DGNB event "Resource Efficiency and Sustainability in Buildings, Neighbourhoods and Urban Development
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on 15 March 2016 in Stuttgart
In cooperation with the DGNB, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) is organising a networking event on Interreg B - an EU programme to promote cooperation in transnational cooperation areas. The event will focus on topics such as Innovation, reducing CO2 emissions, the environment, transport, climate change and governance are the focus of the respective cooperation programmes. Innovative ideas for sustainability and resource efficiency in buildings, urban neighbourhoods and at a city-wide level are also promoted.
The aim of the event is to present exemplary results of completed Interreg projects in the thematic field, to demonstrate the added value of European cooperation, to provide information on specific funding opportunities and funding channels and to discuss questions for future project activities in an exchange of experiences. The event is aimed at newcomers and Interreg professionals alike.
Further information: www.dgnb.de/...Ressourceneffizienz.pdf
The 52° Nord quarter in Berlin's southeast convinced this year's jury of experts and, with its sustainable and architecturally coherent overall concept, wins the German Housing 2020 Award for the best quarter development.
The Award Deutscher Wohnungsbau is the first award for developers and clients in the area of multi-storey residential construction. The architecture prize is awarded by a jury of experts. This year's jury members include Reiner Nagel, Chairman of the Executive Board Federal Foundation for Building Culture, Sabine Schneider, Editorial Manager of the architecture magazine Baumeister and last year's winner Lars Krückeberg, GRAFT Architekten.
The award-winning 52° North quarter covers around 100,000 m² and is located in the Grünau district of Treptow-Köpenick between the banks of the Dahme River and the Teltow Canal on a former industrial wasteland. A striking feature of this district development is the 6,000 m² water basin, the ecological and visual heart of the district: as part of the overall sustainable concept, rainwater from the surrounding buildings is collected here and biologically purified by planting along the sides. Evaporation returns the rainwater to the natural water cycle and improves the microclimate in the quarter - an example of contemporary rainwater management based on the model of the sponge city.
A neighbourhood square with a café, publicly accessible riverside promenades, play and recreation areas, an energy centre and an eco-nursery round off the concept. Daniel Riedl, member of the Management Board of Vonovia SE and responsible for BUWOG's development in Germany: "In Quartier 52° Nord, we have implemented a quality-first approach, i.e. with the first construction phase we have designed a sustainable residential environment that creates flair and quality of life at the same time - for the new residents and also for the people in the surrounding area. This award confirms to us that architectural and sustainable qualities must be thought of together and are essential success factors in neighbourhood development."
With a large number of different architectural firms designing the individual buildings on the various construction sites, Quartier 52° Nord is today one of the largest inhabited architectural parks of the post-reunification era. The area is being developed in sections, with overall completion expected by 2024. Three construction phases are currently under construction in Quartier 52° Nord: BUWOG THE VIEW, BUWOG REGATTAHOF and the BUWOG LOTSENHÄUSER - realised in timber hybrid construction (KfW-40).
About BUWOG BUWOG can look back on 69 years of experience in the residential real estate sector. In Germany, BUWOG Bauträger GmbH currently concentrates on property development with a focus on Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig and currently has a development pipeline of around 14,500 residential units. BUWOG is a subsidiary of Vonovia SE, Europe's leading housing company headquartered in Bochum (Germany).
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