The geothermal energy in Holzkirchen is worthy of a prize. There was now an award for the sustainability award for the building material.
Holzkirchen - climate-friendly and regional: The geothermal plant in Holzkirchen, in which the market town has invested 60 million euros, is obviously a worthwhile project. Only this year in January, the municipal works received the Sustainability Award 2020 from the newspaper for local economy (ZfK) at the Ludwig Erhard summit in the Bachmair-Weissach-Arena in Kreuth (we reported). "It is a real success story," at that time President Ilse Aigner praised the prestige project of the market town. Now there is another award: The Rosenheim timber construction award also goes to the Holzkirchner geothermal plant, as the municipal works as operator announce in a press report. "The audience rewards natural and sustainable construction," it says.
Visitors to the geothermal plant and users of the B 318 were sure to have noticed: "Plenty of wood was used in the Alte Au and successfully demonstrated that an industrial plant can also be designed to be close to nature," the local authorities continued. A total of 382 cubic meters of wood were used for the machine house, the operating building and the heat center, mainly in the structure and the facades. "This type of construction is not harmful to the environment, on the contrary, it is important for the climate." Because with every meter of wood used for construction, a ton of CO2 is bound over the lifespan. The built-in quantity grows again - in purely mathematical terms - in a forest the size of the market town of Holzkirchen in eleven days. Since wood is considered the raw material of the Oberland anyway, this sustainable construction also strengthens the regional economy.
Wood wherever you look: The heat center from which many households are already supplied with geothermal energy.
© Daniel Schvarcz
The Rosenheim Timber Construction Prize is awarded by the Rosenheim District Association, a working group made up of architects from various departments and artists. Its members want to raise awareness of high-quality architecture and high-quality wooden buildings.
With 91 submitted building objects, there was a record number of participants for the competition this year. Prizes were awarded in various categories, with the architectural firm Ferdinand and Gerth commissioned by the Holzkirchen municipal works winning the “Audience Award” category. In this category, the participants could only vote online.
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Albert Götz, Managing Director of the municipal works, is pleased about the award: "There was a very lively participation in the public vote, and we are very pleased that our system and its construction apparently find a high level of acceptance among the people in the region." He would like to thank the architecture office, the IFT office for structural engineering and last but not least the carpentry Stoib from Warngau. All of them “had an excellent job”. Götz also sends a big thank you to the Holzkirchner town councilor Robert Wiechmann (Greens), who contributed his high level of expertise as a forest engineer to the competition. The competition exhibition will take place until June 6th at the Rosenheim University of Technology.
You can find out more about the system here: The reward for courage: Geothermal energy Holzkirchen officially opened