Research initiative promotes public buildings and quarters
Published
Project outlines, especially for public buildings, municipal properties and urban districts, can be submitted until 29 July as part of the new funding initiative "Solar Building & Energy Efficient City".
The funding announcement "Solar Construction/Energy Efficient City" can be downloaded from the press page of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
Further information
EnEff.Gebäude.2050 funding initiative
Information from the project management organisation Jülich with contact persons and information on funding www.ptj.de/eneff-gebaeude-2050
Research initiative EnOB - Research for energy-optimised construction www.enob.info
Research initiatives EnEff:Stadt - Research for the energy-efficient city and EnEff:Wärme - Research for energy-efficient heating and cooling networks
www.eneff-stadt.info
Important impetus for electric mobility in Germany
Bonn/Cologne, 14 June 2017
The new vehicle type is based on a Ford Transit chassis, which is equipped with a battery-electric drivetrain and a body structure in accordance with Post and DHL Paket specifications. Image: Deutsche Post DHL Group
StreetScooter GmbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post, and Ford-Werke GmbH are entering into a partnership to build battery-powered delivery vehicles. After Deutsche Post has already made its mark on the market for smaller vans with the emission-free StreetScooter, which it developed and built itself, the partnership is now moving on to a larger vehicle type: the basis is a Ford Transit chassis, which is equipped with a battery-electric drivetrain and a bodywork according to the specifications of Deutsche Post and DHL Paket.
Production will start in July 2017 and at least 2,500 units will be deployed in Deutsche Post DHL Group's inner-city delivery operations by the end of 2018. This volume will make the joint project the largest producer of battery-electric medium-duty delivery vehicles in Europe.
Both companies, Deutsche Post DHL Group and Ford, share the same goal of helping to shape the mobility of the future by reducing emissions and developing new transport solutions. This partnership is a concrete and important step towards achieving these goals.
"I see this partnership as another important boost for electromobility in Germany," says Jürgen Gerdes, Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post AG. "This step underlines Deutsche Post's innovation leadership, will relieve the burden on city centres and improve people's quality of life. We are continuing to work on a completely CO2-neutral Logistics!“
"Electromobility and innovative transport solutions for urban areas are at the centre of our efforts to align our business with the requirements of the future," says Steven Armstrong, Group Vice President and President Europe, Middle East and Africa, Ford Motor Company. "For us as the market leader in the commercial vehicle segment in Europe, this partnership is the perfect complement to our plans. With StreetScooter and the Deutsche Post DHL Group, we have a partner with enormous expertise and a global network."
In addition to the new production line, production of the existing StreetScooter models will be significantly expanded, as already announced: StreetScooter GmbH plans to produce up to 20,000 units of its successful smaller e-delivery vehicle in different variants each year in Aachen and at a future additional production site in North Rhine-Westphalia. More than 2,500 StreetScooters are already in use throughout Germany for Deutsche Post. In addition, more and more external interested parties are registering demand or have already taken delivery of StreetScooters to convert their vehicle fleets to emission-free operation.
Source: Deutsche Post DHL Group press release dated 14 June 2017
RNE Secretary General Günther Bachmann explains in an interview how important new alliances for sustainability are.
Exclusive clubs of high-ranking personalities have historical merits, just think of the Club of Rome. Today, however, we need other forms of organization. The focus is not on international celebrities, but on the practical competence of the players on the ground. This is what we signal with "open". The Open SDGclub is a concept of the "sharing society". Its concept is "share ware". That is, it is designed to be replicated elsewhere.
Read the full post from 11/18/2016: Council for Sustainable Development
Creating sufficient affordable housing - especially in European conurbations - is one of the great challenges of our future and calls for new solutions. In view of demographic change, changing family structures and growing environmental awareness, completely new forms of housing have developed in Europe: shared living for young and old, residents' cooperatives, senior living projects, eco-settlements, integrative living or neighbourhoods in the neighbourhood. Above all, the significance of communal living will change against the background of social traditions and framework conditions such as housing policy and the housing market. This book offers an insight into communal living in eleven European countries - Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Germany - and presents a large number of exemplary housing projects with their structural and social concepts as well as their different forms of sponsorship.
The book (120 pages) was published by Jovis Verlag and can be purchased at the wohnbund office and in bookshops (ISBN 978-3-86859-406-5).
Europe
Living together
Wohnbund e. V. (Ed.)
Softcover
21 x 29,7 cm
120 pages, 149 col., 18 b/w ill., plans and tables
German/English
ISBN 978-3-86859-406-5
12.2015
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