The Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of the Environment has announced a subsidy program for electricity storage for photovoltaic roof systems. Private individuals, companies and tenant electricity models will be reimbursed 30 percent of the expenses.
Cooperatives and building communities promise affordable and sociable living. But what is everyday life like there?
Read more on the website of the South German Newspaper
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Stakeholders, Cohousing, DE-News, eG
The aim is to redesign a 100% CO2-neutral neighbourhood.
To this end, a first building complex with approx. 25 buildings (113 residential units) and approx. 10 commercial units is to be converted in a climate-neutral manner between 2016 and 2018 and a first representative microgrid is to be developed in the quarter. In addition to office units, there will also be restaurants, workshops and a municipal gymnasium. So to speak "normal life", as one finds in most building complexes of this kind. In addition to the approx. 250 residents, approx. 80 employees as well as employers and house owners must be involved in the transformation process.
In addition to the energy supply, we want to develop new sustainable mobility options for people. The aim is to achieve more flexible, cost-effective and environmentally friendly mobility through the increased use of shared infrastructure in conjunction with sharing systems and the additional use of electric vehicles as temporary energy storage units.
The aim is to make this pilot ready for swarming after realisation in 2018 and a further year of test operation and to transfer it to the entire district in the years 2020 to 2030, thus creating the blueprint for a transformation in Wuppertal.
Project website:
www.aufbruch-am-arrenberg.de/site/home/klimaquartier/news/
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Stock, CO2-neutral, Movies, Movies < 4 Min, News Blog NRW, PV, Quarters, urban gardening
No stopping, no weaving through, no suddenly opened car doors: With the expansion of motorways for bicycles only, Norway's government wants to create an incentive to take the bike more often.
Norway's goal: less harmful emissions, and soon. Pollutant emissions from traffic and transport are to be reduced by as much as 50 per cent. For car traffic in the city, this means: It should not grow any further without restricting the mobility of citizens. In this context, the Norwegian government speaks of a "zero-growth" target.
Link to the article from (unfortunately no longer online; as of 10/2020):
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Bike-/Velo-City, News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog Norway
In its meeting on 26 May 2020, the Rhineland-Palatinate Council of Ministers approved in principle a draft bill to amend, among other things, the Rhineland-Palatinate Building Code. The amendment of the state building code is intended to implement changes to the so-called model building code that have already been adopted or are in preparation.
The amendments to the State Building Code relate in particular to facilitations for building with wood, which the construction ministers of the federal states agreed on at the last Construction Ministers' Conference, according to the official Press release. "I very much welcome the expansion of the possible applications for wood as a material. Wood is a particularly sustainable, environmentally friendly building material that plays an important role in achieving national and international climate protection goals. Moreover, wood is extremely versatile. Components can be produced for all areas of application, and there are particular advantages, for example, for serial construction as well as for conversion and extension measures. Last but not least, wood often enables cost-effective construction and promotes regional forestry, especially in Rhineland-Palatinate. In Rhineland-Palatinate there are many successful, exemplary projects in timber construction," explained Construction Minister Doris Ahnen.
With the amendment of the State Building Code, the use of timber components in taller buildings (especially multi-storey residential buildings) is now to be made possible under certain conditions. Accordingly, wood can be used as a building material for buildings up to a height of 22 metres; previously the limit was 13 metres.
The draft law now goes into the participation and consultation procedure.
Source: PM from Holzbau Deutschland dated 27.5.2020
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DE-News, Wood construction, News Blog RLP, Settlements, Environmental policy, Housing, Housing policy
