City of Burg receives award: Tenants' electricity project reduces electricity costs
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On 26 April 2017, the Agency for Renewable Energies in Berlin honoured the Saxon-Anhalt town of Burg for its commitment as Energy Municipality of the Month. A tenant power project in the town ensures that 230 tenants can obtain solar power to cover part of their electricity requirements directly from the roof of their apartments. "Tenant power projects are ideal for driving the energy transition locally and involving many citizens at the same time - either by participating financially in the systems or by purchasing green electricity," explains Nils Boenigk, Deputy Managing Director of the Renewable Energy Agency.
As part of the city's first tenant electricity project, the local public utility operates photovoltaic systems with a total output of 283 kilowatts peak on the roofs of ten apartment buildings belonging to a housing cooperative.
The HYPV research project has developed a guideline that discusses low-CO2 electricity and heating networks. It is intended to make planning easier for energy suppliers.
In 2015, a historic double success was achieved for sustainability and climate policy. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate protection define an ambitious global target system. The group of the twenty most important industrialised and emerging countries (G20) should now resolutely press ahead with the implementation of both agreements and perceive the Great Transformation towards sustainability as a unique modernisation project that offers considerable economic development opportunities. For example, the complete decarbonisation of the global economy needed to avoid the greatest climate risks can only be implemented with a profound transformation of energy systems and other emissions-intensive infrastructures. The transformation inspires innovation and directs investments towards sustainability and climate protection, including in the sustainable infrastructures to be built and expanded. At the same time, the transformation can be used to fight inequality, i.e. to advance inclusion within societies as well as globally, and thus become a justice project.
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with a focus on solar energy, neighbourhood concepts and funding
The BUND yearbook Ökologisch Bauen & Renovieren (Ecological Building and Renovation) published by the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) helps by making owners fit for discussions with the house bank, architect, energy consultant and craftsmen. The guidebook, which will be available from November, shows what can be done and how: Based on numerous house portraits, the annual compendium helps the reader to find out which measures, building materials and technologies are most suitable for their own project.
Written in an understandable way and clearly presented, with many examples and suggestions, the 244-page "BUND Yearbook 2019 - Ecological Building and Renovation" offers an all-round service for builders and renovators. The booklet offers six topics: basics/planning, model houses, green around the house, building envelope, building services and interior design. Furthermore, state funding opportunities are presented. With in the focus this time quarter concepts for less surface consumption and more togetherness stand. In addition, long-term experience with solar thermal energy and innovations in photovoltaics and solar power storage.
sdg21 comment: There is no comparable publication for the low costs. For this one must accept that a not insignificant part is occupied by advertisements, which are however thematically relevant. Strongly contradictory is however the request of the BUND to reduce the surface consumption, but then in the booklet almost throughout only examples of single-family houses to show. The few sustainable quarters, multi-storey residential buildings or housing estates are almost lost. The title "Neighborhood Concepts" promises more than the publication actually delivers.
The 244 A4-page handbook can be purchased at a price of 8.90 Euros at major kiosks, station bookstores and BUND offices.
Or (plus 2.00 Euro shipping costs) can be ordered from the publisher: Target marketing, Gerberstr. 5f, 70178 Stuttgart, Tel. 0711/96695-0, bestellungen@ziel-marketing.de.
The complete yearbook or individual articles are also available as an e-paper via the publisher's website www.ziel-marketing.de.
The Holzbaunetzwerk München organized a guided tour through the ecological model settlement in Prinz Eugen Park in Munich on 24.05.2019. In 2009, on the initiative of the Green Party, the City Council of the City of Munich decided to build an ecological model settlement with 600 apartments in timber construction in the new district on the site of the former Prinz Eugen barracks in Bogenhausen. Based on the urban design by GSP Architects with Rainer Schmidt Landscape Architects, eight developers, the municipal housing associations GEWOFAG and GWG München, building communities and building cooperatives have developed timber construction projects ranging from atrium houses to seven-storey residential buildings. Today, all projects are under construction and some will be completed this year.
The Holzbaunetzwerk München could welcome about 400 guests. The architects of the model settlement presented their projects to interested visitors, builders, urban planners, timber construction companies, architects, investors and citizens in two parallel guided tours on 24.05.2019 in the course of a tour through the quarter. The various timber construction methods, from pure timber construction to hybrid construction methods with reinforced concrete staircases to reinforced concrete skeleton construction with timber facades, were vividly explained using the projects.
Presented were the projects of the building cooperative WOGENO with the Quartierszentrale by Mr. Florian Lünstedt from the office Atelier 5 Architekten Bern, the GEWOFAG by Jakub Pakula and Eduard Fischer, Pakula & Fischer Architekten Stuttgart, the GWG München by Stefan Rapp, Rapp Architekten Ulm, the building community Team3 by Architekturwerkstatt Vallentin München Dorfen, the building community München GbR by Sibylle Hüther, H2R and PlanZ Architekten from Munich, the Baugemeinschaft Gemeinsam Größer II by Markus Borst, agmm Architekten+Stadtplaner Munich with Hable Architekten, the Baugenossenschaft Bürgerbauverein München eG by Markus Lager, Kaden + Lager Architekten Berlin and the Baugemeinschaft Der kleine Prinz by Ulf Rössler, dressler mayerhofer rössler architekten und stadtplaner GmbH Munich.
Afterwards, at 6 p.m., a panel discussion with the city councillors Ms. Heide Rieke (SPD), Mr. Herbert Danner (Die Grünen), Ms. Ulrike Klar, (City Director, Department of Urban Planning of the City of Munich) and Ms. Gerda Peter (Managing Director of GWG Munich) on the future of timber construction in Munich rounded off the event. It was discussed how the path taken can become a model for further new building areas, what lessons can be learned from the Ecological Model Settlement and how a promotion of timber construction can be designed for the future planning areas of the Bayerkaserne, the urban extensions in the east and north and the redevelopment area of Neuperlach. To this end, the Holzbaunetzwerk München wants to launch the Holzbaustadt München 2030 initiative with at least 2030 residential units in timber construction. How it works could be seen in the Prinz Eugenpark on 24.05.2019.
The Holzbaunetzwerk München was founded in 2018 by Andreas Lerge (Wood Real Estate GmbH) Thomas Kapfer Architekt and Ulf Rössler Architekt (dressler mayerhofer rössler architekten und stadtplaner GmbH). The Holzbaunetzwerk wants to work to connect the stakeholders from politics, administration, planning and business, to engage in the further promotion of timber construction in Munich and to initiate the vision of the timber construction city Munich 2030.
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