BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – After Federal Building Minister Klara Geywitz, the Chair of the Building Ministers’ Conference, Nicole Razavi, is also questioning stricter specifications for insulating residential buildings. “What Klara Geywitz is saying now has been my attitude for a long time,” said the CDU politician, department head in Baden-Württemberg, on Friday. “We have to manage to bring affordability and climate protection together in housing construction.”
SPD politician Geywitz said on Thursday that from the EH55 efficiency standard at the latest it was questionable whether costs and saved energy were in a reasonable relationship. EH55 means that a home uses only 55 percent of the energy of a comparable new build. According to the coalition agreement, traffic lights want the even stricter EH40 standard for new buildings from 2025.
Razavi said: “The federal government’s fixation on insulation leads to a dead end. It drives up the already high construction costs and brings practically nothing to climate protection.” Instead, one should “take a look at the greenhouse gas emissions of a building over its entire lifetime and rely on openness to technology”. That is the attitude of the entire conference of construction ministers, i.e. the construction ministers of the 16 countries./vsr/DP/mis
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