Green building in Germany

{{short description|Overview of green building in Germany}}

German developments that employ green building techniques include:

• The Solarsiedlung (Solar Settlement) in Freiburg, Germany, which features PlusEnergy houses.[http://hosting.more-elements.com/MoccaMS/projects/plusenergie/index.php?p=home&pid=266&L=0&host=1 Rolf Disch Solararchitektur - Plusenergiehäuser]
• The Sonnenschiff (Sun Ship) in Freiburg, Germany, which is also built according to German solar architect Rolf Disch PlusEnergy standards.{{Cite web |url=http://hosting.more-elements.com/MoccaMS/projects/plusenergie/index.php?p=home&pid=266&L=0&host=2 |title=Rolf Disch Solararchitektur |access-date=2009-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817012420/http://hosting.more-elements.com/MoccaMS/projects/plusenergie/index.php?p=home&pid=266&L=0&host=2 |archive-date=2016-08-17 |url-status=dead }}
• The Vauban quarter, also in Freiburg.
• Houses designed by Baufritz, incorporating passive solar design, heavily insulated walls, triple-glaze doors and windows, non-toxic paints and finishes, summer shading, heat recovery ventilation, and greywater treatment systems.John Imes, [http://www.wi-ei.org/germanymission.pdf Grün auf Deutsch] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912052322/http://www.wi-ei.org/germanymission.pdf |date=2008-09-12 }}, at HOME in the Capital Region, pp 35–36.
• The new Reichstag building in Berlin, which produces its own energy.
• The Heichrich Böll Siedlung in Berlin-Pankow as a forerunner for Green Building in post-cold war Berlin emphasizes on "every day ecology", instead of High-Tech-Measurements.

In January 2009, the first German certificates for sustainable buildings were handed over. The standard for the new certificates is developed by the DGNB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für nachhaltiges Bauen e.V. - German Sustainable Building Council) and the BMVBS (Bundesministeriums für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung - Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs)