Convincing concept from Freiburg engineers: the cargo bike trailer reacts via a sensor to the movements of the leading person and supports with an electric motor when driving or braking. Carla Cargo is approved for a load of up to 150 kg. In the video you can see how Carla Cargo works.
Link
www.carlacargo.de
How can Wuppertal become a climate-neutral city by 2035? This question is discussed by the Wuppertal Institute in this new study, which was presented by Lord Mayor Uwe Schneidewind on 1.7.2021.
The whole study as pdf online:
https://wupperinst.org/…Klimaneutral_Wuppertal_2035.pdf
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100% EEs, CO2-neutral, DE-News, Research, Climate protection, Communities, New books and studies, News Blog NRW
In 2015, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy approved 939 new projects totalling 548 million euros. In the previous year, the figure was 695 projects with 373 million euros in funding. The majority of the funds were channelled into wind energy, photovoltaics, energy efficiency in buildings and cities, energy storage and grid infrastructure. The EnArgus information system and the BMWi's research portals (see column on the right) provide a detailed insight into the projects and the funds utilised. For energy efficiency in buildings and cities, the volume of funding for newly approved projects in 2015 totalled 73.48 million euros (13% ).
Source: www.bmwi.de/...publikationen,did=763804.html
Keywords:
Renewable, Funding, Building, Climate protection, City
03.07.2019
In its meeting on 3 July 2019, the municipal council decided to introduce the principles for "socially just land use in Darmstadt" (SoBoDA) and to set up 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 used as a new overarching political steering instrument, and is listed in it under point eight.
Among other things, it obliges developers and investors to designate housing for low and medium incomes, to assume costs for planning services, development facilities and compensatory measures, and to participate in the financing of day-care centres and primary schools.
"Our goal is 10,000 new flats by 2020 - the introduction of the principles as well as the SoBoDA project group are elementary components of this plan. In this way, we ensure sustainable and socially acceptable housing development in the City of Science Darmstadt. For all services that developers are obliged to provide, the project group will ensure that the measures remain appropriate. Each building project will be individually assessed on the basis of a defined scheme by correlating areas, building rights, values and encumbrances and finally mapping the increase in value," explains Lord Mayor Jochen Partsch.
"Since March 2017, it has already been the case for the City of Science Darmstadt that at least 25 per cent of the gross floor area of housing must be secured for socially subsidised rental housing and at least 20 per cent for middle-income housing," adds Barbara Akdeniz, head of the social affairs department.
"For urban land, a municipal commitment under the SoBoDA stipulates that an additional up to 10 per cent of housing will be secured for special forms of housing, for example housing projects by cooperatives, building and housing groups, senior citizens or assisted living," Akdeniz continues.
In combination with the other 20 measures and instruments of the housing policy concept - including the development of new building areas, redensification, qualified rent index, rent brake - the City of Science Darmstadt is using the SoBoDA to drive the creation of housing and show how the urgently needed affordable housing in Darmstadt can be achieved.
The comprehensive portfolio of instruments and measures of the housing policy concept is primarily intended to improve the supply of population groups disadvantaged on the housing market (low and medium income). Through the development of social, ecological and transport policy innovative concepts, further neighbourhoods with a high quality of life will be created in the urban area.
Background: The principles of socially appropriate land use apply to urban development contracts/implementation contracts insofar as new, additional planning law for residential use is created. Only if the city creates new planning law and the investor can expect an appropriate added value as a result, can urban development contracts with the specification of "socially appropriate land use" measures be considered. In contracts for the allocation and sale of urban land to be used as housing, the rules of the SoBoDA apply regardless of new planning law. The housing policy concept as well as the regulatory contents of the SoBoDA are regularly evaluated and adapted if necessary. .
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Soil & land consumption, DE-News, Communities, Social / Culture, City, Housing policy
"The raw material wood is precious. It is therefore important to use it responsibly and in a way that conserves resources," warns Peter Aicher, Chairman of Holzbau Deutschland. Even if wood is affected by environmental influences or the bark beetle, it does not represent an inferior raw material, but has almost identical properties to conventional construction timber. "If the so-called 'calamity wood' has the same structural quality in terms of load-bearing capacity as conventional sawn timber, it can be used without restrictions," explains Aicher. In addition, the wood retains its important function as a CO2 sink, regardless of external impairments.
"If the wood is used as a building material, the carbon bound in the wood remains stored there in the long term, thereby significantly reducing the burden on the environment."
The goal must be an economically and ecologically sensible and efficient use of the domestic resource. In the interests of sustainability and climate protection, regional wood resources should therefore be used optimally.
Calamity wood is of high quality and can be used without restrictions
In most cases, bark beetle infestation is irrelevant for the use of the wood as a building material. The bark beetle lays its burrows in the bast, i.e. the area between the bark (bark) and the trunk, but not in the load-bearing wood itself. In addition, the sawn timber is technically dried during further processing. During this process at the latest, any remaining populations of insect pests are reliably killed off, so that beetle-free timber processed into sawn timber is guaranteed to be beetle-free. Every piece of sawn timber - regardless of its origin - must meet the criteria of DIN standard 4074 in order to be used as load-bearing timber in a building. In some cases, the wood turns a slightly bluish colour after a bark beetle infestation. It can then be used in the non-visible area.
Environmental factors and the effects of climate change have further facilitated the mass spread of the bark beetle in the past year. In most cases, rapid felling of the affected trees is the only alternative to stop the further spread of the pest. The logs are immediately removed from the forest and stored. This results in an oversupply of so-called 'beetle wood'. The prompt further processing of the calamity wood into sawn timber is an active contribution to climate protection.
Holzbau Deutschland appeals to the public sector as well as to architects and builders to make greater use of regional calamity wood and to specify this in tenders. The use of domestic calamity wood not only supports regional value creation, but is also a sign of solidarity with regional forest owners.
Source: Holzbau Deutschland-PM from 5.3.2021
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Building materials / Construction, Procurement, DE-News, Wood construction, Climate protection, NaWaRohs, Sustainable management, Quarters, Resource efficiency, Settlements, City, Housing
