New Hamburg building regulations with timber construction improvements come into force
Published
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 up to 22 metres high - about 6 to 7 storeys.
The changes in the new HBauO also have an effect in the area of accessibility. Previously, it was necessary to build all barrier-free flats in a building on the same floor. In the future, the flats can also be distributed over several floors.
In cooperation between the TU Darmstadt and the Institute Housing and Environment (IWU), the endowed junior professorship "Models of Housing and Energy Policy in Cities" was established and filled by the scientist Kai Schulze. He teaches and conducts research at the Institute of Political Science in the Department of Social and Historical Sciences at TU Darmstadt.
Schulze's research focuses on environmental and energy policy analysis. To this end, he combines theories and approaches of policy analysis, comparative politics and Europeanisation. The junior professorship could also build thematic bridges to the engineering sciences. At the same time, the Institute Housing and Environment expects valuable impulses. The IWU, a non-profit institute financed by the State of Hesse and the City of Darmstadt, conducts interdisciplinary research on the housing market and housing policy as well as on the efficient use of energy in buildings. "From the cooperation with the endowed junior professorship, we hope to make valuable contributions to make findings from research more usable for policy and societal advice," says Dr. Monika Meyer, managing director of IWU. The Institute will bear the personnel costs of the junior professorship, which is initially limited to three years and can be extended for a further three years.
Broad alliance of civil society, science, business and practice demands,
take the entire life cycle of construction into account
In addition to energy consumption in the use phase, the climate impact must be
of building materials and the construction and disposal of buildings
be considered
National climate targets can only be achieved if all savings potentials of the
construction sector can be used
A broad alliance of actors from civil society, science, industry and practice is calling on the German government to promote the climate-friendly construction, maintenance and demolition of buildings. Up to now, only the use phase of buildings has been taken into account in state subsidies for buildings and in the Building Energy Act. There is a complete lack of specifications and consideration of the climate impact of building materials and the construction and disposal of buildings - despite the fact that the construction sector, with its upstream and downstream processes, contributes around 8 percent to German greenhouse gas emissions.
More than 60 supporters have already signed the appeal "Focusing on the entire building life cycle - a key issue for climate protection", which was published today. With the appeal, the Alliance calls for requirements to be placed on the entire life cycle of the building in federal funding for efficient buildings and in the Building Energy Act.
Dr. Ulrich Wischnath, executive director of Bauwende explains, "The importance of upstream and downstream processes in construction is significant. Today, a typical new building has already caused half of its energy consumption and CO2 emissions before it is first used. We can only reduce this environmental impact if the legal requirements for buildings also apply to the construction and building materials.“
Barbara MetzDeputy Federal Executive Director of Deutsche Umwelthilfe adds: "For effective climate protection, we must consider the entire life cycle of buildings. There is great potential for reducing climate gases from construction and building materials - but this is in danger of being wasted due to a lack of specifications. That's why state funding for renovation and construction must also be linked to criteria that guarantee sustainable building all round."
"The faster the framework conditions are set, the faster the implementation will start and the more houses will be built with the improved climate standard. This is not only good for the climate. Sustainable construction methods and materials also conserve resources and reduce further environmental impacts of the construction sector," notes Danny Püschel, energy policy and climate protection officer at NABU.
The signatories of the appeal point out that after more than 30 years of research and more than a decade of practical testing, there are established procedures for an assessment oriented to the life cycle of buildings. The Federal Government must make sustainable building more widespread by launching the "Federal Promotion for Efficient Buildings" at the beginning of the year. The Building Energy Act must also be revised so that it formulates requirements for buildings that relate to their environmental impact over their entire life cycle. Only in this way can the enormous potential for savings in construction and disposal be tackled in a targeted manner.
The Signatories of the call represent a broad spectrum: from building material manufacturers to energy consultant associations and other building professionals to large environmental associations and the Architects for Future.
The appeal is open for signature until the end of January. Afterwards, it will be presented at a public event and discussed with political representatives. If you would like to sign the appeal, please contact wischnath@bauwende.de
Contact
Dr. Ulrich Wischnath, Managing Director, Bauwende
0176 64059904, wischnath@bauwende.de
Constantin Zerger, Head of Energy and Climate Protection, Deutsche Umwelthilfe
0160 433 40 14, zerger@duh.de
Danny Püschel, Energy Policy and Climate Protection Officer
03028 49 84-15 21, Danny.Pueschel@NABU.DE
Download
The Joint Call "Focusing on the whole life cycle of construction - a key issue for climate protection".
Great joy in Aachen: One of the central urban development projects is awarded special federal funding.
Mayor Sibylle Keupen: "This is a super message for our city!"
The Büchel old town quarter is one of 24 projects nationwide that are now being supported with a total of 75 million euros.
98 cities and municipalities had applied.
A most welcome piece of news reached the city of Aachen this morning (17 March 2021): Federal Minister Horst Seehofer has announced this year's selection of the "National Projects of Urban Development" and announced that the development of the Büchel old town quarter will receive up to 5.5 million euros in funding. Aachen is thus one of four municipalities in NRW to have been awarded the contract. With the amount of funding, the city is in third place nationwide.
Great news from Berlin: The federal government wants to support the development of the Büchel in Aachen's city centre with up to 5.5 million euros. Photo: City of Aachen / Andreas Herrmann
OBin Keupen: "We feel the spirit of optimism!"
"This is a great message for our city," says Mayor Sibylle Keupen in her first reaction. "We have long felt the spirit of optimism around the Büchel in Aachen. The demolition of the multi-storey car park is imminent, the planning workshop was a great success, many groundbreaking political decisions have been made, and more are on the horizon. Above all, many city makers are on board and want to be involved in a very concrete way. They want to participate, to shape, to plan, to build. The fact that this high level of commitment of all those involved here on site has now also triggered such a response at federal level encourages us to continue on the path of 'making a city at Büchel'."
City Planning Director Burgdorff: "Aachen can play in the Bundesliga!"
The municipal councillor for urban development, construction and mobility, Frauke Burgdorff, adds: "I am extremely pleased that Aachen, if it sticks together, can also play in the Bundesliga! Aachen's politicians have united behind the project and have given their backing to the state and federal governments. Thank you for that! But I would also like to express my sincere thanks to those who have done the substantive work here on site, to the municipal project manager Nils Jansen as well as to Christoph Guth and Antje Eickhoff, who have done an excellent job on the part of the municipal development company SEGA."
Making town at the Büchel
A special piece of the city at eye level is to be created at Büchel. It is being developed together with many committed people and institutions. With this approach, it has also precisely met the requirements of the call for proposals. The Federal Ministry's project overview states: "Knowledge, living, meadow" are the keywords under which a mixed-use, urban quarter is to be created in the heart of Aachen's old town in a cooperative and exemplary development process that is wanted and supported by the urban community.
The basis for the development is the exploratory procedure "Stadt machen am Büchel" (Making a city at Büchel), which the city of Aachen launched in spring 2020. City Planning Director Burgdorff sums up: "A multi-storey car park has been blocking the development of the old town for decades. We are tearing it down and building a new urban quarter. The urban community itself is developing the programme, urban design and investment strategy. This project offers a unique opportunity to find answers to the question of how a major wound in the old city can be healed with contemporary building-cultural responses."
The next steps
Following today's basic commitment by the federal government to fund the project, the detailed applications for funding will be drawn up in phase 2. In this ongoing process - and on the basis of upcoming landmark decisions of Aachen's municipal politics - it will now be worked out how the Büchel of the future will take shape with the funding millions.
National urban development projects
National urban development projects are nationally and internationally visible, larger-scale urban development projects with clear impulses for the respective municipality or city, the region and urban development policy in Germany as a whole. They are characterised by a special quality standard with regard to the urban development approach, the building culture aspects and the participation processes, contribute to the realisation of the federal government's building policy objectives and have innovation potential. National urban development projects are projects that generally solve tasks and problems of considerable financial dimension. The focus is on the major challenges currently facing cities and municipalities in Germany (e.g. preservation of existing buildings, conversions, sustainable neighbourhood development).
A total of 24 projects for forward-looking urban development are being funded by the federal government with a total of around 75 million euros. 98 cities and municipalities from all over Germany applied for the funding.
More info Interesting facts about the Büchel can be found on the Internet at www.buechel-aachen.de
From Aprill 2021 the Demolition work on the Büchel multi-storey car park. All the info on this has been presented as part of an online event. The stream is still available on the YouTube channel of the city of Aachen: https://youtu.be/KQqFq6v_edA.
Within the framework of a cooperative planning workshop, three teams of experts developed three exciting designs for the Büchel, each with a focus on the major themes of "knowledge, living, meadow". The final presentation of the planning workshop, which took place digitally in January 2021, is also still available as a stream: https://youtu.be/AWSb5Gx3gKA.
We use cookies to optimize our website and services.
Functional
Always active
Technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a particular service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that have not been requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access, which is solely for statistical purposes.Technical storage or access used solely for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary consent from your Internet service provider, or additional records from third parties, information stored or accessed for this purpose cannot generally be used alone to identify you.
Marketing
Technical storage or access is necessary to create user profiles, to send advertising or to track the user on a website or across multiple websites for similar marketing purposes.
