Nachhaltigkeit von neu errichteten Wohngebäuden - Wege zur Beschreibung und Bewertung

Sustainability of new residential buildings — ways to a description and quantification.

For some time the description and certification of sustainability of buildings is an intensive discussed topic in the professional community. There is a clear trend for making qualities measurable and communicable to the public. This is demanded by the policy also. The housing sector as the quantitative most important part of civil engineering wants not to reject to complex certification systems. For residential buildings, however, significant differences to office buildings must be taken into account. Housing is the center of human life. The social dimension of housing, the housing quality and the affordability of housing have essential social significance. Housing has an economic, environmental and social dimension. Therefore the housing industry, together with other associations and the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, and under scientific supervision, is working on possibilities for describing and quanti fying the sustainability of new residential buildings in accordance with the specifics of housing.