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Minister Klara Geywitz spoke between module production and the audience.
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With wooden modular construction, living space can be created efficiently and sustainably.
Federal Construction Minister Klara Geywitz was convinced of this at the inauguration of Timber Homes production in Dorfen.
Dorfen
– Timber construction, especially serial timber modular construction, will become increasingly important.
Coming from the two managing directors of Timber Homes, such a statement is not a big surprise.
But Federal Construction Minister Klara Geywitz also said on Tuesday in front of Robert Decker and Josef Huber and around 200 invited guests: “Wooden construction will have a great future.” The SPD politician came to the inauguration ceremony of the new Timber Homes production hall in Dorfen, in which now Up to four fully installed residential building modules can be manufactured every day.
This is where “exactly what I’ve been talking about all the time is happening,” explained Geywitz.
Nowadays the construction sector is a major CO2 emitter.
But through wooden construction, the climate gas can even be stored in the building structure, explained the minister.
Serial production also corresponds to the industrial age.
This means that urgently needed increases in efficiency can be achieved.
“If we continue to build like before, we will need 33 percent more skilled workers.
But where are we supposed to get them?” said Geywitz about the federal government’s goal of building 400,000 apartments a year.
They only managed 300,000.
Cheap labor from EU countries further east would have kept the construction industry going, said managing director Robert Decker.
“Ten years ago we would simply have been too early with our business model.”
Countries like Sweden or Japan are already much further along with modular construction, and in Germany this also requires administrative simplifications, such as the mutual recognition of type approvals, says Geywitz.
If, for example, a residential module from Timber Homes has already been approved in Bavaria, Brandenburg should not have to check it again.
The production line was started just in time for the white sausages after the speeches.
A warning signal sounded and residential building modules in various stages of production slowly glided past the audience on the rails in the production hall.
“We are moving away from our factory to industrial module production,” said Decker.
“In the old hall we still pushed every module by hand.” And yet 25,000 square meters of living space have already been produced there on a turnkey basis.
Realized projects include a zero-emissions district in Straubing and the new police headquarters in Rosenheim.
According to Decker, projects are currently underway in Steinhöring and Attl, among others.
The entrepreneur has big plans in the immediate vicinity in the south of Dorfen.
An entire quarter is being built on the former brickworks site that belongs to the investor.
The Free State is promoting this transformation in the LandStadt project.
During the tour of the Timber Homes offices, the Federal Minister stopped at a support column made of finely layered glued wood.
“This is construction beech,” Decker explained.
A single factory in Germany can produce these high-strength support beams.
"This is very important.
“Thanks to the forest conversion away from spruce and pine, we have more hardwood,” commented Geywitz before she signed the Golden Book of the city of Dorfen in a company meeting room.
Mayor Heinz Grundner had brought it with him in his briefcase and then carefully packed it back up.
During the tour through the production line, the woodworkers, members of parliament and ministry representatives continued their technical discussions.
Ingrid Simet, ministerial director in the Bavarian Ministry of Construction, received praise from Decker for the new timber construction guidelines in the Free State.
The entrepreneur then immediately formulated a homework assignment for the federal and state governments.
“We have to move away from tendering on a trade-by-trade basis,” he said with regard to the procurement guidelines for public buildings.
The Timber Homes modules arrive at the construction site tiled, painted, furnished and complete with bathroom installation.
“We are currently revising the procurement guidelines,” replied Geywitz.
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Both ministries promised that the sustainability of wood as a building material – less “gray energy” is used here – will be increasingly calculated and taken into account when awarding contracts.
“But please don’t add more bureaucracy with gray energy,” objected MP Andreas Lenz (CSU) during the tour of production.