A total of 150 million hectares of destroyed forest to be rebuilt An important milestone in the Federal Environment Ministry's international nature conservation and climate protection policy has been reached. The so-called "Bonn Challenge" initiated by Germany to rebuild forests has succeeded in getting countries to pledge a total of 150 million hectares. Achieved was [...]
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The Bavarian Solar Energy Promotion Association (SeV) is offering the 27,000 euro competition for architecturally and technically sophisticated solar systems for the 7th time The use of solar energy in and on buildings is a central topic in the context of energy-efficient construction. Solar technology systems should be a natural component of innovative building envelopes as well as building blocks of energy-efficient renovation. The task [...]
Publisher: Sennestadt GmbH Publisher: Fraunhofer IRB Verlag 2017, 150 pages At the specialist conference week "Gutes Klima im Quartier" (Good Climate in the Neighbourhood), 250 experts from all over Germany discussed issues of sustainable and climate-friendly neighbourhood development. The seven symposia in September 2016 brought important insights, many new ideas and innovative concepts for transformation processes in the neighbourhood. [...]
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is promoting highly ambitious and innovative concepts for nearly climate-neutral buildings and neighbourhoods under the EnEff.Gebäude.2050 funding initiative. The ideas competition is looking for energy concepts that show that nearly climate-neutral buildings and neighbourhoods can already be implemented in practice using today's technologies and [...].
In an elaborate programme, NDR devoted itself to the topic of "Who owns the road? Anyone who cycles a lot will know many of the situations shown only too well. Examples from northern Germany, including Oldenburg and Hamburg, as well as the Koppenhagen model with wide and demarcated cycle paths and the first high-speed cycle path in Germany in NRW "SR1" are shown, but the sense of cycle lanes on the road is also discussed.
For the third time, the BMEL awarded prizes to innovative and pioneering building projects that make significant use of wood and other renewable raw materials. From a total of 127 submissions, a ten-member jury selected eight outstanding building projects and a further 12 special competition entries. The eight winners in the new construction and [...]
"The development on the housing markets puts the German Bundesbank on alert. The crisis traffic light would meanwhile be "on yellow or even dark yellow". In order to counteract a real estate bubble in time, Bundesbank board member Andreas Dombret is calling for stricter measures for real estate financing."
TU Dortmund University conducted an excursion to Paris from 27 to 31 March 2017 as part of the research project "Co-Housing Initiatives in Europe". There, the researchers met French colleagues Anne Labit (Orléans University), Sabrina Bresson (ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine) and Claire Carriou (Paris Nanterre University)."
"Schleswig-Holstein's most popular politician comes from the Green Party and his name is Robert Habeck. He will not run in the state elections." Quoted from a successful portrait in the taz of 28.4.2017: www.taz.de/Habeck-Syndrom/!5401443
"Why do the same dreary blocks of flats have to be built everywhere?" asks F.A.Z. economics writer Nadine Oberhuber in her article of 26.04.2017. She thinks "unambitious" is still the most harmless word of the viewers for the block architecture". As a main cause she quotes her F.A.Z. colleague and architecture critic Niklas Maak who observes a "radical economization of building", similar to [...]
The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo is creating more space for cyclists and pedestrians - and wants to push cars out of the city in the long term. Everything else is "old-fashioned". Read what is planned in the article from 9.1.2017: www.faz.net/...paris-buergermeisterin-anne-hidalgo-sagt-autos-den-kampf-an-14611364.html
City as a pioneer of mobility change Wuppertal is making a name for itself in terms of sustainable and modern transport systems. It is not only the 100-year-old suspension railway that has long stood for the city as a symbol of innovative modes of transport. The new Nordbahn route for cyclists and pedestrians above the roofs of the city has brought great recognition nationwide. A modern [...]
It's an attitude to life: without a car, but a bike. Whereas it can also be more, to have the right bike for all undertakings, without a car it also works When the brakes of my car were rusted due to too long standing time, it was clear: I no longer need one. What does it have for [...]
On the costs of modernisation measures for tenants The Working Group on Tenancy Law in the RAV published the brochure "Modernisation as a price driver" in November 2016. It describes in detail the problematic effects of modernisation measures on tenants. In addition, the authors criticise the legal situation and call for fundamental new regulations under tenancy law.
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2017 http://datatopics.worldbank.org/sdgatlas/ Topic 11: Sustainable cities and communities - make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable https://datatopics.worldbank.org/sdgatlas/archive/2017/index.html
In a team with the architects Dietrich|Untertrifaller, the office Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl won the multiple commission from Freiburger Stadtbau GmbH for the Metzgergrün quarter. The settlement is to change significantly over the next ten years and develop into a contemporary quarter with around 500 apartments, without losing its original character. [...]
In a team with the architects Dietrich|Untertrifaller, the office Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl won the multiple commission from Freiburger Stadtbau GmbH for the Metzgergrün quarter. The settlement is to change significantly over the next ten years and develop into a contemporary quarter with around 500 apartments, without losing its original character. [...]
"When it comes to apartments in Munich, it's mostly about prices. But what does it actually look like in terms of new buildings going up all over the city? All in all: an incredibly expensive disaster."
After one and a half years of consultation, the black-green Hessian state government has adopted its Climate Protection Plan 2025. According to this plan, greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 30 percent by 2020, by 40 percent by 2025 and by at least 90 percent by 2050 (compared to the base year 1990). By achieving these goals, Hesse aims to [...]
2:15 Min. Published on 9.4.2017 Mission 2020 is a global campaign, blending radical collaboration and relentless optimism to put emissions on a downward path by 2020. When it comes to our climate, timing is everything, and we have a game-changing opportunity to make the big changes now. Let's not be [...]
With a new law, Paris calls on its residents to garden the public space. Wherever possible, vertical and horizontal gardens are to be created, urban agriculture is promoted. There is even a starter kit with planting soil. Among other things, 100 hectares of living facades and roofs are to be created by 2020. Links to read more: http://inhabitat.com/paris-allows-anyone-to-plant-an-urban-garden-anywhere/ [...]
Extreme weather events such as heat waves, heavy rain, floods and storms do not stop at property boundaries. That is why adapting to the consequences of climate change is an issue for everyone - both for politicians and administrators, who are responsible for protecting public space, and for every private owner and tenant. Task of [...]
New labelling mandatory from 1 April Since 1 April 2017, the EU energy efficiency label now also applies to wood heating systems such as pellet, woodchip and log heating systems. The energy efficiency class scale for wood heaters ranges from A++ to G, and from 26 September 2019 from A+++ to D. Pellet boilers are generally rated A+, [...]
Throughout Germany, the federal government has only granted four plots of land at a lower price so that social housing can be built. Yet it is authorised to do so and is actually required to do so. That the federal government does not take the responsibility for the housing supply in the width of the country very lightly, or at least does not use all its resources in the fight against the [...]
On 15 March, the Mayors' Dialogue "Sustainable City" developed impulses for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in German municipalities. The mayors focused on the contributions of municipalities to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable".
Federal Ministry for the Environment provides 2.4 million euros from the Climate Protection Fund The Senator for the Environment, Construction and Transport and Bremen University of Applied Sciences have jointly applied for funding in a competitive procedure in the "Federal Competition for Climate Protection in Cycling" of the National Climate Initiative (NKI) for a "Bicycle Model Quarter Alte Neustadt Bremen - from bicycle street to [...]
Many thanks to Johann Hartl for the photos of the "Neue Wege" housing project from 25 March 2017. The Augsburg model project for multi-generational living in cost-effective timber construction was completed in 2000. Click here for more information: http://sdg21.eu/db/wohnprojekt-neue-wege
Since February 2017, the houses of Chiemgauer Holzhaus have been able to distinguish themselves with the RAL quality mark GZ 425. This is because the solid wood houses achieve a GWP (Global Warming Potential) value of less than zero in their carbon footprint. This has been tested by the "Gütegemeinschaft CO2 neutrale Bauwerke in Holz e.V.". Taking into account all the necessary materials, such as [...]
"How do we want to live in our city and in our neighbourhood? We asked ourselves these questions at the planning workshop "Viva Werkstatt". The aim was to collect ideas for the careful development of the Viktoriaviertel. The neighbourhood should become lively again and the urban areas should be converted for the common good. Among the over [...]
Das Bündnis Reichtum Umverteilen setzt im Wahljahr 2017 auf soziale Gerechtigkeit und startet pünktlich zum Bundestagswahlkampf die Kampagne „Reichtum umverteilen – ein gerechtes Land für alle!“. Insgesamt 30 Organisationen, von Gewerkschaften über Wohlfahrts- und Jugendverbände bis hin zu Migranten- und Umweltorganisationen, haben sich im Bündnis zusammengeschlossen, das heute in der […]
Although www.siedlungen.eu is self-explanatory in the German-speaking world, it is somewhat unwieldy in normal language usage. For this reason, the abbreviation "sdg21" has also been used since February 2017. It is formed from the acronym for "sustainable development goals", the number stands for the 21st century. The Sustainable Development Goals 2030 were adopted in September [...]
"While cars are getting heavier and heavier and the farewell to the diesel engine is not succeeding, electric vehicles on two and three wheels have moved into the fast lane. The Zweirad-Industrie-Verband (ZIV) also published a market estimate for electrically powered cargo bikes for the first time in addition to its sales figures for 2016 presented in March. Berlin-based cargo bike expert Arne Behrensen [...]
Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl is in demand worldwide as a source of inspiration for urban redevelopment. He explains what Stuttgart can do in the face of increasing traffic and environmental problems and why he thinks nothing of self-driving cars.
In November of last year, the real estate industry associations put their participation in the Alliance for Affordable Housing and Construction on hold. To the PM from 15.3.2017: www.bmub.bund.de/pressemitteilung/alle-partner-im-buendnis-fuer-bezahlbares-wohnen-und-bauen-setzen-zusammenarbeit-fort
Gartenstadt21 is characterised by communal organisational and financing models that ensure its development and long-term maintenance Gartenstadt21 enables adaptable and sustainable models of general involvement and participation to be developed and made permanent Gartenstadt21 brings about a qualification and networking of existing settlement and open space structures in the metropolitan region Gartenstadt21 has [...]
Within the framework of a VHS theme series, interested parties can discuss the further development of the former barracks area this coming Saturday. The event series "Stadtgestaltung im Dialog" (Urban Design in Dialogue) wants to encourage citizens to think about the design of concrete areas and buildings in Bonn and to influence their future development. On Saturday, the 25th [...]
The share of renewable energies in total energy consumption in the EU was 16.7 percent in 2015. That is almost twice as much as a decade earlier. Compared with the previous year, the share rose by 0.6 percentage points, the statistics authority Eurostat announced on Tuesday. In 2004, when data first became available, the [...]
The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) are supporting municipalities that want to use new approaches to activate more unused land for housing construction. To this end, the cities are employing inner development managers and expanding active inner development with various building blocks. The model projects in Aalen, Berlin, Hamburg-Altona, Ludwigsfelde, Offenburg, Regensburg, Solingen and [...]
