ecoworks and Dawonia Launch Serial Renovation Project in Nuremberg
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ecoworks and Dawonia Launch Serial Renovation Project in Nuremberg
Berlin / Nuremberg, 12.09.2024 – A new era of sustainable building renovation is taking shape in Nuremberg, thanks to an innovative partnership between ecoworks, the market leader in serial, climate-neutral retrofitting, and Dawonia, one of southern Germany’s largest residential real estate companies. Together, the two partners have initiated a pioneering project to renovate 72 apartments, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence for project development, planning, and management.
The project focuses on three multi-family buildings from 1966, located on Schweidnitzer Str. and Militscher Str. in Nuremberg, with a total living area of 4,799 square meters. These buildings will undergo a serial energy retrofit to meet the KfW Efficiency House Standard 55 EE, significantly improving energy performance and resident comfort.
“We see it as our responsibility to preserve and create high-quality, affordable housing,” says Dawonia COO Sebastian Gefeller. “Our partnership with ecoworks allows us to break new ground and maximize efficiency as we work to bring our housing stock up to a sustainable, climate-friendly, and future-ready standard. We’re proud to be part of this trailblazing project.”
“Over the past two years, our development team has made significant progress in automating building modeling and project planning using artificial intelligence,” adds ecoworks founder Emanuel Heisenberg. “To make energy retrofits faster and more affordable, we are constantly advancing both software and hardware to automate the renovation industry.”
In a time of rising costs and skilled labor shortages, serial renovation based on digitalization and industrialization offers tremendous potential to cut costs while maintaining high quality-benefiting all residents. Existing buildings are upgraded with prefabricated thermal building envelopes, which are manufactured with integrated insulation, windows, thermal protection, and ventilation systems. New utility lines are routed along the exterior, making renovations more accessible and significantly reducing construction time. Prefabrication also ensures consistently high quality. The building envelope system is made from ecological materials that can be reused in a circular process after 50 to 70 years.
About Dawonia
With approximately 27,000 apartments, Dawonia is one of the largest real estate companies in Munich and southern Germany. A team of around 360 employees is dedicated to ensuring that Dawonia’s tenants and buyers feel at home. For over 80 years, Dawonia has been planning, developing, building, and managing high-quality, affordable housing. The company is currently investing billions to maintain, modernize, and expand its portfolio, with a large portion of sales proceeds and rental income reinvested. Active, agile portfolio management is the key to the company’s future viability. Since 2013, Dawonia has been owned by a consortium led by Patrizia Alternative Investments (PATRIZIA SE).
Contact person Dawonia:
Maren Holtermann
Dawonia Management GmbH
Dom-Pedro-Strasse 19
80637 Munich
+49 89 306 17-0
pr@dawonia.de
About ecoworks
ecoworks is the partner of choice for the housing sector when it comes to affordable energy retrofits. As a general contractor, ecoworks supports housing companies-from small cooperatives to large corporations-from the initial idea through to scalable, serial implementation. With serial retrofitting, 80% of value creation moves from the construction site to the factory. As a pioneer and innovation leader in serial retrofits in Germany, ecoworks designs, constructs, and installs facade and roof elements to upgrade multi-family buildings to net-zero standard in just a few weeks. The Berlin-based company developed its technology in Germany and is currently bringing it to the mass market through multiple projects. ecoworks is recognized as one of the world’s most innovative providers of climate technology for buildings and is currently working on more than 20 serial renovation projects across Germany.
Contact person ecoworks:
Phil Birkner
ecoworks GmbH
Lübecker Str. 1-2
10559 Berlin
+49 173 7195734
presse@ecoworks.tech
