1:07 min, from 08/13/2020
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Forest Minister Peter Hauk MdL: "With our call for ideas, we want to further promote municipal timber construction in the state and further consolidate our nationwide position as the No. 1 timber construction state".
A total of around 6.5 million euros in funding from the Baden-Württemberg timber construction campaign is available for the call for ideas for municipal timber construction concepts.
The online application deadline is February 12, 2020.
"In view of the global climate development, there is no way around the increased use of wood as a renewable and climate-friendly building and insulation material. Only buildings with a high proportion of wood can store larger amounts of carbon over centuries. With our call for ideas, we want to further promote municipal timber construction in the state and further consolidate our nationwide position as the No. 1 timber construction state," said the Minister for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection, Peter Hauk MdL, in Stuttgart on Friday (13 November). The aim is to establish Baden-Württemberg as a model of climate-conscious building culture. As far as possible, the state's building projects would be implemented in timber and timber hybrid construction. Now the state is also supporting the municipalities in their development towards climate-friendly construction with wood.
"The call for ideas focuses primarily on municipal concepts and approaches in urban development that lead to the implementation of timber construction projects. We are looking for new innovative approaches, for example in our own properties, neighbourhood development or the creation of entire settlements", explained Minister Hauk. This requires committed and innovative municipalities that lead the way as trendsetters. The ideas competition is intended to provide incentives for this. "Those who build with the renewable raw material wood protect the climate and strengthen regional economic cycles. The timber and mixed timber construction methods are ideal, for example, for adding on to existing buildings, closing gaps between buildings or renovating existing buildings", explained the Minister. Numerous projects are already proving that high-quality and sustainable further development of urban and rural areas with wood is economical and brings added value for the population.
The state is therefore promoting greater climate awareness in the construction industry with the Baden-Württemberg timber construction offensive. Wood is the only relevant building material that has a favourable CO2-balance and achieves an immediate storage effect. Thanks to innovative processing with low energy consumption, wood is used in a wide variety of forms and can contribute to a sustainable building culture with architectural accents.
Municipalities are invited to submit approaches to planning and building with wood in building construction. These can be initial ideas that must be assigned to one of the following four categories:
1. development and conception of the construction and renovation of own properties,
2. instruments and approaches of urban planning / development,
3. information, advice and education of those willing to build by the municipalities (communication)
4. other/special route.
The submission of ideas for the planning of individual objects, as well as neighbourhood and settlement approaches, consulting and qualification offers (internal and external), communication strategies and public relations, but also other formats in the municipal planning context are conceivable.
The call is designed to be low-threshold in order to address many municipalities. In a two-stage application process, a rough concept is first submitted online in the form of a short idea sketch. After an evaluation by a group of experts, selected municipalities have the chance to deepen the project idea and prepare it for implementation. Financial support of up to 20,000 euros each is available for this (1st stage). After a positive evaluation, there is the possibility of receiving further funding of up to 400,000 euros in the second stage for the implementation of their project idea (2nd stage).
The deadline for submitting a short outline of ideas via the online application is 12 February 2021 (1st stage). Interested municipalities can find more information on the website of the Timber Construction Offensive at www.holzbauoffensivebw.de
Keywords:
Funding, Wood construction, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Quarters, Environmental policy, Housing
While the emergency aid for companies is getting underway, the debate about possible post-crisis economic stimulus packages is also gaining momentum. The German Green Business Association is proposing a transformation fund to combine a new start for the economy with social aspects and environmental and climate protection.
"We must also place the new start of the economy under the sign of a solidary and ecological transformation" demands UnternehmensGrün managing director Dr. Katharina Reuter. Of course, hedging risks in the economy is the order of the day, so that Germany does not see an all too violent wave of bankruptcies. "Just because some companies are not yet green enough, we cannot put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk here," Reuter said. And further: "However, a holistic response to the Corona crisis also includes thinking further about economic policy - and here we are clearly calling for a transformation fund, an innovation and investment initiative for the social and ecological restructuring of the economy."
For the Corona crisis also shows the imbalances that have resulted from today's economic system: Austerity measures and privatisation in the health system, too few and too poorly paid skilled workers there, dependence on global supply relationships even for system-relevant products (e.g. protective clothing), environmental pollution and climate crisis with the associated risks for people, transfer of jobs to low-wage countries or the death of local traders. This is where the failures of government policy in recent years come to the fore in the most blatant form. "It annoys us to no end when Federal Minister of Economics Altmaier now suddenly pushes for local production - why didn't he use his time in office for appropriate policy instruments?", said Reuter.
"We need a rethink," Mathias Kollmann, UnternehmensGrün board member and managing director of Bohlsener Mühle, is also convinced. "We as Bohlsener Mühle will get more involved in the regional development of agriculture and supply chains after the Corona crisis. Humanity must emerge stronger from such crises and that also means learning lessons - also for our economic system!"
Carola von Peinen, UnternehmensGrün board member and founder of Talents4Good: "We need to use the shutdown to redefine our guiding principles and values as a society and challenge the maxim of economic growth at all costs."
The central question for post-crisis stimulus packages must be: How do we channel money into sustainable investment? To this end, UnternehmensGrün demands:
In order for investments in climate protection to pay off in post-Corona times, CO2 pricing must not be called into question. To improve the revenue situation, UnternehmensGrün proposes:
"Climate protection and Corona cannot be set off against each other - climate protection also makes economic sense," clarifies UnternehmensGrün board member Jan-Karsten Meier. If, for example, the fossil automotive industry now smells morning air and wants to play off Corona against climate protection (demand for relaxation of CO2 targets for cars), it not only devalues its own investments in fuel-saving drives, electric mobility and fuel cells, but also reveals an incredible degree of anti-solidarity with the younger generation, which is dependent on climate protection measures.
Source: PM of UnternehmensGrün from 1.4.2020
Keywords:
DE-News, Sustainable management, Resource efficiency, Environmental policy
The City of Hamburg promotes the use of wood for the new construction of non-residential buildings with a floor space of 100 m² or more.
The use of wood in the building construction of new buildings is being 800 € per tonne of wood product promoted.
In addition Insulation materials with the quality mark RAL-UZ 132 or 140 (Blue Angel) or the natureplus seal with a subsidy of 10,- €/m² component area promoted. At least 80 percent by volume of the thermally insulating building component must consist of the sustainable insulation material.
In an office building with 1,000 m² of heated floor space and solid wood exterior walls and ceilings, about 200 tonnes of wood are used. This would be eligible for funding of 160,000 €. The maximum amount of funding per building is 250,000 €*.
Link to the website of the Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank:
www.ifbhh.de/nichtwohngebaeude
*Data are only estimates for orientation, data without guarantee.
Keywords:
Stakeholders, Building materials / Construction, Funding, Wood construction, Climate protection, NaWaRohs, Sustainable management, News Blog Hamburg, Quarters, Settlements, Environmental policy, Housing policy, Thermal insulation
0:43 min, 2020
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/arkadien-asperg
Show building projects by Joachim Eble / EMP: http://sdg21.eu/planungsbueros/emp
Keywords:
Building Biology, DE-News, Movies, Movies < 4 Min, Wood construction, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Water, Water design
