InnovationCity Ruhr
The InnovationCity Ruhr is a project with which, for the first time in the world, an industrial urban district is to be comprehensively refurbished in terms of energy. The aim of the overall project is to promote climate-friendly urban redevelopment while at the same time securing the industrial site in Bottrop . Specifically, CO 2 emissions are to be reduced by 50 percent and the quality of life increased. The InnovationCity Ruhr is to become a model for the renewal of the entire Ruhr area, but also of other industrial metropolises worldwide.
Chronology of the city competition
In the spring of 2010, the Initiativkreis Ruhr started the competition for the “Climate City of the Future”. According to the tender, all Ruhr area municipalities with a “typical piece of the Ruhr area” with a population of around 50,000 could apply. In the first phase of the competition, a total of 16 Ruhr area municipalities, including Bochum , Bottrop , Castrop-Rauxel , Dortmund , Duisburg , Essen , Gelsenkirchen - Herten , Gladbeck , Hamm , Herne - Recklinghausen , Mülheim an der Ruhr , Oberhausen , Schwerte and Witten , applied. From the five finalists Bochum, Bottrop, Essen, Gelsenkirchen-Herten and Mülheim an der Ruhr, an expert jury named Bottrop as the pilot area for the InnovationCity Ruhr at the beginning of November 2010.
Idea and conception
Cities are particularly important when it comes to the sustainable use of existing resources , as they currently consume 80 percent of all resources used. In the energy sector in particular, where fossil fuels are mainly used, alternative energy solutions are required. This is where the “InnovationCity Ruhr” project comes in.
The approach with which the goals of the InnovationCity Ruhr are to be achieved can be described as the “energy transition from below”. Individual buildings are to be energetically renovated and equipped with systems for generating electricity and heat. A combined use of different technologies, such as B. photovoltaics , heat pumps and electricity storage can ensure that a house is almost exclusively self-sufficient. The energy gained in this way can also be distributed to surrounding buildings by intelligent energy management systems, if these cannot be self-sufficient due to external circumstances. This networking down to the level of entire city districts means that energy can be generated and consumed locally. This reduces the energy consumption of individual users and increases decentralized energy generation.
implementation
The project is coordinated by Innovation City Management GmbH, in which a team of company-owned and municipal employees and employees from industry work together. The now more than 125 individual projects can be assigned to the fields of living, working, mobility, energy and the city. In addition to implementing the individual projects, the focus is also on activating and involving the population. Homeowners have the opportunity to find out more about the energetic renovation of their building as part of an advisory service and to be accompanied by energy consultants during renovation measures.
Master plan and innovation manual
The holistic approach is an integral part of the InnovationCity Ruhr. A climate-friendly urban redevelopment can only succeed if the interaction of various technical, social and economic aspects is taken into account at the same time. Accordingly, the individual projects must be integrated into an overall framework in order to coordinate their content and to utilize synergy effects. For this purpose, a superordinate master plan with a specific timetable for defining the next project steps is being developed. This lays the foundations for the implementation of the project up to 2020 and beyond in a structured planning process. The Bottrop population is explicitly involved in this process in order to also exploit individual, locally limited optimization potential.
In an innovation handbook based on this, the city of Bottrop is to be used as an example to show which specific work steps, procedures, methods, tools and organizational structures are necessary in order to carry out sustainable urban redevelopment in existing buildings, thus ensuring information and knowledge transfer and thus transferability to others Cities and regions. The claim of InnovationCity Ruhr as a model city to be a pioneer for climate-friendly urban redevelopment is evident not only in the area of innovation, but especially in ensuring transferability.
Awards
On November 21, 2013, the project received a special prize as part of the 2nd German Sustainability Award.
Basic data pilot area Bottrop
| Surface: | 2463.615 ha |
| Residents: | approx. 69,000 |
| Building: | 14,474; thereof 1,068 trade and industry |
Web links
- Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , Westphalia regional, district development: Article on InnovationCity Bottrop
- InnovationCity Bottrop and roll out in the Energy Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Sustainability Award ( Memento of the original dated November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 22, 2013
