850 residential units, of which 40% as low-cost social housing
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
"nWert", GLS Gemeinschaftsbank eG's sustainability rating tool for real estate, has been recognised by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) as a sustainability rating. At the same time, GLS Bank recognises the DGNB certificate as proof when granting financing. This was announced by Dr. Christine Lemaitre of the DGNB and Dr. Matthias Morgenstern, GLS ImmoWert, on the occasion of Expo Real 2021 in Munich.
"The recognition of nValue by the DGNB is a nice confirmation of our way of thinking about sustainability in a really comprehensive way and developing a robust but also valid assessment system for it," says Dr Matthias Morgenstern from GLS ImmoWert GmbH. The net value of a building reflects sustainability at a high level of aggregation and contributes to the decision on financing. It also provides the bank's customers with an objective assessment of the building at a glance. They receive a report on the nValue with a presentation of the strengths and potentials of the building and thus have a roadmap to achieve even better sustainability. In total, the Bank's colleagues have already audited over 800 projects.
"As the largest social-ecological bank in Germany, we aim to value real estate not only in monetary terms. We also want to know what social and ecological impact the properties we lend to have," says Jan Köpper, Head of Impact Transparency at GLS Bank. That is why GLS Bank has developed the tool "nWert". With this tool, a transparent, measurable and comparable sustainability rating can be calculated specifically for real estate and the lending process.
"With the recognition of its sustainability rating by the DGNB, GLS Bank is building an important bridge towards greater uniformity in the assessment of sustainable building projects as a basis for their financing," says Dr Christine Lemaitre, Executive Director of the DGNB. "With almost 8000 award-winning building and neighbourhood projects, DGNB certification has established itself as the central sustainability standard in the construction sector in Germany and beyond in recent years. The recognition of GLS Bank's sustainability rating is a valuable building block here that ultimately benefits customers."
The recognition is reciprocal. If a customer approaches GLS Bank with a DGNB certificate and a request for financing, this certificate is equally proof for GLS Bank of the sustainable properties of the building.
For about four years now, GLS Bank has been determining the nValue for real estate in addition to the market value and the mortgage lending value. The degree to which the building complies with a sustainable model is determined by analysing documents, interviewing people with knowledge of the property and visiting the site. Around 50 indicators are collected and converted into a score from 0 to 100 %.
You can find more information on the GLS Bank's nWert audit here:
gls.co.uk/corporate-institutions/industries/housing/sustainable-property/
Source: PM from DGNB and GLS dated 28.10.2021
Keywords:
DE-News, DGNB, Sustainable management
In this interview, Hermann Kaufmann focuses on wood as a material and talks about the role the material and architecture play in his life.
Click here for the interview:
www.detail.de/artikel/holz-ist-ein-versprechen...
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Stakeholders, Building materials / Construction, DE-News, Wood construction, NaWaRohs, Resource efficiency, Ecology
A great opportunity for more flats in Germany lies on the roofs: More than 1.5 million additional flats could be created by adding storeys to roofs. And in places where living space is already scarce and housing is expensive: in large cities, conurbations and university towns.
This is the conclusion of a study presented today in Berlin by the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Pestel Institute in Hanover. To ensure that this potential can be utilised quickly, the German government should create incentives and allow special depreciation for additional storeys, according to the scientists. The study assumes an average size of around 85 square metres of living space for flats that can be built as "on-top floors" on the roofs of existing residential buildings.
The study focuses on the housing reserves of apartment blocks built between 1950 and 1990. According to the study, an additional 1.12 million flats could be built in regions with a tight housing market simply by adding storeys to the roofs of around 580,000 of these post-war buildings. In addition, a further 420,000 flats could be built on buildings constructed before 1950. "The potential is enormous. And this is despite the fact that the study takes into account both the protection of historical monuments and the preservation of the cityscape when selecting the buildings that are eligible for a roof extension," says Prof Dr Karsten Tichelmann from TU Darmstadt.
The advantage of the extension is that no additional building land is needed. This also means that no new green spaces would be sealed. There would also be no need to build new infrastructure - no new roads, sewers or supply lines would be required. This means that the land and development costs are already two important points where savings can be made. With an extension, the energy requirement on the floor below could be reduced by up to half.
The press release, short and long versions of the study as well as the political demands of the associations can be found in the download area on the following website: www.impulse-fuer-den-wohnungsbau.de/...wohnraum-potential.html
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Increase, Stock, DE-News, Wood construction, New books and studies, Resource efficiency
