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
Editors of the Gebäude Energieberater and the Glaswelt organize a specialist forum: Presentation of the holistic, sustainable pilot project by TRIQ-GmbH Boris Palmer, mayor of Tübingen gives a keynote speech At the digital specialist forum “Building Envelope in Focus” on March 9th, 2021, you can get information on the important developments in sustainable building from prominent experts. The event is organized and carried out by the editors of the Gebäude Energieberater and the Glaswelt. TRIQ GmbH is also there with its pilot housing project in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. Choose two out of five Part of the program is the presentation of two projects with an interesting building envelope by Claudia Siegele, editor of the GEB. There were five very different buildings to choose from. In addition to various renovation and new construction projects, the TRIQ pilot project was also able to prevail against the prominent Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Together with the energy self-sufficient multi-family house of the Lübben housing company, the object with its TRIQBRIQ timber construction system is the focus of the presentation. We invite you to this exciting event and would like to point out that the presentation of TRIQ GmbH is expected around 5:50 p.m. Click here to watch the presentation!
The TRIQ pilot project in Stuttgart-Feuerbach combines resource-saving construction with future-oriented living concepts. An environmentally friendly apartment building that integrates sustainability into all areas of everyday life is to be built on a property of almost 700 square meters. 100% recyclable buildings with TRIQBRIQ 100% recyclable materials are used in the construction of the building – concrete and cement are consistently avoided. Instead, the pilot project relies on the specially developed and patented TRIQBRIQ timber construction system for shell construction. Regional damaged and storm wood is used for TRIQBRIQs, which saves long transport routes, costs, and CO2. We currently want to realize the first fully sustainable residential building in Germany. To do this, we check all building materials for their recyclability and CO2 balance and completely do without cement and concrete. Instead, we rely on TRIQBRIQS as a climate-neutral alternative. Max Wörner – Founder and CEO of TRIQ GMBH A responsible and sustainable energy supply also adds to the protection of the climate. Photovoltaic systems and innovative hydrogen technologies create a completely energy self-sufficient and climate-neutral building. In addition, TRIQ establishes a closed water cycle management system: rainwater is collected and processed into service water in a filter system. Every household produces its own drinking water with the help of a reverse osmosis system. The gray water used is then converted back into service water. Therefore, the water cycle of nature is optimally used for everyday needs. Comprehensive living concepts support the residents in living more sustainably. At TRIQ, the community is very important: Various sharing offers, such as the shared use of e-cars and e-bikes, are provided. TRIQ also offers a communal garden. With the help of regional gardeners, they produce their own food. In addition, there will be home deliveries with regional and healthy products, which will support local farmers. With its well-thought-out concept, TRIQ is the first holistically sustainable residential project in Germany. With a focus on the TRIQBRIQ timber construction system, climate targets can also be achieved in the construction sector. More about the TRIQ Pilot Project
Presentation of the TRIQBRIQ solid wood construction system and exchange about general building policy conditions. Last Tuesday, TRIQ GmbH was invited as a digital guest in the German Bundestag. Max Wörner, founder and CEO of TRIQ GmbH as well as Lewin Fricke, head of public relations were invited to present their holistic sustainable housing concept to the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (PBnE). The core element of the concept is the specially developed TRIQBRIQ wood construction system. The system allows the use of damaged and storm wood as a building material and thus is a very climate-friendly building material. TRIQBRIQ campaigns for sustainable building in the Bundestag This was followed by a discussion on the general regulations that are currently making sustainable building even more difficult. TRIQ GmbH requests that the Building Energy Act (GEG), which recently came into force, should be adjusted, particularly in regard to the life cycle analyzes of buildings. The energy consumed and the emissions emitted (gray energy / gray emissions) in the manufacture of building materials and buildings must be taken into account in the legislation. Above all, it is impossible to understand why concrete and cement are still politically considered harmless building materials. After all, the production of cement alone accounts for around 6-8 % of global CO2 emissions. In comparison, the TRIQBRIQ construction system binds CO2 and thus makes an active contribution to climate protection, added Wörner. The parliamentarians noted that the GEG has to take the construction phase of buildings into account. Kai Whittaker, a member of the Bundestag and chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the PBnE, moderated the digital session. He suggested that named aspects should also be transferred to the municipal level to further promote sustainability in the construction sector, for example in the form of pilot projects. About TRIQ GmbH TRIQ GmbH stands for holistic and sustainable building and living. It is the company’s goal to literally unite ecology, economy, and socio-culture under one roof. Therefore, TRIQ GmbH relies 100 % on recyclable materials in the construction of its buildings and consistently does without concrete and cement. The core element of this construction method is the specially developed and patented timber construction system TRIQBRIQ. This system makes it possible to use damaged and storm wood as a building material and thus is a climate-friendly material. In combination with electricity from photovoltaic systems and innovative hydrogen technology, energy self-sufficient and climate-neutral buildings are created. Following the construction process, TRIQ GmbH establishes living concepts that use a circular economy and digital monitoring to support residents in living more sustainably and in a more environmentally friendly way. More about TRIQ GmbH
