The Rosenstein urban planning competition recently ended with the decision on the winning design. First place went to the Stuttgart-based asp Architekten/Koeber Landschaftsarchitektur consortium. Detlef Kron, head of the Office for Urban Planning and Housing, opened the exhibition on the Rosenstein competition on Friday, September 27, at 5 p.m. in the church of St. [...]
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From the meeting of the Berlin Senate on 24 September 2019: At its meeting today, the Senate adopted the report to the House of Representatives on "Sustainability in construction: Berlin builds with wood", following a presentation by the Senator for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, Regine Günther. The Senate is consistently pursuing the goal of making Berlin [...]
Nationwide, construction with wood for buildings up to the high-rise limit is to be made easier and the Model Building Code (MBO) adapted accordingly. This was adopted by the Construction Ministers' Conference (BMK) at the end of the two-day conference in Norderstedt. In addition to climate-friendly construction with a focus on wood, the topic of "affordable housing" was also on the agenda.
Anne Katrin Bohle has been State Secretary for Construction at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Housing since March 2019. The "Leipzig Charter" is to be further developed into the "Leipzig Charter 2.0" by the time of the German EU Council Presidency in 2020. The "Leipzig Charter", which is little known even among experts, invokes the values of "citizens' co-determination and self-determination, calls for the [...]
BUND and the ifeu - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research have produced various studies on building issues over the last 10 years, including "13 measures against energy waste in the boiler room". This study now deals with the core issue of cost allocation for energy modernisation in rented buildings. Already in the year [...]
Closing the implementation and ambition gap Ahead of the crucial meeting on 20.9.2019, the SRU addresses the members of the Climate Cabinet with an Open Letter. The SRU stresses that the measures to be adopted must be suitable for achieving the 2030 climate target. Especially in the transport and building sector there is an enormous need for action. The Council [...]
In the 2019 state competition, the focus is on existing buildings and inward growth: How are existing spaces optimally used in times of scarce building land? How can innovative living spaces be created by converting existing uses? The 2019 state competition is looking for exemplary examples - in the city and in the countryside - that take advantage of all the possibilities [...]
The Kiel City Council will probably vote on the establishment of a municipal housing company on 19 September 2019. Initially, 1,000 apartments are to be built; in the long term, 4,000 new apartments are to be created.
Like the heat register, the solar register is part of the Energy Atlas.NRW, which provides comprehensive information on renewable energies in North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to the current stock, potential for the further expansion of renewable energies is also presented.
3:16 min may 2019 Aerial footage from a drone shows the status of implementation in May 2019. The Platensiedlung in Ginnheim (Frankfurt am Main) will be raised with 2 floors without additional land sealing and the existing buildings will be renovated for energy efficiency.
Since September 2018, balcony PV modules may generally be connected in every apartment. Berlin has now greatly simplified the registration process. Berliners can thus become their own energy supplier with little effort and save cash.
With funding from the federal funding programme "Unternehmen Revier", the Faktor X agency of the development company has developed an internet-based tool for easily calculating the resource efficiency of your own construction project. The tool has now undergone final testing and will be available online from September.
Düsseldorf. In North Rhine-Westphalia, close cooperation between the state government and the EnergyAgency.NRW has resulted in the "100 Climate Protection Housing Estates in NRW" project, an approach which focuses on reducing the energy consumption and CO2 emissions of residential buildings. To date, 93 settlement concepts with a total of around 7,000 apartments and houses for 17,000 [...]
In 20 real laboratories across Germany, companies will be testing new hydrogen technologies on an industrial scale and in a real environment. Today, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Peter Altmaier announced the winners of the "Energy Transition Real Labs Ideas Competition". With the Energy Transition Real Labs, sustainable energy technologies are tested under real conditions and on an industrial scale. The central theme [...]
03.07.2019 In its meeting on 3 July 2019, the Magistrate decided to introduce the principles for "socially appropriate land use in Darmstadt" (SoBoDA) and to establish a responsible project group. The set of rules is one element of the 21 points of the bundle of measures of the Housing Policy Concept of the City of Science Darmstadt, which is a new overarching political steering instrument [...]
By a large majority, the city council has instructed the administration to increase the use of wooden building materials in new municipal buildings such as schools and day-care centres. Complete wooden buildings are to be erected wherever possible.
The ecological model settlement in Prinz Eugen Park in Munich, currently the largest contiguous timber construction settlement in Europe, was presented. 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.
Annual press conference of the central association of the housing industry in Berlin 17 June 2019 Annual balance sheet of the housing industry shows great commitment of companies to more affordable housing Housing industry sends alarm signal - conditions for affordable housing still too poor
German cities believe that greater cohesion in society is necessary and want to make their contribution to this. The President of the German Association of Cities, Mayor Markus Lewe from Münster, said at the start of the annual general meeting of the leading municipal association in Dortmund: "Sticking together in our cities - that is reality, demand and hope at the same time. [...]
"Düsseldorfer Erklärung zum Städtebaurecht" (Düsseldorf Declaration on Urban Planning Law) 50 city planning councillors, department heads and heads of planning offices from over 40 German cities, including Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Cologne, Bochum, Freiburg, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main, have signed the "Düsseldorfer Erklärung zum Städtebaurecht" (Düsseldorf Declaration on Urban Planning Law). They are calling for a fundamental amendment of the Building Use Ordinance (BauNVO) and the administrative regulation TA-Lärm, so that in future beautiful and [...]
Available until 08.04.2024. ARD-alpha A district without cars, in a big German city? In Cologne-Nippes about 1300 people live in a car-free quarter. The residents of the French Quarter in Tübingen have been gathering experience in a neighbourhood without cars for about 20 years. Does the concept work?
With up to 100 million euros per year, the BMWi is funding real laboratories for the energy transition. The focus of the competition is primarily on energy-optimised districts as real laboratories. Project ideas can be submitted as of now. Concepts can be submitted until 05 April 2019. You can find further information at energieforschung.de
Augsburg, 22.02.19: Together with partner company EXYTRON, Stadtwerke Augsburg (swa) has installed and commissioned the world's first decentralised power-to-gas plant in an existing residential complex. This enables a challenge of the energy transition to be mastered: surplus, regeneratively generated electricity is converted into synthetic natural gas and can thus be stored on site. Combustion then takes place in a commercially available combined heat and power plant and condensing boilers. In this way, over 180 residents in 70 apartments in the residential complex of the Augsburg housing group, which has existed since 1974, are supplied with climate-friendly electricity and heat.
Purple, green, blue and yellow - inside the innovative battery storage systems that have now been installed in the municipal utility's climate district, things will be colourful in future. The electrolyte, which can store up to ten kilowatt hours of self-produced solar power, changes color depending on the state of charge.
Nature can also be experienced in the direct living environment in the city, if planned accordingly. A completely new approach is to consider the needs of animals not only in green and open spaces, but also in the planning of buildings. Because the demands of humans and animals can be [...]
Frankfurt/Main (dpa) - The Frankfurt "Bündnis Mietentscheid" submitted about 25,000 signatures to the electoral office on Tuesday. The participants want to achieve a referendum on the preservation and expansion of subsidized housing, as spokespersons for the alliance said before the handover.
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Berlin, 22 October 2018: Vattenfall Energy Solutions, Gewobag and the energy storage start-up Lumenion are jointly piloting a new type of sector-coupled steel storage system at Bottroper Weg in Berlin-Tegel, which absorbs regional generation peaks from wind and solar energy in a grid-serving manner and later provides the renewable energy as heat and electricity in line with demand.
Colourful, lively, largely car-free - the people of Tübingen jokingly refer to the French Quarter as the "green hell". However, the residents appreciate the "ideal world feeling".
Deutsche Umwelthilfe calls for immediate proposal for tax incentives for energy-efficient building refurbishment - Building sector makes decisive contribution to achieving climate protection targets - Increase refurbishment rate to 2 percent per year In the draft budget presented by Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on 2 May 2018, the tax incentive [...]
Since 1 May 2018, the amendments to the Hamburg Building Code (HBauO) have come into force. The resolution on this was passed in June 2017. In the future, wood can be used for construction projects with a height of up to 22 metres - i.e. approximately 6 to 7 storeys. Also in the area of [...]
The Clouth Quarter, a project of the Cologne urban development company moderne stadt GmbH, was awarded a "polis AWARD" in silver (2nd prize) in the category "Social Neighbourhood Development". Around 100 local authorities, development companies, architects, property developers and initiatives such as building groups entered the competition. The awards were given to current projects from Germany, grouped in the categories of urban land recycling, [...]
Demand Paper of the Alliance of Young Cooperatives Berlin of March 9, 2018 In order to advance the construction of affordable housing, an Alliance of Young Cooperatives was founded in Berlin in 2017. "Housing cooperatives have been a cornerstone of the socially responsible and affordable housing market in Berlin for well over 100 years," notes the cooperative board of Bremer Höhe and [...]
