In North Rhine-Westphalia, around one in two (50.6 percent) of the 18,334 residential buildings (excluding dormitories) approved in 2019 are to be heated predominantly or exclusively with renewable energies.
Düsseldorf (IT.NRW). In North Rhine-Westphalia, around one in two (50.6 per cent) of the 18 334 residential buildings approved in 2019 (excluding dormitories) will be heated predominantly or exclusively with renewable energies. These 9 283 residential buildings use biomass, biogas/biomethane, wood, solar panels and/or heat pumps as primary heating energy. As reported by Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen as the State Statistical Office on the occasion of this year's Renewable Energy Day (25 April 2020), the share of construction projects using environmentally friendly heating energies was highest statewide in the Olpe district last year: there, builders relied on renewable energies in 82.2 percent of new buildings. Bottrop (81.3 percent) and the district of Kleve (73.8 percent) followed in second and third place. Building owners in Solingen and the district of Mettmann, on the other hand, planned to use conventional heating energy in the majority of cases in 2019: Here, renewable energies were the primary heating source in around one in five and one in four residential building projects respectively (Solingen: 22.7 per cent; Mettmann district: 26.7 per cent). (IT.NRW)
The aim of the handbook is to provide municipal actors with concrete tools that can be used to keep and locate production in urban areas. In the joint project UrbaneProduktion.Ruhr, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, research was carried out from October 2016 to December 2019 into whether and how it is possible to bring production back to the city.
The handbook offers answers to the questions: What will the city of the future look like? And what role do manufacturing companies play in this? How can their number be increased again, especially in the city? The handbook and the research project are the work of: UrbaneProduktion.Ruhr of the Institute for Work and Technology of the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, the Bochum University of Applied Sciences, the Urbanists and the City of Bochum. For three years, opportunities and challenges of urban production were researched in real laboratories in Bochum-Langendreer and Bochum-Wattenscheid. The focus is on businesses that process or manufacture material products. These include classic craft enterprises such as carpentry shops and bakeries as well as industrial enterprises and urban agriculture.
"Municipalities are crucial drivers for the sustainable development of our society," explains Dr. Werner Schnappauf, Chairman of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE). "All 17 sustainability goals are directly or indirectly related to the tasks of a municipality. The new reporting framework sustainable municipality, the BNK, can be a great help for further progress in the field of sustainability", says Schnappauf.
From the municipal side, there has long been great interest in a tool for good sustainability reporting. Many municipalities have already developed sustainability strategies, for example within the framework of the project "Globally Sustainable Municipality" of the Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW) of Engagement Global. However, until now there has been no instrument to evaluate the implementation of the strategies and to adjust them if necessary. The Dialogue "Sustainable City represented mayors have therefore asked the RNE in 2019 to develop a reporting system that can build on the German Sustainability Code (DNK) for companies. In response, the Sustainability Council, together with the mayors represented in the "Sustainable City" dialogue, the Regional Sustainability Strategy Network (RENN) and a large number of other stakeholders, has developed a "Sustainable Community Reporting Framework" (BNK).
"Based on my many years of experience as a district administrator, it is particularly important to me that the RNE represents an offer for all municipalities and is thus also available to districts. We are pleased that the RNE has also been cooperating closely with the districts since last year," said Schnappauf.
"As municipalities, we are implementing the transformation to sustainability" emphasizes Markus Lewe, Council Member, Lord Mayor of the City of Münster and Vice-President of the German Association of Cities, in the foreword to the BNK handout. "Overall, the BNK focuses on process orientation. It is not about evaluating results or comparing municipalities with each other. It is about moving forward together and the many steps on the way to more sustainability," said Lewe.
The BNK will be tested in joint projects with SKEW and many RENN partners from March 2021. The city of Aschaffenburg will be the first of probably 20 pilot municipalities from all over Germany to prepare its own sustainability report based on the BNK. The kick-off for the Aschaffenburg sustainability report was yesterday's city council meeting. "The city of Aschaffenburg sees itself as a municipality with the responsibility to perform all its tasks in terms of sustainability and thus to be a role model. This responsibility is seen as a cross-sectional task in the administration and the council, in which all citizens also participate, and has a long tradition in Aschaffenburg," said Jürgen Herzing, Lord Mayor of the City of Aschaffenburg and member of the RNE's "Sustainable City" dialogue.
The experiences from the 20 pilot municipalities will be incorporated into the further development of the reporting framework. The publication "Reporting framework for sustainable municipalities" is now available at here.
Source: PM of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) of 4.3.2021
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic
Dec 08, 2020
The Europe Sustainable Development Report 2020 is the second edition of our independent quantitative report on the progress of the European Union and its member states towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report was prepared by teams of independent experts at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP).
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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