those who have done the substantive work here on site, to the municipal project manager Nils Jansen as well as to Christoph Guth and Antje Eickhoff, who have done an excellent job on the part of the municipal development company SEGA."
Making town at the Büchel
A special piece of the city at eye level is to be created at Büchel. It is being developed together with many committed people and institutions. With this approach, it has also precisely met the requirements of the call for proposals. The Federal Ministry's project overview states: "Knowledge, living, meadow" are the keywords under which a mixed-use, urban quarter is to be created in the heart of Aachen's old town in a cooperative and exemplary development process that is wanted and supported by the urban community.
The basis for the development is the exploratory procedure "Stadt machen am Büchel" (Making a city at Büchel), which the city of Aachen launched in spring 2020. City Planning Director Burgdorff sums up: "A multi-storey car park has been blocking the development of the old town for decades. We are tearing it down and building a new urban quarter. The urban community itself is developing the programme, urban design and investment strategy. This project offers a unique opportunity to find answers to the question of how a major wound in the old city can be healed with contemporary building-cultural responses."
The next steps
Following today's basic commitment by the federal government to fund the project, the detailed applications for funding will be drawn up in phase 2. In this ongoing process - and on the basis of upcoming landmark decisions of Aachen's municipal politics - it will now be worked out how the Büchel of the future will take shape with the funding millions.
National urban development projects
National urban development projects are nationally and internationally visible, larger-scale urban development projects with clear impulses for the respective municipality or city, the region and urban development policy in Germany as a whole. They are characterised by a special quality standard with regard to the urban development approach, the building culture aspects and the participation processes, contribute to the realisation of the federal government's building policy objectives and have innovation potential. National urban development projects are projects that generally solve tasks and problems of considerable financial dimension. The focus is on the major challenges currently facing cities and municipalities in Germany (e.g. preservation of existing buildings, conversions, sustainable neighbourhood development).
A total of 24 projects for forward-looking urban development are being funded by the federal government with a total of around 75 million euros. 98 cities and municipalities from all over Germany applied for the funding.
More info Interesting facts about the Büchel can be found on the Internet at www.buechel-aachen.de
From Aprill 2021 the Demolition work on the Büchel multi-storey car park. All the info on this has been presented as part of an online event. The stream is still available on the YouTube channel of the city of Aachen: https://youtu.be/KQqFq6v_edA.
Within the framework of a cooperative planning workshop, three teams of experts developed three exciting designs for the Büchel, each with a focus on the major themes of "knowledge, living, meadow". The final presentation of the planning workshop, which took place digitally in January 2021, is also still available as a stream: https://youtu.be/AWSb5Gx3gKA.
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