An important aspect is the Transformation to a Beneficial Company. Here, entrepreneurial success does not come at the expense of the environment, but benefits it. They're profitable because they're beneficial — not anyway. Digital, climate-positive and socially engaged: These aspects form the basis for the ten future theses of the construction and real estate industry in 2030.

Particularly interesting from an EPEA perspective:

Thesis 3: Modular, climate-neutral and recyclable: Buildings are built industrially according to the Cradle to Cradle design principle. New tools make it possible to digitally map the entire product life cycle.

The majority of buildings will be built in 2030 from industrially manufactured modules with recyclable components. The prefabricated modules are delivered and assembled on site in such a way that they can also be easily separated again and the raw materials remain recyclable.

Requirements and functions of buildings form the basis for their planning and development. To support this, new digital tools make the planning process fit for Industry 4.0. The focus is not on process steps, but through digital product lifecycle management, we look at the entire product life cycle. All phases, from construction to use and dismantling of buildings, draw on the same consistent data.

The modules are planned and developed with partners and industrial manufacturers for innovative solutions. Flexible, parameterizable standard components are used, which are optimized according to the Cradle to Cradle design principle. The installed systems and products can therefore be easily separated again and the building functions as a raw material depot.

In 2030, the focus is on holistic buildings, which consist of healthy building products and industrially prefabricated systems and are integrated into a completely digital process flow. As a power plant, it also generates its own sustainable energy.

The benefits at micro and macro levels are obvious: The 2030 building is characterized by increased energy efficiency — at best climate-positive, at least it can demonstrate reduced CO2 emissions. It is a raw material depot with recyclable modules and stands for an increase in efficiency along the entire product life cycle thanks to completely transparent planning and production as well as efficient processes with short development, production and construction times.
  

The new European Bauhaus for the 21st century

“The Green Deal must also be a new cultural project for Europe! Each movement has its own look and appeal. We must reconcile design and sustainability.” This is how European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen puts it in a newspaper article — and calls for the new European Bauhaus.

We rightly link the “first” Bauhaus a good 100 years ago closely with the transition to the industrial age.

The new Europa-Bauhaus 2.0 offers the opportunity to communicate the European Green Deal to people. The message should be: A contemporary, attractive lifestyle can be anything: convenient, digital, sustainable.

The Bauhaus of 1919 was considered elitist. A new Bauhaus must not bear this attribute. Instead, it must stand for the reconciliation of the construction industry and nature. Doing business sustainably, reusing materials, using renewable energy, preserving biodiversity and launching a genuine circular economy — that's what matters. With the C2C design principle, we do justice to this.

Europa-Bauhaus 2.0 is intended to create completely climate-neutral and livable cities with resource efficiency and reusability.

It is about a new aesthetic shaped by the Green Deal that combines design and sustainability.

Here you can download all theses.

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