Creating a "wood-to-city" value chain in Berlin
Bauhuette 4.0, Germany
This initiative is planning to develop Europe’s first “Forest-to-City” value chain for affordable housing in wood, located in the heart of Europe, in the neighborhood of the former Tegel airport in Berlin. It is developing a 3S based prototypical value chain that connects actors from forest management in Brandenburg region as the Sink, housing construction in Berlin as Storage, and building of the new residential “Schumacher Quartier” constructed with prefabricated wood components as an example of Substitution.
BAUHUETTE 4.0 INTERVENTIONS ACROSS THE 3S FRAMEWORK
SINK
Bauhuette 4.0 will be using home-grown timber from regional Brandenburg and Berlin forests to supply the construction material, working with public and private forest owners to encourage sustainable harvesting practices
STORAGE
Endorsed by the local and regional government, this initiative will address the urgent need for low-cost housing in Berlin, providing around 6.000 housing units out of a total need of 200.000 estimated for Berlin
SUBSTITUTION
It aims to reduce energy and carbon demand in the construction sector by promoting industrialized wood-based construction, stepping away from fossil-energy intensive steel and concrete production, thus reducing embodied carbon occurring prior to a building being inhabited
Carbon modelling for this BI is still ongoing; results coming soon
CSFEP's ROLE
Modelling the Value Chain and analysing the 3S carbon impact
Building a Community of Practice across the Wood-to-City value chain, which will be used as a knowledge generation and management tool
Benchmarking the current knowledge of setting up a sustainable forest to city value chain
THE BAUHUETTE 4.0 STORY
BAUHUETTE 4.0'S IMPACT
Based on the innovative ideas of the Bauhaus and the Bauhütte movement, as well as a horizontally and vertically digitally networked forest-to-city value chain for urban timber construction, Bauhuette 4.0 aims to raise this untapped potential. The aim is to establish highly efficient and (partially) automated production, assembly and logistics concepts as well as a close stringent connection between sustainable urban development, new urban infrastructures and (supra-)regional forestry.
A general feasibility and potential study carried out in 2020 showed the positive urban development, economic and climate-related effects that can be expected from an established Bauhuette 4.0:
Significant price reduction of timber construction methods for the creation of affordable housing
Increase in the use of wood as a bio-based building material and a resultant reduction of CO2 emissions in the construction industry
Increase in the storage of CO2 in cities and the strengthening of small and medium-sized enterprises as well as the creation of new jobs in the timber industry
PARTNERSHIPS
