Participation possible until 15 August
In the Eifel forest and timber region, timber construction has a distinctive tradition. After 2008, 2012 and 2016, the Eifel Timber Construction Prize will be awarded for the fourth time.
https://informationsdienst-holz.de/details/holzbaupreis-eifel-2020-ausgelobt
HolzProKlima initiative honours award winners
Over the last 150 years, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are responsible for climate change, has risen sharply. Germany has set itself the goal of becoming largely greenhouse gas neutral by 2050. The great importance of municipalities in achieving these climate protection goals and the important role played by the increased and responsible use of wood became clear at the award ceremony for the 2016/2017 HolzProKlima municipal competition in Baden-Württemberg.
The award ceremony honoured cities, municipalities and districts that have made a conscious political decision to contribute to climate protection in their region by increasing the use of wood as a renewable resource. The competition office received a total of 40 applications. Cash and non-cash prizes totalling 20,000 euros were provided by companies in the wood-processing industry.
Climate champion was the municipality of Frickingen. Baden-Württemberg's Forestry Minister Peter Hauk (CDU) honoured the winners of the municipal competition in person and thanked the organisers of the state-sponsored competition: "There is a great need for the climate-positive material wood, and the possible uses are becoming increasingly diverse thanks to innovations."
Link:
www.holzproklima.de
Keywords:
Awards, DE-News, Wood construction, Climate protection, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Contests & Prizes
TU Dortmund University conducted an excursion to Paris from 27 to 31 March 2017 as part of the research project "Co-Housing Initiatives in Europe". There, the researchers met French colleagues Anne Labit (Orléans University), Sabrina Bresson (ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine) and Claire Carriou (Paris Nanterre University)."
"While in Germany the number of community housing projects has been steadily increasing for the last 30 years and a number of communal and other support structures have developed in parallel, a similar development has only been observed in France since the early 2000s."
Contact: Dr. Anja Szypulski, Department of Urban and Regional Sociology
Weitere Infos: http://www.raumplanung.tu-dortmund.de/rp/index.php?id=968&no_cache=1&tx_bbrpnews_pi3%5BshowUid%5D=600
Keywords:
Cohousing, Excursion, News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog France, Quarters, Settlements
Has Federal Building Minister Barbara Hendricks (SPD) raised expectations with the Alliance for Affordable Housing and Building that ultimately cannot be fulfilled? The Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Bundestag is investigating her doubts about the meaningfulness and effectiveness of the alliance in a question. And they want to know: How and when will the alliance be continued?
Read the full article from 2 January 2017: www.immobilien-zeitung.de/...gruene-zweifeln-am-sinn-des-buendnisses-fuer-bezahlbares-wohnen
Keywords:
DE-News, Affordable housing, Housing policy
6/2014 Swedish housing association awards major timber construction contractSwedish housing association Rikshem Ab has signed a major contract with the northern Swedish timber construction company Lindbäcks Bygg, Piteå, to build 2,000 rental flats across the country over the next five years. The volume of the order is estimated at SEK 2 billion (equivalent to around EUR 220 million). The contract includes an option for a further 500 units. The rental flats are to be built in the country's urban centres, primarily in the capital region and the Öresund region in the south, where there is a housing shortage. Lindbäcks Bygg is a family business that was founded in 1924 as a village sawmill and generated sales of SEK 600 million in 2013 with around 200 employees. Lindbäcks started building industrially prefabricated wooden apartment blocks 20 years ago.
(Source: Holzbau Deutschland-Institut e. V.)
3/2014 large sustainable construction areas in Germany:
2/2014 Fuel cells: The world's largest fuel cell park has gone into operation in South Korea. The plant was built by the American company Fuelcell Energy in Hwaseong City. With an output of 59 megawatts, the plant converts natural gas into electricity and heat and is said to be particularly efficient. (Bloomberg)
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Europe's largest ecological neighbourhood is being built in France
A sustainable neighbourhood is to be built on more than 200 hectares for 30,000 private individuals in Montreuil, France. The neighbourhood is part of a new development area covering a total of 892 hectares and is being funded with 3.5 million euros from the NQU initiative (Nouveaux Quartiers Urbains = New Urban Districts).
www.montreuil.fr/grands-projets/les-hauts-de-montreuil
1/2014 New book publication by Rob Hopkins: "Simple. Now. Do!" Hopkins is the founder of the Transition Towns movement
www.oekom.de/buecher/vorschau/buch/einfach-jetzt-machen.html
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DE-News
