Settlements & neighbourhoods

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Study Economy of Ecological Housing (2023 - 2025)

An economic efficiency analysis of sustainable neighbourhoods and settlements from the year 2000 onwards

Duration: July 2023 until Feb 2025
Az. 10.08.18.7-23.20

In cooperation with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Rid, Managing Director of the Institute for Climate Neutral Urban and Regional Development (ikre) www.i-kre.de, Erfurt, Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Applied Sciences Erfurt

HolzWohnBau Construction Cost Study (HWB) 2021/2022

Results of the research study "Settlements and urban quarters in timber construction. Germany compared to neighbouring European countries: standards, construction costs and implementation recommendations". Duration: January 2021 to December 2022. Financed with funds from the Zukunft Bau funding programme of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs.

Study "Life cycle assessment of settlements" (2002 I diploma thesis)

Diploma thesis by Holger Wolpensinger at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 2002
First examiner: Prof. Dr. Niklaus Kohler ifib - Institute for Industrial Construction Production

Brief description

A housing development design with 140 flats (see www.sdg21.eu/db/autofreie-solarsiedlung-nancystrasse) for 420 inhabitants is examined for the relevant environmental impacts and their reduction potentials using the indicators GWP 100 (Global Warming Potential in 100 years) and primary energy in the standard/best-case and worst-case variants.