12th Vorarlberg Timber Construction Prize awarded

Published 8 August 2017

The jury selected nine prize winners this year, and in addition seven commendations were awarded. 134 projects were submitted, all of which, according to the jury, "demonstrate a level of craftsmanship that can hardly be surpassed". They were awarded on 30 June in CUBUS Wolfurt.

The "Vorarlberger Holzbaupreis 2017" was awarded to:

Category "Apartment buildingRow house LG, Lustenau
Rehabilitation" categoryOeconomy Building Josef Weiss, Dornbirn, Julia Kick DI ZT Architect, Dornbirn
Category "Public BuildingMessehallen 09-12, Dornbirn, Marte.Marte Architekten ZT GmbH, Feldkirch
Category "Single-family houseHouse Birne, Nüziders, DI Martin Mackowitz, Feldkirch and Helmut Taudes, Nüziders
Category "Single-family houseResidential house W, Bezau, cukrowicz nachbaur architekten ZT GmbH, Bregenz and Jürgen Haller, Mellau
Category "Other/holiday home": Haus am Stürcherwald, Laterns, architect Bernardo Bader ZT GmbH, Dornbirn
Out of the country" categoryHouse A, Eschlikon, Srich & Oswald Gmbh, Zurich
Out of the country" categoryResidential home for refugees, Hanover, MOSAIK Architekten BDA PartGmbH, Hanover
Ecology and Sustainability" CategoryResidential building F, Dornbirn, cukrowicz nachbaur architekten ZT GmbH, Bregenz and Jürgen Haller, Mellau

When the Vorarlberg Timber Construction Prize was awarded for the first time in 1997, it was a pioneer of its kind. Today it is considered the benchmark of the industry, is internationally known and helps to market the Vorarlberg region to tourists. Around 30,000 architectural tourists come every year because of the outstanding timber architecture, according to the press release of the organisers. vorarlberger holzbau_kunst - a regional network of planners, craftsmen and companies that is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

Photos and further information:
www.holzbaukunst.at/events-aktivitaeten/holzbaupreis-2017

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Published 13 June 2022

German Building Owner Award 2022: The nominees have been determined

Berlin - The nominees for the German Building Award 2022 have been determined. A total of 29 housing projects were selected in a two-stage process by an interdisciplinary jury chaired by Susanne Wartzeck, President of the Association of German Architects BDA. This year, 187 housing projects completed between 2018 and 2021 took part in the competition across Germany.

Since 1986, the German Building Award has been honouring outstanding housing projects that are both of high quality and have been implemented at affordable costs. With this broad claim, the prize is unique in Germany.

"The contributions encourage us to reconcile quality and costs. This radiates to the cities and neighbourhoods where the projects were built. Their exemplary effect multiplies good building. But it is also clear that we have to be prepared for higher costs in building and take this into account in the demands on living space. Good solutions on less space - that is the challenge that building enthusiasts, architects and cities have to meet", emphasises Helmut Dedy, Chief Executive of the German Association of Cities.

The winners of the German Building Award will be announced and honoured on 15 September 2022 at the award ceremony during the National Urban Development Policy Congress in Berlin.

The German Building Award is known as the most important prize in the field of housing construction in Germany. It was launched by the KOOPERATION working group consisting of the central association of the housing industry GdW, the Association of German Architects BDA and the German Association of Cities and is supported by the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction, DZ Hyp AG and the Association of German Landscape Architects bdla.

All information on the German Building Award can be found at

www.deutscherbauherrenpreis.de

Overview of the nominees for the DBHP 2022

NEW CONSTRUCTION:

KARO ARNSTADT, Arnstadt

Client: Wachsenburg Baugruppe

Building group Balingen - eventful living, Balingen

Client: erlebnisreich wohnen GmbH & Co. KG

New housing on Briesestraße, Berlin

Client: STADT UND LAND Wohnbauten-Gesellschaft mbH

Johannisgärten, Berlin

Client: HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH

Grünes Haus am Hohentorsplatz - Subsidised housing in a city centre location, Bremen

Client: GEWOBA Aktiengesellschaft Wohnen und Bauen

Residential house Rübezahlweg, Bruckmühl

Client: Market Bruckmühl

Marktplatz 7 - replacement new building, Buchbach

Client: Markt Buchbach (represented by the First Mayor, Thomas Einwang)

"Mary & Abe", Darmstadt

Client: GSW Gemeinnütziges Siedlungswerk GmbH

Social housing Lebens-S-Raum "Eiswiese", Düren

Client: City of Düren

Carl-Sieder-Hof - Cooperative living around a green inner courtyard, Freiburg

Client: Bauverein Breisgau eG

Neighbourhood development UNI-CARRÉ, Freiburg

Client: Bauverein Breisgau eG

Mirror factory, Fürth

Client: Spiegelfabrik Planungs-GbR

Bauverein der Elbgemeinden eG, Hamburg

Building owner: Bauverein der Elbgemeinden eG

Pergola Quarter, Hamburg

Client: SAGA Siedlungs- und Aktiengesellschaft Hamburg

Residential development Robertstraße, Cologne

Client: GAG Immobilien AG Cologne

Redesign of Heinrich-Schweitzer-Straße, Ludwigsburg

Client: Wohnungsbau Ludwigsburg GmbH

Prinz Eugen Park, Munich

Client: GWG Städtische Wohnungsgesellschaft München mbH

Arnheimweg residential quarter, Münster-Gievenbeck

Client: Wohn + Stadtbau Wohnungsunternehmen der Stadt Münster GmbH

New building Neusalzer Platz, Nuremberg

Client: wbg Nürnberg GmbH real estate company

EUROPAN 12 - Residential complex with 132 units in urban Südstadt, Nuremberg

Client: wbg Nürnberg GmbH real estate company

Residential quarter for families in Litjen Wai, Sylt

Client: Municipal Property Management of the Municipality of Sylt

MODERNISATIONS:

Casa Rossa, Chemnitz

Client: Bodensteiner Fest Stroux GbR

Two-storey roof extension of a listed residential complex, Hamburg Client: Stadtboden Grundstücks GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG

Quartier Isenhöhe, Hattingen

Client: hwg eG

Schützenhofstraße high-rise residential building, Jena

Client: jenawohnen GmbH

Model modernisation of atrium houses in the student city of Freimann, Munich

Client: Munich Student Union AdöR

The Role: More Housing, More Diversity, More Life, Potsdam

Client: ProPotsdam GmbH

MAGGIE, Regensburg

Building owner: Baugenossenschaft Margaretenau eG

CONVERSIONS:

SheddachHalle, Kempten

Client: Sozialbau Kempten Wohnungs- und Städtebau GmbH

Keywords:
DE-News, Contests & Prizes, Housing

Published 2 December 2018

Forests in NRW particularly badly damaged in 2018

Environment Minister Ursula Heinen-Esser presents this year's NRW Forest Condition Report: "Our forests are in a worrying condition. This is because the combined effect of storms in the spring, followed by extreme summer drought and then heavy bark beetle infestation in the coniferous forests means that the damage this year is considerable."

Thus, 39 percent of the trees surveyed show clear crown thinning and another 39 percent show weak crown thinning, i.e. leaf loss. This leaves only 22 percent without crown defoliation. Since the field surveys on crown condition had to be completed in August for methodological reasons and the evaluations on the full extent of bark beetle damage are still ongoing, the actual forest damage is likely to be even greater.

2018: First storm, then drought, finally bark beetle

North Rhine-Westphalia was particularly hard hit by Hurricane Friederike in January. 2.5 million solid cubic metres of "storm wood" were produced. The months of April to August were the warmest and sunniest and at the same time the months with the least precipitation since the German Meteorological Service began keeping records in 1881. The bark beetle species "spruce bark beetle" and "copper bark beetle" proliferated in the spruce forests due to the wood that had accumulated as a result of the storm and the summer drought, which severely weakened the trees' defences. Spruce forests cover about one third of the forest area in North Rhine-Westphalia. The current state of the surveys suggests that this is the largest bark beetle calamity in several decades.

Task Force "Bark Beetle

In order to cope with the current difficult situation for the North Rhine-Westphalian forestry sector, Minister Heinen-Esser recently set up a "bark beetle" task force. This task force will primarily work to ensure that the damaged wood is removed from the forest as quickly as possible and that a further mass reproduction of bark beetles next year can be contained as far as possible.

Requirements due to climate change

Minister Heinen-Esser: "In addition to the acute measures, however, it is also important for the state government to develop forests that are more stable and resistant to climate change in the longer term. To this end, the new silviculture concept for North Rhine-Westphalia and other supporting instruments for forest owners will be presented shortly. Important information for forest management will soon be offered in a modern and user-friendly way via the new internet portal 'Waldinfo.NRW'."

Background to the State of the Forest Report:

The vitality of forest trees is recorded annually according to a uniform nationwide method. For this purpose, the condition of the tree crowns of about 10,000 trees is assessed by forestry experts for North Rhine-Westphalia and other factors are also taken into account. The forest condition has deteriorated since the beginning of the survey in 1984. Since about 2000, the damage measure has remained at a roughly constant high level with annual fluctuations. The annual forest condition report also includes supplementary technical information that is not represented by the method in the narrower sense (z. B. this year statements on amounts of damaged wood).

The new instruments for forest management in climate change are part of the climate adaptation strategy for forests and forest management in North Rhine-Westphalia. Important implementation projects are the new silviculture concept NRW, the state-wide forest location map and the new forest information system NRW (here especially the new internet portal Waldinfo.NRW). Also relevant here are the forest-relevant specialist information systems on climate change.

State of the Forest Report 2018

Long version
Abstract

Source: Press release Wald und Holz NRW from 21.11.18

Keywords:
DE-News, Wood construction, Sustainable management, News Blog NRW, Ecology, Economics