Can subdivisions of functions in the Concept of Central Places - so called intermunicipal alliances - and other forms of regional cooperation be used to ensure the services of general interest in shrinking regions? The practical experience study makes recommendations …
Programme: Development of Eastern Germany
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2006 – November 2007
The implementation of the EU Construction Products Directive affects essential fields of activity of the German construction sector. With the harmonisation of the technical regulations having made significant progress in Europe by now, the task of the research project …
Programme: Future Building
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2006 – November 2007
The federal government put the simplification of the award procedure down in writing in its coalition agreement. But how much time and money do businesses and administration spend on tender, proposal and bit appraisal for construction works?Project duration: April 2007 …
Programme: Future Building
Status: Completed
Project duration:
April 2007 – November 2007
Content of the project was the preparation of the European standardization activities with regard to the inspection of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems. Inspections are requested by the European Building Performance Directive.Project duration: October …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
October 2006 – November 2007
Energy certificates have been prepared for selected Berlin government buildings according to the stipulations of the expected national ordinance EnEV 2007, and first experiences gathered for complex non-residential buildings. With that the model function of the public …
Programme: General Departmental Research
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2005 – November 2007
In the research project the methodological framework for the compilation of a consistent database was developed. The system of the data supply includes that the responsibility for data supply remains with the manufacturer, but the specific requirements for computation …
Programme: Future Building
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2006 – November 2007
The research project compiled an overall system for sustainable construction. In this overall system, it was shown the connection of planning and evaluation tools on the basis of examples.Project duration: November 2006 – November 2007
Programme: Future Building
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2006 – November 2007
Topic of the research project was the development of a scientific concept for a national certification system for the sustainability of buildings. Challenge in this context was, beside the simultaneous and equivalent consideration of all criteria relevant for the rating …
Programme: Future Building
Status: Completed
Project duration:
November 2006 – November 2007
In official statistics, data on the scope and structure of Germany’s construction sector is incomplete. To close this information gap, DIW Berlin developed an extensive rating model. On this basis, the activities of the construction sector are comprehensively described …
Programme: Future Building
Status: Ongoing
Started:
Since January 2008
City centres are a place where people meet, exchange, and identify, a centre of reference and an expression of a lively and forward-looking society. That is why city centres that have lost their function have to be stabilised and filled with new life. Against this …
Programme: ExWoSt
Status: Completed
Project duration:
July 2005 – October 2007
