As of: February 28, 2024, 5:36 a.m
By: Charlotte Borst
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Barrier-free with a wooden facade, PV system and heat pump: The district is expanding the vocational school with three new wings, a sports hall and a residential building (r.).
© Köhler Architects
The need to save money also applies to the expansion of the vocational school in Riem.
The SPD demand for building standards was rejected.
District – Ever higher standards are driving the costs of school buildings to exorbitant heights.
Municipalities have to pay 80 to 100 million or more.
Who can still afford that – and do high-tech buildings even make sense?
Probably not, says the SPD in the district council.
She calls for cost comparisons and rules, because school construction costs in Munich and the Munich district are the most expensive in Germany.
“If we give ourselves standards beforehand, we can save a lot of discussions and a lot of money,” said Unterhaching’s mayor and SPD district councilor Wolfgang Panzer in the Committee for Building and Schools.
Support came from Otto Bußjäger (FW): “The Höhenkirchen high school once cost 30 million, now the extension alone costs 33 million.” The standards should be lowered a little under the premise that operating costs do not increase.
FDP district councilor Manfred Riederle sees the Free State as responsible; after all, the demands for high standards usually come from school staff employed by the Free State.
“We should carry on as before”
District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU) believes the SPD's approach is correct, but the proposal is wrong: comparisons and regulations would cause effort and bureaucracy.
In addition, new rules would only affect a few buildings, the district has almost completed its school needs plan and will only address a few schools by 2038.
However, Göbel believes it is necessary to better control the operating costs of high schools, secondary schools and technical colleges, for example when it comes to cleaning costs.
Florens Hintler from the district administration argued that the district councils would already control costs and decide on additional reports or rounds of savings: “We should continue as before.” Christina Risinger (Greens) is also convinced: “A comparison of school buildings is always wrong The majority in the committee rejected the SPD proposal, against the votes of Wolfgang Panzer, Alexander Greulich (both SPD) and Otto Bußjäger (FW).
A lower standard saves 2.7 million euros
The district councilors demonstrated how the austerity measures taken in the district are now affecting school buildings when they discussed the standard for the modern expansion of the Munich-Land vocational school in Riem at the previous meeting.
They overturned the gold standard for energy efficiency and switched to the legal minimum standard KFW 40 for climate-friendly construction.
The green roof, built-in lockers and mechanical ventilation devices are no longer required.
The construction costs fall by 2.7 million from 85 to around 82 million euros.
However, the replanning has a significant impact with follow-up costs of 1.4 million, so that the project ultimately costs 83.2 million euros.
Rainwater should only be collected for the outdoor areas and not used for flushing toilets, which was initially planned.
When it comes to operating costs – calculated over 50 years – and the greenhouse gas balance, there is hardly any change compared to the gold standard.
But the replanning also takes time: the construction, which was supposed to start in June and be occupied in autumn 2026, will probably be finished 14 months later.
For Wolfgang Panzer, this is proof that construction standards would make sense: “We would have come to today’s conclusion a year ago.”
Further news from the Munich district can be found here.