Funding topic 4: Climate and resource-friendly construction

Achieving the goal of energy- and resource-efficient construction for a climate-neutral and health-friendly building stock by 2050 will require diverse and interconnected strategies in the building sector. In addition to the exemplary development of the potential of energy-optimized building stock and environmentally compatible urban densification, sustainable concepts and technological approaches are to be developed and tested in new construction as the primary innovation driver. Since the increased use of wood as a renewable resource can provide leverage for improving resource efficiency, the development of large building volumes for wood construction will also be considered.

The funding focuses in particular on holistic optimization within an integral planning phase and target group-specific dissemination of results. The various aspects of sustainable building should be included, implemented, evaluated, documented and communicated in innovative educational measures as comprehensively as possible in model projects with high design quality.

Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to:

• model concept development, innovative components of implementation, and the evaluation and documentation of energy- and resource-optimized, healthy old and new buildings, taking into account the entire life cycle;
• The exemplary development and implementation, for example, of concepts for improving indoor air quality, passive air conditioning, plus-energy and CO2-neutral buildings, minimizing gray energy, emissions and immissions, sufficiency, as well as their evaluation and documentation;
• the further development, exemplary implementation and documentation of timber construction in larger building volumes;
• the optimization of concepts, systems and constructions in timber construction as well as the increase of the acceptance of timber constructions;
• the optimization of closed-loop recycling and recycling options in building construction and building materials/products, as well as developments in lightweight construction to improve resource efficiency;
• The further development of planning methodology, process quality and tools, including through the use of digitalization, as an optimization strategy for sustainable and health-friendly planning, construction and operation of buildings, as well as their target-group-specific dissemination;
• innovative methods and concepts for education, communication, participation and qualification, especially of public and private builders, planning offices, approval authorities, building professions as well as users;
• Measures to communicate building ecology to children, young people and trainees as well as
• The development and testing of new participation formats in the planning and implementation of sustainable public building projects (e.g. school buildings, sports facilities, leisure facilities, etc.).

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