noventic talk with Marco Hofmann, ZIA Committee Chairman for Digitalisation, and Dr Dirk Then, Managing Director of noventic GmbH, on the topic of data, digitalisation and climate protection in the housing industry.
noventic talk with Maria Hill, ZIA Committee Chairwoman for Energy and Building Technology, and Dr Dirk Then, Managing Director of noventic GmbH, at the 2022 Real Estate Industry Day on the topics of data protection in the housing industry, climate protection, energy and CO₂ savings in existing buildings (only available in German).
Stephan Bause, Managing Director of noventic, talks to Stefan Seidler, Member of the German Parliament, about the role of digitalisation on the way to a climate-neutral building stock - and what we can learn from our Scandinavian neighbours along the way.
The energy transition debate has long since moved from 'if' to 'how' - the goals of reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions could not be more relevant today.
Increasing the transparency of consumption to achieve greater savings - and at the same time create more climate protection in the housing sector. Can it work?
COVID has disrupted many things, including our Christmas traditions and customs. One thing remains unaltered, though: not everybody will see their wishes come true this Christmas. That is why we, the employees of the noventic group in Hamburg, would like to help by donating to the regional charity “Der Hafen hilft!”. Through its “Aktion Tannenbaum 2021!”, the charity aims to make the Christmas wishes of people living in social care institutions come true.
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.
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.
Today the discussion about more climate protection in rented housing has become overly focused on shifting costs and responsibility back and forth. In this context, digital climate protection technologies have long since provided solutions beneficial not only for the climate but also to tenants and landlords alike. All lawmakers have to do is create a safe, future-proof framework for everyone. A recent study conducted on our behalf by Andreas Pfnür, professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and Dr. Nikolas Müller, an engineer conducting post-doctoral research in the same faculty, found that many tenants are willing to make a substantial contribution to greater climate protection.
The Erfurt noventic subsidiary QUNDIS successfully passed this year's review of its environmental management system. The company can therefore continue to bear the "EMAS seal" of the European Union. Since 2015, QUNDIS has been regularly certified with the seal for tested environmental management (EMAS) of the European Union.
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.
Professor Dr. Andreas Pfnür, of Darmstadt Technical University (TU Darmstadt), and noventic Managing Director Dr. Dirk Then discuss the noventic study, in which 1,000 tenants were asked about their role in climate protection in the housing industry. How great is their willingness to participate in residential housing climate protection? And what role do costs, automated processes, digitisation and sharing consumption data play?
