Sustainability: Building

We lack a culture of open discussion and responsible thinking and acting for sustainable building. Rainer Hascher, university professor and architect, in an interview.More ...

Today, no one can afford not to care about sustainability, climate protection or energy efficiency. By the year 2020 there is to be a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the 1990 levels.More ...

Anne Heringer is just embarking on a career as an architect, but she has already achieved international recognition and respect.More ...

The future of dwelling is alive. That is the belief of three architects from Stuttgart who are banking on a completely new building support structure: plants firmly rooted in the soil. More ...

In contrast to these, the German Society for Sustainable Building (Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für nachhaltiges Bauen / DGNB) wanted to extend evaluation beyond merely the criterion of environmental compatibility. More ...

Planning for climate change, construction in times of rising energy prices, environmentally-compatible living close to one’s workplace – the need for ecological urban planning today is undisputed.More ...

Sustainable construction involves more than effective insulation and the use of alternative energy sources.More ...

When one wishes to build ecologically and sustainably, attention focuses on building with wood.More ...

An almost ordinary apartment building in the midst of a Berlin tenement district has become an absolute hit – because eco-friendly timber-frame buildings are all the rage.More ...

For the last five decades German researchers and designers have clearly been pioneers in this field.More ...

The Sonnenschiff (Solar Ship) in Freiburg is a pioneer project in "green" construction. It is the brainchild of architect Rolf Disch, one of Germany's leading exponents of environmentally responsible building.More ...

The days when ecological construction meant building wooden huts are long gone.More ...