wbg Nürnberg GmbH Immobilienunternehmen has won the “Deutscher Bauherrenpreis”, a German-wide award for real estate developers for the project “EUROPAN 12” – a housing complex with 132 residential units in the urban area of Südstadt, Nuremberg.
The Deutscher Bauherrenpreis is considered the most important prize in the field of housing construction in Germany and has been awarded since 1986. For the first time, the prizes for the Deutscher Bauherrenpreis 2022 competition were awarded last Thursday evening during the Federal Congress on National Urban Development Policy in Berlin. The Deutscher Bauherrenpreis is traditionally awarded under the motto “High quality – affordable costs”. Prizes are awarded for forward-looking and innovative examples that meet the diverse challenges of our time and offer transferable solutions.
This year, a total of 187 projects were submitted by builders throughout Germany for the Deutscher Bauherrenpreis. These include new buildings, modernisations and conversions. From the large number of applicants, 29 projects were nominated for the coveted prize. The interdisciplinary jury chaired by Susanne Wartzeck, President of the Association of German Architects (BDA), awarded the Deutscher Bauherrenpreis to a total of seven projects, as well as two special prizes.
“The challenges faced by the building industry have increased enormously in recent years. Housing construction should and must be simultaneously climate-friendly, sustainable and affordable. This year’s award winners provide impressive examples of how sustainable housing construction works. In the current crisis situation, however, affordable housing construction is becoming all the more difficult and even impossible in view of rising construction costs, shortages of materials and skilled workers, exploding energy costs, rising interest rates and completely inadequate funding. It is therefore more important than ever to create framework conditions that continue to make building in ‘high quality and at affordable costs’” possible, says Axel Gedaschko, President of GdW Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilienunternehmen (Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Enterprises) on the occasion of the award ceremony.
According to the jury’s statement, the small-scale urban development of the 1920s in Nuremberg’s Südstadt was further developed to form a liveable district with urban density, making it exemplary for the upcoming challenges of urban redevelopment.
The constructions of the new replacement buildings saw the creation of 132 rental flats, 49 of which were subsidised according to EOF, as well as an after-school care centre with 25 places and four additional commercial units. For this purpose, wbg Nürnberg invested around €28.2 million.
“We are very pleased about this award, because it is an important recognition of the further development of Südstadt and it shows that the wbg team is pursuing the further development of its districts with great expertise and is working creatively on solutions to meet the challenges of the housing market in Nuremberg”, states wbg Managing Director Ralf Schekira on the occasion of the award ceremony.
