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These and other questions were discussed by our public relations officer Lewin Fricke in the German Bundestag on March 24, 2022. He accepted the invitation of the two members of the Bundestag Niklas Wagener MdB and Tessa Ganserer MdB, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, to explain the advantages of building with calamity wood together with their scientific staff. Forestry topics in focus In the office of Niklas Wagener MdB, forest policy spokesman for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Lewin Fricke exchanged views with his scientific assistant Lorenz Berger. The focus was particularly on forestry aspects. Together, the discussion partners came to the conclusion that it is important to sensibly transfer wood from calamities into high-yield value chains. At the same time, it is important not to neglect to renaturalize the damaged areas in the stands under the aspects of environment, climate and animal protection. This idea is in line with our internal guidelines and reflects the basic principles of our TRIQBRIQ business model. Timber construction cannot function without sustainable forest conversion. Need for optimization of the GEG and the KrWG At the second meeting, Lewin Fricke talked to Tessa Ganserer MdB. She is a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (PBnE) for her parliamentary group Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. As a qualified forestry expert, Ganserer is a proven expert on all topics relating to forests and their economic use. In her function as chairwoman of the PBnE, Ms. Ganserer was not only interested in forestry issues, but also in questions concerning possible optimization potentials in the Building Energy Act (GEG) and the Closed Substance Cycle Waste Management Act (KrWG). Lewin Fricke emphasized in particular the points that could be improved from the point of view of a construction start-up. Tessa Ganserer MdB, Copyright: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen im Bundestag, Kaminski New Bundestag building: built with climate protection in mind In line with the topics of the meetings, both appointments took place in the new Bundestag building »Luisenblock West«. You can’t see it from the outside of the new building in the government district, but it is actually made of wood. »In the context of various events, I have already heard presentations about this exciting construction project. I am very pleased that the Bundestag administration has decided to have this innovative project built using an absolutely efficient modular timber construction method,« says Lewin Fricke about the building, which was completed in record time. German Parliament building Luisenblock West As a manufacturer of a timber construction system, we are of course very pleased that these exciting appointments took place in a timber building. We would like to thank the political representatives for their time and are confident that politics will find a healthy mix of »promoting and demanding« in the coming years and support circular material innovations and their scaling along the way.
Vonovia and the Fraunhofer Alliance hosted the kick-off conference ≫Perspectives on the Future of Building≪ at the Design Offices in Berlin on 23.03.22. Representatives from politics, science and the construction industry – including our Head of Public Relations Lewin Fricke – discussed the perspectives on the future of building. The conference marks the start of a dialogue and work process on sustainable building that will become even more concrete over the next few months. On 23 November 2022, the final results will be presented at the Futurium Berlin. Keynote speeches from politics and science The event started with keynote speeches by Min.- Dirig. Lothar Fehn Krestas (BMWSB) and Prof. Dr. Torsten Zuberbier (Charité). The politician stated that we must ≫think in terms of lifecycles≪ when producing building materials and buildings, and that grey emissions are becoming a focus for legislators, particularly in perspective of future funding programmes. One of the contributions from the scientific side was that health issues such as allergens will also play a more important role in the construction industry in the future. Vonovia initiates Innovation-Pitch The Chief Representative of Vonovia SE, Konstantina Kanellopoulos, used the event to initiate an innovation pitch in which startups and established players from the construction and housing industry will have the opportunity to present their innovative strength in a pitch on 18 May 2022. We are of course joining in and invite all other thought in the construction industry to also sign up under the following link: For registration Four workshops and one goal The presentations were followed by four simultaneous workshops on the topics of ≫Production of Building Materials≪, ≫Renewable Resources≪, ≫Circular Economy≪ and ≫Supply Chains and Logistics≪. Lewin Fricke was of course involved in the topic of the production of building materials and explained the advantages of cicular timber construction based on calamity wood. The combined results of the individual workshops were then presented to all participants by Vonovia employees in a subsequent panel discussion. The most important common point here is certainly the goal that we need a climate-neutral construction sector and building stock by 2045. With this goal and the upcoming workshop dates in mind, the moderator Kerstin Pettenkofer dismissed the guests into the Berlin afternoon sun.
Our vision is a profound change in the construction industry towards holistic sustainable building and living. This month, our CEO Max Wörner, TRIQBRIQ inventor Werner Grosse and our Head of PR & PA Lewin Fricke were guests at Heuer Dialog GmbH events twice to present our innovation TRIQBRIQ and our ideas for achieving climate goals. Heuer Dialog: Jahreskongress Quartier On September 16 and 17, 2021, the first “Quartier Annual Congress“ of Heuer Dialog GmbH took place in Bielefeld. The topic of the event, which will be held annually from now on, was “Beyond the borders – a new asset class is in the starting blocks“. In a hybrid presentation (online and analog), our Head of Public Affairs & Public Relations, Lewin Fricke, introduced our pilot project in Stuttgart-Feuerbach and explained the extent to which innovative building projects can serve as models for entire neighborhoods. In particular, he focused his presentation on our patented TRIQBRIQ timber construction system. Afterwards, he was available to answer questions from the approximately 70 members of the audience. Lewin Fricke was accompanied by TRIQBRIQ inventor Werner Grosse. He provided the congress guests with further information at an exhibition stand made up of TRIQBRIQs. Heuer Dialog: 13. Immobilien Dialog Region Stuttgart On 21.09.2021, our Managing Director, Max Wörner, took part in the “13. Immobilien Dialog Region Stuttgart” organized by Heuer Dialog GmbH. In a panel discussion on the topic “In check: Innovative building materials – together we can do more“, Max Wörner explained what really matters when it comes to innovative building materials and what role our TRIQBRIQ will play in sustainable construction in the future. In keeping with the title of the event, the podium featured other high-profile figures from the construction industry. The Managing Director of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), Dr. Christine Lemaitre, moderated the panel and guided Walter Feeß, winner of the German Environmental Award, Dr. Ulrich Klotz, CEO of Ed. Züblin AG, Oliver Wilm, Managing Director of Wolff & Müller Holding GmbH & Co. KG and Max Wörner through a really exciting discussion.
An association of sustainable construction start-ups, demands a massive change of direction in German housing and construction policy. On 21.09.2021 between 11:00 – 12:00 o’clock a press meeting took place on this topic. The initiative is supported by Architects for Future and the Association of German Architects (BDA). Currently, no political party offers a housing and construction policy program that can achieve the Paris climate goals. The construction and real estate sector causes about 36 % of CO2 emissions in the EU – and about 60 % of waste. The association has the common goal of significantly reducing emissions and waste in the construction and real estate sector through fast and concrete measures and to fundamentally change the processes and use of materials in construction. NOW – Bauwende jetzt! sees a lever, particularly in approval processes, in regulatory law, and in subsidy and tax policy, to introduce circular construction much more quickly, to promote the use of ecological materials, and also to advance flexible modular new buildings and serial renovations more quickly. Circular construction should already be considered during demolition. For example, Dominik Campanella, founder of the Concular platform, sees saving opportunities of up to 30 % in demolition costs and up to 50 % savings in construction emissions if circular planning is already in place before a project starts. Materials should be digitized accordingly in buildings and conveyed to new construction projects before the building is demolished. Wood construction system TRIQBRIQ: Building with nature In addition to circular material flows, ecological materials should also be used. The start-up Polycare completely eliminates the use of scarce construction sands and cement as a binder, paving the way to deconstructable and reusable architecture with their construction system. Or the start-up TRIQ, which develops projects with low-cost weak and damaged wood and uses standardized modular timber building blocks to make construction much more ecological without the use of artificial fasteners. A Paris-compliant construction industry should substitute petroleum-based materials completely, like the start-up carbonauten, which is developing biocarbons. Climate neutrality can only be scaled up if these concepts are serially planned and implemented: the start-up ecoworks is therefore renovating CO2-neutrally on an industrial scale by digitally and automatically planning and industrially prefabricating – and doing so with ecological materials and with a design focus. The start-up Urban Beta brings these concepts to modular new construction by implementing flexible, mobile usage concepts and sustainable material strategies in their circular space systems. This reimagined architecture on-demand is expandable, grows and adapts with its users and creates new circular business and financing models for the construction industry. The circularly planned Mobility Hub BetaPort is the first scalable building product with on-demand applications for transformable buildings. All start-ups and the supporters are united in their demands for massive adjustments to the regulatory framework: for example, approval processes for sustainable building materials and construction projects should be simplified and given priority, a uniform model conversion ordinance should be adopted for all German states, the digital building application should be made mandatory, and overall incentives for design quality and durability should be created. In order to establish the circular economy more quickly, the principle of causation should be promoted. In addition, the legally agreed renovation quota and depth of public buildings should finally be adhered to. The recently passed building efficiency decree, for example, is heading in the wrong direction with regard to the life cycle. Regulatory law should also be much stronger. We need minimum standards for the rentability of residential and commercial properties: Buildings that have G or F on their energy certificates should no longer be rented out from 2028 without neighborhood-specific compensatory measures. KfW programs should also be recast: Target CO2 should be inclusive of gray energy emissions, and the focus on building insulations should be reduced. In addition, programs that promote buildings that are not Paris-compliant should be stopped. Furthermore, subsidies for CO2-intensive materials should be reconsidered. Click here for the press conference Read press articles about the event here! Read article Read article Read article Read article Read article
“There are a lot of necessary tasks to manage a change towards more sustainability in the construction sector and we see ourselves as one of the solutions,” says Max Wörner, CEO of TRIQ GmbH, in an interview with Stylepark Magazine.
In addition, around 250 million tons of construction waste are generated in Germany alone, which corresponds to around 60 % of the national waste volume. But despite these devastating numbers there is little progress in politics. Max Wörner, CEO of TRIQBRIQ, comments on this problem: »We are running out of time and the construction sector is too slow.« Members of the German Bundestag Christian Kühn (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and Hagen Reinhold (FDP), the spatial planner Dr. Cecilia Braun, as well as Andreas Kunsmann (COO Polycare) and Max Wörner (CEO TRIQBRIQ) were present. Innovations fail due to approval processes Watch here! Together with our guests, we came to the conclusion that fundamental changes are necessary if the construction sector is to become climate-neutral by 2025. Circular pilot projects such as Polycare and TRIQBRIQ are crucial to achieve such a transformation in the value chain. But sustainable innovations often fail to gain approval. In this regard, Kunsmann and Wörner appealed for more openness in politics. However, politics also faces challenges: “We want to be innovative, but it doesn’t work because I can’t enforce it, neither with the customer nor with the authorities”, Hagen Reinhold (FDP) commented on the problem. Dr. Cecilia Braun also emphasized that there are enough ideas, but that implementation is a problem. Overall, we all agree on one thing: there must be a change. We hope for a positive development and thank all participants!
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