With retroactive effect from 1 January 2020, the subsidy for timber construction in Hamburg has now been officially increased to 0.80 euros per kilogram of timber product as part of the various subsidised housing construction programmes. As a funding requirement, the wood used must come from sustainable sources, be permanently installed in the building and be part of the construction. Wood products in the construction within the meaning of the subsidy are all solid wood products (sawn timber, planed timber, etc.), wood-based materials (chipboard, fibreboard, etc.) and products of structural timber construction (cross laminated timber, glulam, etc.). The pure wood content in these products must correspond to at least 80 % of the product mass.
The use of wood in the construction of new buildings, additions and extensions is subsidised with € 0.80 per kilogram of wood product.
The use of insulation materials with the "Blue Angel" quality mark RAL-UZ 132 or composite thermal insulation systems RAL-UZ 140 or the natureplus seal is subsidised with an additional grant of € 11.00 per m² of building component area.
A new "Export Initiative for Environmental Technologies" of the Federal Ministry for the Environment is to support the foreign business of the German environmental industry and thus promote the development of environmental infrastructure. Interested companies and organisations can apply until the end of April. In total, the BMUB five million euros available this year.
Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks: "Germany is the world export champion in environmental protection. We want to maintain this position. In the meantime, other countries have also recognised that environmental protection goods are a key market of the future. With the export initiative, we want to support our companies in developing their Know-How continue to successfully market internationally while driving sustainable development."
Applications are open to institutions from Germany that are working on the development of environmental infrastructure abroad. Funding is available, for example, for projects in the field of circular economy, sustainable water management, sustainable, efficient construction, mobility or sustainable and nature-friendly regional infrastructure development. The initiative will also specifically provide funding for urbanisation partnerships and international "Smart City-projects" will be used. The initiative is also intended to help accelerate the application of global environmental standards abroad.
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.
Background Information:
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
Like the heat register, the solar register is part of the Energy Atlas.NRW, which provides comprehensive information on renewable energies in North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to the current stock, potential for the further expansion of renewable energies is also presented.
In the solar register, the potential, yields and economic viability of solar energy (photovoltaics and solar thermal energy) can be calculated individually for each of the approximately eleven million building roofs analysed in NRW. The data basis for the calculation is updated regularly. Homeowners, owners of commercial properties, housing associations, local authorities and energy suppliers can thus obtain information independently, free of charge, simply and quickly about the possibilities for using solar energy on their roofs. The area-wide heat register provides information on renewable and energy-efficient heat sources as well as existing heat sinks in NRW. It provides an overview of possible alternatives for supplying heat to properties and neighbourhoods, or for integrating renewable and efficient sources into existing heating networks.
"With the EnergyAtlas.NRW, LANUV offers local authorities optimum guidance in the implementation of the energy transition on the ground. The data bases from the EnergyAtlas.NRW help to initiate municipal climate protection projects in the electricity and heating sectors, but also to document the further expansion of renewable energies at municipal level", explained Antje Kruse from the North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection.
Wuppertal is making waves when it comes to sustainable and modern transport systems. It is not only the 100-year-old suspension railway that has long symbolised the city as an innovative mode of transport. The new northern railway line for cyclists and pedestrians above the rooftops of the city has brought great recognition nationwide. A modern urban cable car is planned as a new mode of transport and is hotly debated.
And now the renowned Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy has presented the study "Car-free city centre Wuppertal Elberfeld", which provides further impetus for the mobility turnaround in Wuppertal and builds on a changed mobility culture.
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