"Walden 48" is the winner of the HolzbauPlus 2020 competition in the category "Residential multi-family building new construction".
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This building group project with 43 residential units, some of them as maisonettes, was realized as a timber hybrid building and exemplifies the qualities of timber construction in a dense urban context.
OWNER: Walden 48 GbR, c/o Mauer Bauprojektmanagement
PROJECT: Walden 48, 10249 Berlin
ARCHITECT: ARGE Scharabi | Raupach
CONSTRUCTION: Bulkhead solid wood construction (CLT) and wooden panel construction
INSULATION: wood fibre and others
On 1 and 2 June 2018 in Berlin
Venue: Kalkscheune Berlin, Johannisstraße 2, 10117 Berlin
The demands placed on cities and regions as places of work are changing as a result of ongoing economic structural change. Following industrialisation and tertiarisation, digitalisation is bringing new profound changes to the world of work and thus new challenges for urban development planning and social coexistence. At the 6th National Urban Development Policy University Day, both the changes in the world of work and the challenges for urban development planning will be identified and discussed in presentations and forums. The professional exchange can be further deepened at the evening reception on 1 June 2018.
There will be the following topic-specific forums:
Forum A: Mixed, inner-city neighbourhoods
Forum B: New neighbourhoods
Forum C: City centre and centres
Forum D: Urban region
Forum E: Rural areas and small towns
Forum F: From industrial estate to productive urban neighbourhood 24/7
Programme, participation and registration Participation is free of charge. Preliminary information on the programme and the opportunity to register can be found at here.
Representatives of the environmental associations give their views on the Federal Government's climate package at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin, including Kai Niebert (President of Deutscher Naturschutzring), Hubert Weiger (Chairman of Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V.), Martin Kaiser (Managing Director of Greenpeace Deutschland), Silvie Kreibiehl (Chairwoman of the Board of Germanwatch), Michael Schäfer (Head of Climate and Energy WWF), Sascha Müller-Kraenner (Managing Director of Deutsche Umwelthilfe) and Christoph Heinrich (Director of Nature Conservation WWF).
Important impetus for electric mobility in Germany
Bonn/Cologne, 14 June 2017
The new vehicle type is based on a Ford Transit chassis, which is equipped with a battery-electric drivetrain and a body structure in accordance with Post and DHL Paket specifications. Image: Deutsche Post DHL Group
StreetScooter GmbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post, and Ford-Werke GmbH are entering into a partnership to build battery-powered delivery vehicles. After Deutsche Post has already made its mark on the market for smaller vans with the emission-free StreetScooter, which it developed and built itself, the partnership is now moving on to a larger vehicle type: the basis is a Ford Transit chassis, which is equipped with a battery-electric drivetrain and a bodywork according to the specifications of Deutsche Post and DHL Paket.
Production will start in July 2017 and at least 2,500 units will be deployed in Deutsche Post DHL Group's inner-city delivery operations by the end of 2018. This volume will make the joint project the largest producer of battery-electric medium-duty delivery vehicles in Europe.
Both companies, Deutsche Post DHL Group and Ford, share the same goal of helping to shape the mobility of the future by reducing emissions and developing new transport solutions. This partnership is a concrete and important step towards achieving these goals.
"I see this partnership as another important boost for electromobility in Germany," says Jürgen Gerdes, Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post AG. "This step underlines Deutsche Post's innovation leadership, will relieve the burden on city centres and improve people's quality of life. We are continuing to work on a completely CO2-neutral Logistics!“
"Electromobility and innovative transport solutions for urban areas are at the centre of our efforts to align our business with the requirements of the future," says Steven Armstrong, Group Vice President and President Europe, Middle East and Africa, Ford Motor Company. "For us as the market leader in the commercial vehicle segment in Europe, this partnership is the perfect complement to our plans. With StreetScooter and the Deutsche Post DHL Group, we have a partner with enormous expertise and a global network."
In addition to the new production line, production of the existing StreetScooter models will be significantly expanded, as already announced: StreetScooter GmbH plans to produce up to 20,000 units of its successful smaller e-delivery vehicle in different variants each year in Aachen and at a future additional production site in North Rhine-Westphalia. More than 2,500 StreetScooters are already in use throughout Germany for Deutsche Post. In addition, more and more external interested parties are registering demand or have already taken delivery of StreetScooters to convert their vehicle fleets to emission-free operation.
Source: Deutsche Post DHL Group press release dated 14 June 2017
Since 2012, the DGNB certification system has been a tool for municipalities that helps them to optimise neighbourhoods in terms of sustainability and to document this through an award. For this system, the DGNB has now specifically further developed the criteria catalogue and significantly reduced the scope through adjustments. According to the DGNB in its press release, this would reduce the effort and costs for building owners "without compromising on quality". New in the updated system version are topics such as light pollution, smart infrastructure, governance, resilience and adaptability.
The revision of the criteria that has now taken place relates to the use profiles for urban districts and commercial districts. The restructuring and the significant reduction in scope from 46 to 30 criteria are the result of a targeted process in which a large number of experts from the DGNB network were involved.
The innovations in detail
In terms of content, numerous adjustments were made. For example, the criterion "social and functional mix" - a core issue of sustainable neighbourhood development - was given a stronger weighting. On the other hand, some topics that previously had only a minimal influence on the overall assessment were dropped. These include, for example, the criteria "art in construction" or "building site/construction process". Numerous other criteria were combined with related topics.
Four criteria were newly integrated or fundamentally revised. The criterion "Emissions / Immissions", which was previously called "Noise and Sound Protection", was expanded to include the topics of air quality and light pollution. The criterion "governance" aims to create structures in the planning stage that will endure after the realisation of the neighbourhood. The entirely new criterion of "resilience and adaptability" aims to promote neighbourhood development that implies the highest possible flexibility and resilience to possible disruptive events. The "Smart Infrastructure" criterion has been greatly expanded in its approach. This includes, among other things, the question of the extent to which digitalisation is fundamentally integrated into neighbourhood planning and what infrastructural prerequisites there are for this - in the buildings and the open spaces alike. This criterion, which takes into account the topic of "smart cities", was deliberately formulated in an open manner, as there is currently a great deal of technological movement in this area.
In order to ensure the international applicability of the DGNB system for neighbourhoods, the content of some criteria was expanded. This applies, for example, to the criterion "environmental risks", in which internationally relevant risks such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or tsunamis were added in addition to the environmental hazards that frequently occur in Germany, such as storms or floods.
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Since 2012, the DGNB certification system has been a tool for municipalities that helps them to optimise neighbourhoods in terms of sustainability and to document this through an award. For this system, the DGNB has now specifically further developed the criteria catalogue and significantly reduced the scope through adjustments. According to the DGNB in its press release, this would reduce the effort and costs for building owners "without compromising on quality". New in the updated system version are topics such as light pollution, smart infrastructure, governance, resilience and adaptability.
