In December 2016 the municipal waste collection plans, developed by INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT Professor Böhm und Partner under the project "Accompanying Measures for Solid Waste Management in Southeast Albania" funded by KfW Entwicklungsbank, were presented in the respective Municipalities of Korçë Region. These plans define the waste collections zones, routing and required equipment within each municipality – as well as the related costs.
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Within the framework of the KfW funded project for Advanced Solid Waste Management in Rustenburg Local Municipality (RLM)/ South Africa, INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT Professor Böhm und Partner is in the process of finalising the RLM Integrated Waste Management Plan (IWMP). To this end, a Consultation Workshop to discuss different options for future waste management has been held on 01 and 02 December 2016. Representatives of the RLM’s council,...
Within the INTERREG V B project CAN – Climate Active Neighbourhoods – 10 project partners from North West Europe work towards energy efficiency retrofits of underprivileged residential areas.
During the 2nd Working Group meeting several joint tasks and activities, like creating financing schemes to involve citizens and neighbourhoods or activation tools for behaviour change, have been launched. The meeting took place from October, 13th...
Between 20-22 September 2016, Scandria®2Act presented itself jointly with the projects TENTacle, NSB CoRe and Emma as flagship projects of the EU-Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region at the Fehmarnbelt Days 2016 in Hamburg. INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT Prof. Böhm und Partner was represented, by Sven Friedrich, the Scandria®2Act project manager.
The Fehmarnbeltdays 2016 (http://fehmarnbeltdays.com), organized by the STRING secretariat have been visited...
By publishing the plans, the first cycle of flood risk management planning in Baden-Württemberg was completed. INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT supported the development of the state-wide concept for the assessment and coordinated the necessary measures with the relevant stakeholders in nine out of 22 river basin units.
INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT and project partners of various INTERREG-projects investigated how INTERREG-projects, their measures and follow-up initiatives contributed to prevent damages of recent floods. The project was undertaken on behalf of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), financed by the Federal Programme for Transnational Cooperation of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.
The investigation’s...
On October 21, 2015, the European Commission accepted the cross-border cooperation programme INTERREG V A Germany/Brandenburg – Poland. Now, all INTERREG-VA development areas along the German-Polish border have approved programme documents.
In summer 2013 the administrative authority, the former Brandenburg Ministry of Economic and European Affairs (MWE), commissioned INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT (IU) to develop the programme document. Since November...
INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT congratulates the regional council Stuttgart being awareded the German Project Excellence Award for the project “Flood Risk Management Baden-Württemberg”.
After a development period of two years, hazard maps and risk management plans for the Drin-Delta in the north of Albania were presented on October 23, 2015. Representatives of the Ministry of Environment of Albania and of Montenegro, of the prefecture Shkodra, the German vice ambassador as well as all affected municipalities stakeholders participated in the launch event. Peter Heiland from INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT (IU) explained all work steps and...
Three municipalities in the northern Rhein-Sieg-Kreis continue to achieve their common aim: sustainability and responsible handling of climate protection and climate change. At the kickoff for the project “Development of an adaptation concept to climate change in the municipalities of Lohmar, Much and Ruppichteroth”, those responsible of the three municipalities and the common climate protection manager coordinated their expectations with the...
On 28 September 2015 the European Commission approved the cross-border cooperation programme INTERREG VA Germany/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania/Brandenburg – Poland.
In summer 2013, the managing authority, the Ministry of Economics, Construction and Tourism Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania commissioned INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT (IU) to develop the Programme document.
The opening ceremony took place in Szczecin on 30 September 2015 with several...
Today, the Steering Group Flood Risk Management Baden-Württemberg decided on updating the flood risk management planning. A continuation concept was developed with the support of INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT during the last months.
On October 21, 2014, the German-Polish territorial planning commission has decided to develop a common future concept for the German-Polish border region. The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (“Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR)”) commissioned INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT (IU) with the implementation of the project. The cartographical part is realised in cooperation with Katrin...
Within the project “Spatial planning analysis of the current cross-border transport infrastructure in the Polish-German border region, particularly in the Euro region PRO EUROPA VIADRINA and the Euro region Spree-Neisse Bober as well at the interfaces to the adjacent (Euro) regions” (AVerON), INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT (IU) and Heike Uhe, Niemiecko-Polska Kooperacja Gospodarcza npkg, presented the intermediate status of analysis of the tourist route...
The city of Tübingen intends to initiate and to coordinate a permanent process for municipal flood risk management. Implementing this task requires intensive and effective cooperation between different departments and institutions within the city. This cooperation should also consider the implementation of measures of the FRM-Plan.
The initiation of this process was promoted by the “WBW Fortbildungsgesellschaft” (Karlsruhe) and prepared and...
INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT was commissioned by Hessian Agency for the Environment and Geology (HLUG) to carry out the work package “Practice-relevant recommendations for (pilot) municipalities to take into account climate-relevant issues” within the project KLIMPRAX. The expertise centre climate change of Hessian Agency for the Environment and Geology (HLUG) is responsible for the project management, in close cooperation with “Deutscher Wetterdienst...
