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Messages in 2012

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12/2012: NABU Negative Award goes to Ilse Aigner
www.nabu.de/aktionenundprojekte/dinodesjahres

11/2012: Europe's tallest cross laminated timber skyscrapers with nine floors currently in Milan
www.proholz.at/...mailand...

Research project "PlusEnergyQuartier Oberursel" with about 150 apartments and commercial use starts
www.fr-online.de/...oberursel

10/2012: Built Environment release "Co-Housing in the Making“
The current issue of the English-language journal "Built Environment" deals with communal living on an international level. Authors from Finland, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany, the United States and the Netherlands deal with different aspects of communal living or "co-housing".
Issue reference: www.alexandrinepress.co.uk

10/2012: The most sustainable cities and municipalities of the German Sustainability Award 2012
www.difu.de/...deutscher-nachhaltigkeitspreis-2012...

10/2012: Solar cell record with 44% efficiency
www.solarserver.com/...world-record-solar-cell...

9/2012: IBA Hamburg's BIQ - Microalgae Building
The innovative project in Hamburg Wilhelmsburg is the first house in the world to supply itself with energy via a building façade made of photovoltaic collectors. The flexible interior design also sets standards for the urban life of the future
www.biq-wilhelmsburg.de

8/2012: Climate protection in municipalities: practical guide
The practical guide was funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and developed by the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) in cooperation with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (ifeu) and Climate Alliance. Difu was responsible for project management and leadership.
The guide, which was already published in 1997, was fundamentally revised in terms of content and structure due to the lively demand from municipalities throughout the Federal Republic and supplemented with current focal points and fields of action. The new guide once again contains numerous current practical examples that are intended to motivate local authorities to emulate or undertake their own climate protection activities.
www.leitfaden.kommunaler-klimaschutz.de

7/2012: On the website www.informationsdienst-holz.de information about planning and building with wood will be available again.

7/2012: Research team from Freiburg introduces natural hard foams from bark extract here:
www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/...

6/2012: Flagship project "Hamburg Water Cycle"In 770 residential units for approx. 2,000 inhabitants, toilet wastewater (black water) and other domestic wastewater (grey water) is discharged separately. The black water is collected in concentrated form via vacuum toilets with negative pressure technology and converted into biogas together with organic waste in a biogas plant:
www.hamburgwatercycle.de/...jenfelder-au

Past the need: 50,000 square meters of unletable office space in Hamburg's HafenCity
www.spiegel.de/...hamburgs-hafencity

5/2012: 20,000 MW output from German solar plants for the first time
www.iwrpressedienst.de/...

4/2012: Subsidy programmes for energy-efficient construction and refurbishment in full. The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag has released the full amount of funds for the CO2 Building Rehabilitation Programmes for 2012. This means that EUR 1.5 billion per year will be available for the KfW programmes from 2012 to 2014:
www.eco-info.de/...

3/2012: Leitfaden Nachhaltigkeitsorientierte Architekturwettbewerbe. Published by: Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg 2011
www.hamburg.de/lena

2/2012: Damien Hirst invests in 500 eco-homes in southern England
This was reported by various newspapers. According to the report, the houses will be equipped with wind turbines on the roofs, solar panels and state-of-the-art insulation technology. Hirst hopes that the settlement will become a model for sustainable living and a sustainable development of the region. In Devon, the 46-year-old artist already runs a restaurant, a studio and owns several properties. The estate's architect comes pen-led by Mike Rundell of London-based MRJ Rundell + Associates, Architects and Designers. Construction work on the 32-hectare site near Killacleave is due to start in 2013.

2/2012: Reference book "50 Solar Housing Estates in North Rhine-Westphalia". Published
www.energieagentur.nrw.de/solarsiedlungen/page.asp?InfoID=11022

1/2012: Largest Swiss timber construction in Minergie-P Eco construction, car-free living concept and multi-generation living in Oberwinterthur under construction
www.giesserei-gesewo.ch

1/2012: German construction booming in 2011 - 2012 no longer
The construction industry expects sales to grow by 1.0 percent in real terms in 2012. Following a boom year in 2011, the main construction industry association is now preparing its members for a difficult year in an uncertain overall economic environment.
www.heute.de/...


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Book Review Building for the Community in Vienna

Solidary, Participative, Pioneering

Isabella Marboe (ed.) Bauen für die Gemeinschaft in Wien Neue gemeinschaftliche Formen des Zusammenlebens. Edition Detail 2021, 144 pages, de/eng, Euro 39.90

Review by Roman Schaurhofer, Vienna

Overview 

The book "Building for the Community in Vienna" was published in 2021 by Isabella Marboe at Verlag Detail. All texts were printed in German and English in the book. In addition to an interview conducted by Marboe with Ulrike Schartner and Alexander Hagner, Robert Temel has his say in an expert article.

All in all, the book deals with 20 building projects in the Austrian capital Vienna and offers insight into the respective planning as well as the organisational and structural realisation of those very communities. 

Content 

At the beginning, Isabella Marboe looks back at historically relevant and significant events surrounding Viennese housing, community in everyday life and housing, and participatory building. The editor then highlights the importance and significance of the architect Ottokar Uhl and his work. Especially the projects "Living with Children" and "B.R.O.T." are mentioned and described as positive examples. In addition, Marboe goes into more detail about the historical developments surrounding the "Sargfabrik" and "MISS Sargfabrik" projects. Isabella Marboe is committed to a communal and socially solidary as well as responsible coexistence. 

In Robert Temel's contribution, after a historical classification of Austrian pioneer and follow-up projects, there is also a brief description of organisational and ownership models. This is followed by an outline of the emergence of building communities and their possibilities for acquiring a building plot, as well as a comparison of several models implemented in Vienna. 

In an interview, Ulrike Schartner and Alexander Hagner from gaupenraub+/- explained the many challenges that arise when creating quality housing for homeless people and at the same time show approaches to dealing with problems of this kind. 

After the essays and the interview, there is a more detailed examination of the individual projects. A brief description, accompanied by key figures and background information, provides insights into the planning and implementation of the respective community ideas. In addition, illustrations and detailed plans (often in the form of floor plans) give the reader a better understanding of the structure and function of the respective project. In addition to individual buildings, row houses, multi-storey residential buildings and neighbourhood houses that stand out from their surroundings were also selected. 

Criticism 

The social and socially solidary approach of the project examples stands out in a clearly positive way. Each of the projects features people-oriented planning and high-quality implementation geared to the wishes of the residents, without losing sight of the demand for high-quality architecture. Although the communal and participatory character is clearly in the foreground as a unifying element, the individual projects cannot be denied their uniqueness and individuality in approach. 

The detailed information, underpinned by pictorial representations, enables the reader to place the projects conceptually and contextually in their respective environment. With the overview and detailed descriptions of the sample projects, the editor Isabella Marboe offers a solid basis with carefully researched project examples for professional discourse and a more intensive examination of the topic of building communities. 

February 2021, Hardcover, 23 x 30 cm, German / English

Text samples or buy the book from the publisher:
www.detail.de/de_de/bauen-fuer-die-gemeinschaft-in-wien



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Cohousing, DE-News, New books and studies, News Blog Austria, Vienna, Housing, Housing projects

Record year for green electricity worldwide: sun and wind outpace coal
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Record year for green electricity worldwide: sun and wind outpace coal

The new report from the International Energy Agency has it all: the electricity supply from renewable energies is growing faster than expected - and for the first time even faster than coal-fired power. An incredible turning point.

Read the whole article: https://blog.campact.de/2016/11/rekordjahr-fuer-oekostrom-weltweit-sonne-und-wind-haengen-kohle-endlich-ab/



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KfW presents SDG mapping of its new commitments in 2019

  • Over EUR 28 billion for "climate protection measures": KfW is one of the most important supporters of the Paris climate goals
  • Promotional bank is a global pioneer with its standardised SDG mapping
  • Strong international interest in KfW SDG mapping

KfW is today publishing the results of the SDG mapping of new commitments throughout the Group in 2019. In order to clarify the individual contribution made by KfW's new commitments to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, KfW has developed a standardised procedure: 1,500 indicators are used each year to determine to which SDGs KfW's new commitments can be assigned. This makes the contribution transparent at both group and business sector level.


The mapping of individual new commitments from 2019 to the Sustainable Development Goals shows the following funding priorities:

  • SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (approx. EUR 29.0 billion)
  • SDG 13: Climate action (around EUR 28.2 billion)
  • SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth (approx. EUR 28.1 billion)
  • SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy (approx. EUR 26.4 billion)

"With more than EUR 28 billion for 'climate action', we are one of the most important supporters of the Paris climate goals worldwide," explains Dr Günther Bräunig, Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Sustainability Officer of KfW Bankengruppe. "The fact that we are also making substantial contributions to all other 16 SDGs at the same time shows how we combine the environmental with the economic and social dimensions of sustainability as part of our broad legal mandate."

The financial sector can and must make significant contributions to the efforts to achieve greater climate protection and sustainability. As a transformative promotional bank, KfW is assuming particular responsibility in this regard and already launched the "KfW Roadmap Sustainable Finance" project in summer 2018, the aim of which is to develop a stringent and multidimensional sustainability concept for the bank. One of the first results is the group-wide SDG mapping, which makes KfW's contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) transparent. With this volume-based and largely automated mapping approach, KfW is one of the pioneers worldwide in terms of recording and publishing SDG financing targets.

Since the initial publication of the SDG mapping of KfW's 2018 new commitments in September 2019, international interest in KfW's SDG mapping has been high. Many partners are currently planning similar publications and would therefore like to learn more about KfW's own mapping methodology. An exchange to this effect has now taken place with several European promotional banks and multilateral organisations, among others.

Detailed information on KfW SDG mapping:
www.kfw.de/sdgs

Source: KfW-PM dated 9.3.2020



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DE-News, Renewable, Funding, Climate protection, Sustainable management, New books and studies, Quarters, SDG 2030, Settlements, City, Economics

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