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Study: Hamburg builds energy-saving houses cost-neutrally

In a study of new residential construction in the Hanseatic city, the Institute for Research and Consulting for Housing, Real Estate and the Environment (F+B) comes to the conclusion that energy requirements such as overall energy efficiency or energy efficiency in Hamburg do not make building more expensive.

The authors of the study examined the key cost factors, focusing on building-specific parameters such as project size and compactness on the one hand and building efficiency parameters on the other.
It cannot be determined that construction costs decrease with increasing project size. Although they are lowest on average for projects with more than 3,500 square metres of living space, they are highest for medium-sized projects. The median, i.e. the central value, was taken into account. The study also found that costs vary most for small projects. And there are no cost advantages in building "blocks", i.e. buildings that are as compact as possible.

The press release of the City of Hamburg:
www.hamburg.de/nachhaltiges-bauen/6943798/baukostenanalyse/

Read the complete article from 10.11.2016 on:
www.enbausa.de/...studie-hamburg...


Keywords: Construction and operating costs, DE-News, News Blog Hamburg
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