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Green light for the heating transition! The noventic Magazine offers a regular array of in-depth, up-to-date content dealing with all aspects of the climate-intelligent design of our future.

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Article

Climate protection in buildings: using sustainability as a driver of innovation

Sustainability involves much more than just maintaining the status quo. It can also be a key driver of innovation. One sector that could benefit from that is real estate: if the industry is to achieve the goal of virtual climate neutrality by 2045, it must rapidly undergo fundamental transformation.

5 min

26/07/2023

Article

Smart Thermostats: Initial Landlord Experiences

Smart thermostats promise significant energy savings without compromising the comfort of residents. A member of the cooperative board, whose properties are part of the noventic group's lighthouse project, shares his hopes, experiences and initial results.

Thomas Ahlborn

8 min

02/06/2023

Background

Milestone: noventic group publishes second DNK Report

The noventic group's second DNK Report is now available. Once again, all departments involved and the Group's CSR Committee worked closely together to produce a wide-ranging report on the 2021/22 financial year complying with the standards of the German Sustainability Code (Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitskodex - DNK). We have had the formal completeness of the report checked and certified by the Office of the German Sustainability Code (Büro Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitskodex).

Nelly Bubenheim

5 min

14/08/2023

Interview

Energy savings target of 22 per cent

This year the issue of energy saving has taken on a new relevance among the wider public. Whereas in previous years one generally had the feeling that climate protection requirements were a tiresome duty that had to be performed, this year it is different: Triggered by Russiaʼs war in Ukraine and the associated supply and energy crisis, the issue has clearly gained traction.

Nelly Bubenheim

4 min

17/01/2023

Technology & Innovation

Climate-friendly home living

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has sounded the alarm: the 1.5-degree target will be missed without more resolute action by the international community. There is no shortage of ambitious targets, with Germany aiming to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 65 per cent by 2030.

Thomas Ahlborn

6 min

21/04/2023

Meinungsbeitrag · Lesezeit 3 Min.

The status quo cannot continue: climate protection in apartment buildings must get smart!

Faced with rising rents and the current high energy prices, it is only a matter of time before the debate about limits in residential housing climate protection comes to a head. Clearly climate protection does not come for free. However, often this quickly gives way to the question of who is going to pay for it. The debate over whether tenants or landlords should pay the additional costs is understandable, but fails to get to the heart of the matter. This is also shown by the findings of a recent tenant study conducted for us by Professor Pfnür of Darmstadt Technical University.

3 min

19/11/2021

Background

Article

Carbon pricing and CO₂ cost allocation in the buildings sector: the Carbon Dioxide Cost Sharing Act

The discussion to introduce CO2 pricing for the building sector in Germany ran for several years at specialist level before politicians took up the idea and put it into practice. The German government's "Climate Protection Program 2030 for the Implementation of the Climate Protection Plan" stipulates that Germany should emit 55 percent fewer greenhouse gases by 2030. To achieve this, CO2 emissions are to be reduced across all sectors. Various laws are paving the way for this, such as the CO2 Cost Sharing Act, which is the focus of the following section.

Thies Grothe

6 min

31/08/2023

Article

Berliner Energietage: smart thermostat control actively involves residents in climate protection

On May 5 2023 the digital version of Berliner Energietage came to a successful end. More than 60 events took place over the three days of the online congress. In the panel discussion “Digital Control: Housing Companies and Tenant Households Working Together for the Heat Transition in Existing Buildings”, Dr. Dirk Then, CEO of the noventic group, together with Dr. Christian Osthus, General Counsel (Justiziar) at the IVD Federal Association, Ralf Michels, Member of the Executive Committee of the VDIV and Professor Kunibert Lennerts, Professor of Facility Management at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), looked into the role of residents in climate protection in the housing industry and how to involve them in the heating transition.

Thomas Ahlborn

8 min

07/06/2023

Study

noventic study: the role of the tenant in climate protection in residential housing.

Climate protection in the building sector needs quick successes. A study commissioned by the noventic group on the role of tenants in climate protection shows that tenants are willing to make greater climate protection efforts within their own four walls, provided the cost, convenience and simplicity are right. To achieve rapid CO2 savings, the 1,000 tenant households surveyed showed a high level of acceptance of both the automation of heating and hot water supply and sharing of their own consumption data.

4 min

06/11/2021

Backgrounds

EU climate policy and its implementation in the building sector

The climate protection policy of the European Union (EU) is now one of the most important, most present and most publicly discussed policy areas of the EU institutions and the subject of a wide range of EU legislation.

Thies Grothe

6 min

19/06/2023

Glossary

Housing modernisation: Landlord-tenant dilemma

If an investor is unable to realise a return because he does not receive repayment from the beneficiary of his investment for the newly created benefit, this is known as the investor-user dilemma. The legal requirements to modernise the energy efficiency of residential buildings in order to achieve the German government's climate targets by 2050 are a recurring problem. This is why the term landlord-tenant dilemma is also used in this context.

Thomas Ahlborn

Technology & Innovation

A new digital home

Rüsselsheim is combining digitalisation with living, and is currently offering two innovations for the housing industry. One of these is the transformation of a former office building into an attractive residential building, which will create a new digital home for many. The property developer DIWO is pioneering new frontiers in the digitalisation of living in collaboration with the Noventic Group. Both tenants and landlords are benefiting from this development - and prospective tenants are queuing up.

Thomas Ahlborn

8 min

06/12/2018

Technology & Innovation

Technology & Innovation

Achieving savings with smart thermostats, and sparking the energy transition cost-effectively

Experts and industry stakeholders alike agree that there is huge potential for energy savings in the existing building stock. However, without the professional housing industry the energy and heating transition cannot succeed. To date, though, real estate has lagged dramatically behind on the decarbonisation front, and much greater efforts will be needed to achieve the goal set by politicians of reducing all CO2 emissions to net zero by 2045 in Germany and by 2050 in Europe.

Thomas Ahlborn

10/01/2023

Topic contribution

The digitalization of the energy transition

Building owners and managers face various challenges when trying to manage their building stock in an energy-efficient and sustainable manner. Short-term results with a lasting effect cannot be achieved through modernization. The digitalization of the energy transition is the key to making the housing stock energy-efficient and energy-saving as quickly and as low-investment as possible.

Thomas Landgraf

5 min

18/01/2023

theme article

Smart meter rollout: the wait is over - again!

Everything happened very quickly: In October, Economics Minister Robert Habeck announced a planned amendment to the Metering Point Operation Act, and in early December the media reported the first details of the Federal Economics Ministry's "Act to Restart the Digitalisation of the Energy Turnaround". The resumption of the digitisation of the energy transition thus appears to be within reach. Processes relating to smart meters are to be made less bureaucratic, much simpler and more cost-effective for consumers.

3 min

05/01/2023

Zitat Babette Peulicke Slott noventic group

Themenbeitrag

Does the visualisation of consumption data have an impact on user behaviour?

Whether the provision of consumption data visualisation has an impact on energy consumption in rented apartments was investigated in a study by energy anthropologist Babette Peulicke Slott of the Danish Technological Institute. Here you can find out what her findings were and whether visualisations do actually have an effect on consumption behaviour and thus on energy consumption.

30/09/2021

Theme article

Openness to technology

In open technology systems, data can be exchanged via agreed interface standards, regardless of the manufacturer. This is the basis for economical and future-proof solutions in climate-smart building control.

3 min

29/10/2019

Opinion & Position

Panel discussion

Online-Panel "Digital steuern" | Berliner ENERGIETAGE 2023

Online panel "Digital steuern: Wohnungsunternehmen und Mieterhaushalte gemeinsam für die Wärmewende im Gebäudebestand" (German only) from 4 May 2023, Berliner ENERGIETAGE digital. The digitalisation of building infrastructure holds great promise - we will be discussing the impact this has had on residential heating in pilot properties with our guests Prof. Lennerts (KIT), Ralf Michels (VDIV Germany), Dr Osthus (IVD) and Dr Then, CEO noventic group.

04/05/2023 · View article