On 3 June 2024, the gefma-Lounge Bayern Nürnberg in cooperation with the project ‘Klimapakt2030plus - Energiewende in der Metropolregion Nürnberg’ welcomed numerous participants to the ‘Energie Campus Nürnberg e.V.’ for the lecture ‘Demanding energy standards to achieve climate neutrality for municipal buildings’.
Eva Anlauft, Head of the Central Tasks Department at the Building Construction Office of the City of Nuremberg, began the presentation by discussing the goals of the City of Nuremberg with regard to the construction and refurbishment of municipal buildings. The implementation concept envisages achieving a climate-neutral building stock in terms of electricity by 2035 and in terms of heat by 2050. This means that all construction projects must be assessed by the city council in terms of their impact on climate protection. The City of Nuremberg has therefore developed guidelines for energy-efficient, economical and sustainable construction and refurbishment in municipal building construction projects. Ms Anlauft illustrated the measures with numerous concrete project examples and experiences. The City of Nuremberg has also developed an evaluation system to assess the impact of new construction and refurbishment measures on climate protection, the so-called ‘sustainability check’, which was introduced as a supplement to the property plan for projects costing EUR 500,000 or more from 1 February 2022.
Paul Horn, Technical Director of Facility Management at WBG KOMMUNAL GmbH, then gave a valuable insight into his ‘Experience in the operation of new building projects for the city of Nuremberg’ in his sparring presentation. He emphasised the key objectives of energy management as being cross-trade analysis, the identification of optimisation potential, the implementation of savings measures, the verification of savings, the controlling of building functions and the comparison with other buildings. In connection with these objectives, he emphasised that the greatest challenge lies in the fact that energy measurement alone is not enough. Only through the combination of energy measurement and rule-based technical monitoring can malfunctions be detected. In practice, however, these faults often go unnoticed for a long time and lead to increased energy consumption. The constantly growing complexity of technical building systems is therefore particularly problematic.
The informative and descriptive presentations led to numerous questions, which were discussed in detail in the final networking session. We would like to thank the sponsors of the gefma Lounge Bayern-Nürnberg for their support.
