Federal Ministry of Building launches "Climate-friendly New Construction" funding programme

The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs is supporting the climate-friendly construction of new buildings with a new funding programme that will start on 1 March 2023. For the first time, the entire life cycle of a building will be considered - from construction to operation to potential deconstruction in the distant future. The buildings are characterised by low greenhouse gas emissions in the life cycle, high energy efficiency, low operating costs and a high proportion of renewable energies for the generation of heat and electricity. This funding thus makes a contribution to climate protection and to meeting national climate targets.

Klara Geywitz, Federal Minister for Housing, Building and Urban Development: Climate-friendly building is no longer a can-do decision, but a must. Those who build today as they did in the past in order to save money are harming the climate and their wallets through horrendous ancillary costs.
With this 750 million euro annual funding programme, we exclusively promote climate-friendly new construction. Anyone can use the KfW-funded interest rate reduction. It helps exactly when it is often most difficult: when starting the financing for a home or apartment building.
It is important to see this funding programme as part of a large, social and climate-friendly construction funding programme of the federal government. Looking at the year 2023 alone, we are investing several billion in social housing, Trainee- and student housing, in the promotion of home ownership for families, the construction of apartment buildings and cooperative housing. Targeted funding, thinking about tomorrow today and excluding windfall profits - that is the funding principle of this federal government in building.

To the programme:

Funding is provided for the construction of new buildings and the initial purchase of newly constructed climate-friendly and energy-efficient residential and non-residential buildings that fall below specific limits for greenhouse gas emissions in the life cycle and meet the energy standard of an Efficiency House 40 / Efficiency Building 40 for new buildings.
There is greater support for buildings that also achieve the Quality Seal Sustainable Building (QNG).
Funding is provided in the form of low-interest loans for the construction of climate-friendly residential and non-residential buildings. Investors, cooperatives, companies and private individuals can apply through their development banks.
In addition, municipalities and districts receive investment grants e.g. for the construction of flats, day-care centres or schools.
The "Climate-friendly New Construction" funding programme is part of the federal funding for efficient buildings, which differentiates between funding for new construction projects and measures in existing buildings.
As of 1 January 2023, responsibility for new construction funding has been transferred from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection to the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction.
With the implementation of the funding programme, the BMWSB the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) has been commissioned. In future, applications for funding can be submitted there. Until then, it is ensured that the new construction funding programme "Efficient House / Efficient Building 40 Sustainability Class" of the BEG of the BMWK continues.

The federal funding for efficient buildings - climate-friendly new construction is a measure of cross-sectoral climate protection. The new requirements for greenhouse gas emissions in the life cycle are as follows a.o. an important contribution to limiting "grey emissions", the greenhouse gas emissions that can be traced back to the production and construction of buildings, including the supply chain. According to the BBSR-According to the study "Environmental Footprint of Buildings in Germany", the production, construction and modernisation of buildings accounts for around 7 % of national greenhouse gas emissions (about 65 million tonnes of CO₂-equivalents). Added to this are 35 million tonnes of CO₂-equivalents from suppliers abroad.

In addition, the new programme contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the building sector to 67 million tonnes of CO₂-equivalents and thus achieve both the national and the European energy and climate targets by 2030. The annual CO₂-equivalent reduction targets for the individual sectors are derived from the permissible annual emission quantities of the Federal Climate Protection Act.

Programme funds amounting to 1.1 billion euros are available from the Climate and Transformation Fund in 2023. Of this amount, 750 million euros will be allocated to the Climate-Friendly New Construction funding programme and 350 million euros to home ownership funding for families.

In the appendix you will find the Guideline for the "Climate-friendly new construction" programme

Source: PM BMWSB 25.1.2023

Keywords: DE-News, Funding, Climate protection, Quarters, Settlements, Environmental policy, Housing, Housing policy

Published 2 May 2018

Half-time of the IBA Heidelberg: The exhibition is opened

Opening of the exhibition (from left to right): Carl Zillich, Curatorial Director of the IBA Heidelberg, Hanne Rung, Project Manager of the interim presentation, Mayor of the City of Heidelberg Hans-Jürgen Heiß, Gunther Adler, State Secretary for Building, Jürgen Odszuck, First Mayor of the City of Heidelberg and Michael Braum, Managing Director of the IBA Heidelberg *© IBA Heidelberg | Tobias Dittmer*

The exhibition marking the halfway point of the IBA Heidelberg has opened: A rich accompanying programme attracted almost 1000 visitors from Thursday to Saturday, many of whom were visiting the exhibition venue, the Mark Twain Center in Heidelberg's Südstadt, for the first time.

The IBA SUMMIT, the biennial meeting of mayors, university rectors and urban planners from international "Knowledge Pearls" in Heidelberg, heralded the opening days of the IBA interim presentation on 26 April. Prof. Dr Eckart Würzner, Lord Mayor of the City of Heidelberg welcomed the guests from Stanford, Cambridge, Lund and Leuven with an introduction to the IBA: "The IBA Heidelberg is on an excellent path. It demonstrates how various strengths of our city can be interwoven. These include, for example, promoting education, developing environmentally friendly mobility, creating new living space and promoting climate-neutral urban development. The IBA has made a significant contribution to the sense of a new beginning in Heidelberg.

The vernissage of the exhibition took place at the Mark Twain Center on the evening of 27 April. Gunther Adler, State Secretary for Building, Housing and Urban Development in the Federal Ministry of the Interior spoke on the occasion about the "IBA" format from the federal government's point of view. According to Adler, the IBA is an important piece of German building culture that enjoys international renown and is worth every effort to pursue its claim to excellence. The IBA tradition encompasses many aspects: International relevance, next-practice projects, sustainable impact on the region and building culture standards. For the IBAs currently underway, it is sometimes difficult to fully meet these claims to excellence under the given framework conditions. "Nevertheless, we are seeing overwhelming results, which encourage us as a federal government to continue the quality offensive together - also within the framework of the IBA Heidelberg," the State Secretary emphasised. "We need the IBA to show us how we can find answers to relevant questions of current urban development using new and unusual methods and means - this is more urgent today than ever. The IBA's courage to experiment and to go beyond existing boundaries is important to address the quality of living, working and living in our cities in the future."

Jürgen Odszuck, First Mayor of the City of HeidelbergThe IBA's interim presentation provides an excellent overview of what it is doing in Heidelberg: it gives important new impulses on how we can further develop Heidelberg as the knowledge city of tomorrow. It promotes excellent building projects in our city. And it offers innovative approaches on how we can design processes more effectively and lead to even better results."

Michael Braum, Managing Director of the IBA Heidelberg, was pleased about the great response to the exhibition opening and welcomed the guests: "Innovation in the knowledge society uses its intellectual and creative resources. This changes the value system of the industrial society, in which diligence stood above creativity. Today, in the knowledge society, creativity may be more important than diligence. This also has implications for the city. Our cities will change more dynamically in the 21st century than they did in the course of industrialisation. This requires a new way of thinking in urban planning and architecture. The IBA would like to make a contribution to this, which can now be seen in this exhibition."

Carl Zillich, Curatorial Director of the IBA Heidelbergexplained the exhibition concept: "Before we present realised building projects for the knowledge city of tomorrow in 2022, we have focused at the halfway point on the actors, processes and ideas of the first five years. Together with the exhibition makers from 'Stiftung Freizeit', we have developed analogue and at the same time interactive forms of presentation. Thus, for different interests, individual glimpses behind the scenes of the IBA, the urban development of international science cities, but also Heidelberg institutions and initiatives are on offer. Numerous architectural models, pictures and plans have already aroused curiosity about the construction sites, which are now marked all over the city."

The opening days closed on Saturday, 28 April with a colourful programme, during which many young families in particular got an impression of the exhibition and the IBA projects.

The exhibition of the IBA interim presentation is now open until 8 July daily from Tuesdays to Sundays from 15.00 - 20.00, including public holidays.

More information about the exhibition, guided tours, registration or booking of individual group tours at:
www.iba.heidelberg.de

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