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Woodscraper – the circular wooden high-rise building Jörg Finkbeiner, Partner and Partner Architects, BerlinAndré Meyer, GLS Community Bank, Bochum.

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Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) invite you to “Environmental Week” on June 4th and 5th. The park at Bellevue Palace in Berlin will be transformed into a tent and stage city - with around 190 exhibitors as well as a stage and specialist forum program on current environmental topics and with well-known and high-ranking personalities from politics, society, business and science. Numerous clever ideas from all regions of Germany will be presented. You can read exactly what is behind it in our press releases for the respective federal states.

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On the panel with Federal Minister of Construction Geywitz at Environment Week

Conference “Building trade and building culture - climate-friendly quality through solution-oriented and design competence”

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On Monday, April 8th, the building permit was officially handed over at Wolfsburg City Hall by Mayor Dennis Weimann to the project owner, the socially-ecological GLS Bank. Construction of the Wolfsburg Woodscraper is scheduled to begin in May 2024.

Photo by Martin Steffen, GLS Bank

The GLS Bank press release

Further information: www.woodscraper.de

Our employees Mascha Creutz, Alena Jacobs and Maren Vetter have passed the DGNB exam as life cycle assessment experts and are now supporting our office as consultants.

The year 2023 was full of events...

Our new office building made of solid wood in Italy was nominated for the DAM (German Architecture Museum) Prize 2024. We are of course very happy and would like to thank the jury for recognizing our efforts in timber construction and sustainable building.

Laying of the foundation stone for the Volksbank branch in Aue

With a wooden hybrid building, Volksbank Chemnitz is clearly setting the course for its new, green self-image and confidently communicating this at the entrance to Aue in the Erzgebirge. An ecologically planned bank branch will be built at the entrance to the traditional mining town, which is easily accessible and shows an example of how building can become more climate-friendly in the future.

"The commercial district includes everything that is possible today in terms of honest sustainability and they combine the common good with ecological responsibility."

On May 9, 2023, the first transformation workshop on the topic of circular planning and construction took place with the Building Minister Ms. Geywitz in CRCLR House - Berlin. The transformation succeeds together!

Photo: Henning Schacht

The tallest wooden office building in South Tyrol "Headquarter Kostner Group"

Publication in the first 2023 edition of “HOLZBAU the new quadriga”. “Overall, this architectural concept for the new headquarters can be classified as very successful,” says author Kristin Kurczinski.

econo - The circular future

“There is a lot of demand for circular economy – and little practice. Unless the path leads to Brühl near Heidelberg, where the circular future in housing construction has already begun.”

We are on April 18th. with a contribution: The BMWSB invites you from April 17th. to the congress at BAU 2023 in Munich from April 18, 2023.

On the way to a climate-neutral building stock - sustainability strategy and federal funding for new buildings

On the occasion of BAU 2023 in Munich, the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction (BMWSB) is organizing a congress on April 17th and 18th, 2023. Together with experts from the construction and building materials industry, construction research, real estate industry and construction policy, current trends, challenges and solutions are discussed there. Under the motto “Building 2023 - what to do now!”, the congress is dedicated to the most important current topics across the entire value chain. The congress begins with a panel discussion with Federal Construction Minister Klara Geywitz on the topic: New planning, new construction - challenges of the construction transition. Other key topics include climate-friendly and resource-saving construction, the productivity potential of the construction industry and resource bottlenecks in construction with their causes, consequences and possible solutions. The second day of the congress will focus on current topics relating to the federal government's sustainability strategy and the BMWSB's new building funding.

We are pleased that our five-story solid wood building for the Kostner headquarters in South Tyrol is included in this year's DA! Exhibition and the yearbook were included. The exhibition DA! ARCHITECTURE IN AND FROM BERLIN shows 60 selected and exemplary solutions to current construction tasks from members of the Berlin Chamber of Architects: sustainable projects, buildings, open spaces and transformations all over the world.

The Scandinavian conference Build in Wood is coming to Hamburg! Wood as a sustainable building material raises several questions about sustainability and climate impact. How do we work with wood to achieve the climate goals of the future and how do we ensure sustainability?From January 25th to 26th, 2023, we welcome you to the first edition of the Build in Wood conference in Germany and invite you to meet with architects, engineers and planners. Together with knowledge partners, German and international experts, you will take part in two days with the latest findings, knowledge exchange, updates and important networking along the timber construction value chain.

Swiss Embassy in Berlin: Sustainable Architecture - Attempt at a Definition

Architects and urban planners are key sources of inspiration for driving forward sustainable development in planning and building. However, the challenges of ecological, economic, social and aesthetic change are so complex that sustainable construction can only be realized if all actors commit to a fundamental transformation. But how do you define sustainable architecture? Is there a consensus about the standards?

Discuss about:

Kerstin Müller Co-Managing Director of Circular GmbH, Basel

Dr. Oliver Martin Head of the Building Culture Section of the Federal Office of Culture, Bern

Jörg Finkbeiner Partner & Partner Architects, Berlin

Prof. Jens Ludloff Ludloff Ludloff Architects, Berlin and Chair of Sustainability, Building Construction and Design at the University of Stuttgart

Moderation: Dr. Anne SchmeddingIn cooperation with the Association of German Architects Berlin.

On the road with the Federal President

One of the two managing directors of Partner und Partner, Jörg Finkbeiner, is currently traveling as a special guest on the Federal President's state visit to Sweden. It is striking how seriously people in Sweden take the issues of climate protection, future technologies and timber construction. At lunch yesterday in Stockholm City Hall, Crown Princess Victoria was very interested in a conversation with Jörg Finkbeiner. Yesterday afternoon Finkbeiner visited Sweden's King Carl XVI together with the Federal President. Gustaf and the Swedish Minister of Culture the current exhibition at the architecture and design center ArkDes, which focuses primarily on wooden construction. From there, the tour group virtually followed the inauguration of the “Sara Cultural Center” in Skellefteå, the tallest wooden building in Europe. Finally, Jörg Finkbeiner was able to give a speech to discuss how sustainable and socially just construction can work in the future. Finally, Finkbeiner travels today to the northernmost city in Sweden, Kiruna. ©Federal Government / Photographer Guido Bergmann