The Hamburg Standard is intended to enable a new building culture that will allow affordable and attractive living space to be created in the future. More demand-oriented planning, more efficient management processes and faster approvals can save up to 2,000 euros gross per square metre of living space in new residential construction.
This is shown by the recently published results of Hamburg's "Cost-reduced construction initiative", which is to be implemented in the Hanseatic city as the first federal state in Germany. Dr Peter Tschentscher, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: "In close cooperation with the housing industry, over 100,000 new flats have been completed in Hamburg since 2011. However, rising construction costs are dampening housing construction. The new Hamburg Standard aims to make building good and more affordable."
Karen Pein, Senator for Urban Development and Housing: "The new Hamburg standard is the long-awaited breakthrough for reducing construction costs in Germany. High-quality residential construction is also possible for 3,000 euros gross per square metre of living space. Construction costs can thus be reduced by over a third . (...) The results of the Hamburg "Cost-reduced building initiative" are an effective contribution to more affordable housing and at the same time an invitation to the entire industry to create the basis for a new planning and building culture. We show that construction costs can be significantly reduced by bringing together politics, administration, planning, construction and the housing industry - while maintaining high quality and sustainability."
Prof Dietmar Walberg, Managing Director of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für zeitgemäßes Bauen e. V. (ARGE): "Building standards have risen to an unaffordable level in recent decades, whether due to individual or social expectations of housing construction. The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg has analysed this in detail in a highly ambitious process with all those involved in construction, thereby laying a valid foundation for solving the problem." All information on the "Cost-reduced construction initiative" can be found on the website www.bezahlbarbauen.hamburg.
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