17:10 min, talk by Andrew Waugh in March 2020.
With more than 1,700 realised buildings, SolarActiveHouses are no longer a marginal phenomenon. What has been missing so far is a scientific evaluation of this heat supply concept. To this end, researchers have measured nine solar houses over several heating periods. The responsible project manager Gerhard Stryi-Hipp presented the interim results at the OTTI symposium "Thermal Solar Energy".
Read more in the BINE-Projektinfo from 13.05.2015
(BINE-Info was discontinued at the end of 2020)
Keywords:
DE-News, Renewable, Research, Building, Climate protection, New books and studies, PV, PlusEnergy house/settlement, Solar thermal, Life cycle assessment
2:04 min
Video report about the car-free settlement Florisdorf in Vienna.
Content: For 16 years there has been a car-free settlement in the 21st district. Instead of parking spaces, communal areas dominate. The residents are still enthusiastic - but for some of them, the sloppiness has set in.
To the project website:
www.autofrei.org/unsere-siedlung
There is also a text post about this from 10/12/2016: www.derstandard.at/...Floridsdorf-Ohne-Auto-im-Autofahrer-Bezirk
Keywords:
Car Free, Movies, Movies < 4 Min, News Blog Austria, Quarters, Settlements, Vienna
In its latest special report, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has emphasised the need for massive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. With its "100 Climate Protection Housing Estates in NRW" project, North Rhine-Westphalia is pursuing the goal of significantly reducing these emissions by combining energy-efficient buildings with low-greenhouse gas building technology. 35 of these energy-efficient climate protection housing estates have already been completed. A further 50 housing estates are under construction and in the planning stage.
The new brochure "100 climate protection housing estates in NRW - role models for energy-efficient housing construction" presents the spectrum of the 35 projects realised to date on 56 pages. From Aachen to Bielefeld, from Kleve to Siegen, owner-occupied homes, retirement homes, housing association projects and publicly subsidised flats have been built throughout the state.
Head of the topic area Andreas Gries from the EnergyAgency.NRW: "The 5,000 residents of these estates benefit from low energy costs and contribute to climate protection at the same time." According to the publishers, some of the estates achieve greenhouse gas savings of 80 to 90 per cent compared to standard developments.
The brochure is available here as a pdf download or can also be ordered as a printed version free of charge can be ordered:
https://broschueren.nordrheinwestfalendirekt.de/…100-klimaschutzsiedlungen
Keywords:
New books and studies, News Blog NRW
For the fifth time and in keeping with its 120th birthday, Spar- und Bauverein Solingen eG awarded the nationwide Klaus Novy Prize for innovations in cooperative building and living in July. This prize was established by SBV eG as a stimulus for cooperative ideas on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. This year, the prize was awarded to projects that "socially and innovatively" strengthen membership in a cooperative and coexistence in neighborhoods.
"From children's cooperatives to housing projects for refugees: housing cooperatives today are more colourful, dynamic, open-minded and sustainable - innovative and social." SBV Board Chairman Ulrich Bimberg was enthusiastic about the "exciting exchange of knowledge" that took place in the cooperative's own historic washhouse Weegerhof.
Michael Groschek, Chairman of the NRW SPD and former Minister of State, was impressed by the award's namesake: Professor Klaus Novy had imagined the ideal society as a cooperative. The housing market in Germany is a long way from that, he said. "Unless you are lucky enough to live in Solingen, where every tenth apartment is cooperative." During his visit, Michael Groschek paid tribute to the innovative cooperative projects - as former NRW Minister for Construction, he has a special connection to the subject.
Eight cooperatives from all over Germany presented their ideas to the expert audience after a pre-selection from 31 submitted entries. In the end, the new Zurich housing cooperative "Mehr als Wohnen eG" prevailed in the democratic selection process. Their forward-looking and sustainable project was convincing from a social, technical and ecological point of view and received 4000 euros. Second place and 2000 euros went to "Inklusiv Wohnen Köln e.V.", the house project of an association of parents with disabled children. "Bellevue di Monaco eG" from Munich, a housing and social cooperative for refugees, was pleased with third place and 1000 euros. There were no losers in the innovative performances, but a win for all. SBV Chairman Ulrich Bimberg: "Every participating cooperative has something very special." For co-organiser Arno Mersmann, what is typical of a cooperative is: "What one person can't achieve alone, one can achieve together.
Laureate 2017
Klaus Novy Prize
The prize is dedicated to Prof. Klaus Novy (Professor of Building Economics, born 1944 in Vienna; died 1991 in Seattle, USA), who championed the renewal of cooperative housing culture. To mark its centenary in 1997, Spar- und Bauverein Solingen eG launched the nationwide competition. Every five years, current innovations are honored - also as an inspiration for others. Competition theme 2017: "Innovative social cooperative". Contact: Arno Mersmann, telephone 0202/563 20 58, e-mail: amersmann@hotmail.com
Savings and building society Solingen eG
With over 13,600 members, SBV eG is the largest housing cooperative in the Rhineland and one of the largest in Germany; almost one in eight people in Solingen live in an SBV eG house. The claim for 120 years: to offer modern and safe living space at fair conditions to all classes of the population. Contact: SBV Board of Directors, Ulrich Bimberg, Tel. (0212) 20 66-201, e-mail: bimberg@sbv-solingen.de
Keywords:
Stakeholders, Cohousing, News Blog Bavaria, News Blog NRW, Contests & Prizes, Housing policy, Housing projects
