Re-Use Austria
BauKarussell, the Viennese start-up for social urban mining, currently has a lot to report. While two new projects have started - for Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol at RAIQA in Innsbruck and for Energie AG Oberösterreich in Linz - we are delighted with the positive social urban mining balance at the MedUni Mariannengasse campus (client: BIG).
When demolishing buildings, it is BauKarussell's mission to focus on social and sustainable aspects and to create the highest possible social added value through the implementation of a real circular economy. There have already been several awards for this: the Environment Prize of the City of Vienna 2018, the Phönix special award "Waste avoidance" 2018 and most recently the award from the Ö1 initiative "Repair of the future". Starting from Vienna, BauKarussell is gradually making the concept of social urban mining known in Austria. RepaNet is involved in BauKarussell and we are pleased to present two new BauKarussell projects today and to take stock of them. Tip: With the BauKarussell newsletter always stay up to date.
THE RAIQA in Innsbruck
Social urban mining is finding its way into western Austria: Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol has commissioned BauKarussell to coordinate and accompany the dismantling of its previous headquarters in Adamgasse in Innsbruck. The local social economy BauKarussell partners are the Association ISSBA, clapboard & wood, Ho & Jerk (all three RepaNet members) and the Emmaus Association. We have already started to remove fluorescent tubes and prepare them for removal and to remove built-in furniture (see photo above). In addition, as many components as possible should be recycled. The work should be completed in a time window of around six months. BauKarussell coordinates and accompanies the process. The on-site video interviews are well worth seeing Thomas Romm (architect and founder of BauKarussell) with a Lené Ladstätter (GF von Schindel & Holz).
Following the demolition, a contemporary, sustainable building complex with hybrid use will be created at the location with the RAIQA - large parts of the existing building fabric will be retained. Parts of the facade are also used again as flooring in the RAIQA. Reinhard Mayr, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol: “As the top institute of the Raiffeisen Banking Group Tirol, we want to be effective in the region over the long term and also provide economic and socio-political impulses. In the long term, social urban mining should become the standard process for the demolition of commercial buildings. "
Social urban mining next to the Linz Power Tower
Paul Höretzeder (Energie AG) and General Director (Energie AG) Werner Steinecker with the project team Markus Niederhuber (TeamWORK), Walter Traxler (FAB) and Hans Kirchmayr (Bernegger) [/ caption]
There is also good news from Upper Austria. After a first project in Linz in spring (we reported) has now brought Energie AG Oberösterreich BauKarussell on board to implement social urban mining before a five-story residential building next to the Power Tower in Linz is demolished. Bernegger, the company commissioned with the demolition, directly involves the social economy companies FAB and TEAMwork in the preparatory work for the demolition. Hans Kirchmayr from Bernegger GmbH: “Entrepreneurship goes hand in hand with a great social responsibility and we strive to take it on wherever possible. We are pleased that we have the opportunity to support disadvantaged people in this way and to integrate them into our work processes. ”The teams clear out the building complex and remove around 1.700 m² of existing wooden parquet so that the materials are finally sorted and sorted for recycling or disposal Energie AG General Director Werner Steinecker: “For Energie AG, it is of central importance to assume social responsibility. This project makes it possible to link environmental protection with social aspects - that's why we brought BauKarussell on board. "
MedUni Mariannengasse campus: 140.000 kg of material recycled on behalf of BIG
There is also news from Mariannengasse in Vienna: Where the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft mbH is building the new MedUni Mariannengasse campus for MedUni Vienna by the end of 2025, BauKarussell was the dismantling and recycling center DRZ and Die with its socio-economic partners from October 2019 to July 2020 CARE active. The result is impressive: In 5.000 socio-economic working hours, 81.170 kg of material were separated by type in intensive manual dismantling work and prepared for further recycling or removal, including fluorescent tubes, false ceilings and various fractions of non-ferrous metals.
The building also contained real treasures of re-use goods: 60.400 kg of reusable components and objects - from heavy-duty shelves to stair handrails to vintage clocks - were conveyed by BauKarussell via a component catalog and are used by customers in new projects. For example, paternoster cabins around a hundred years old found their way into the Vienna Elevator Museum (more on this), the Viennese start-up Lenkerbande set up a DIY bicycle repair workshop exclusively with components from the property and an Art Nouveau glass ceiling and handrails will be staged in the Hrabalek Park in the Bohemian Prater from autumn. The project thus tells many stories of a functioning circular economy with social added value.
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BauKarussell-News: "RAIQA" Innsbruck: Social and sustainable demolition in western Austria
BauKarussell-News: BauKarussell and BIG: Social Urban Mining Success at MedUni Mariannengasse Campus
Press release BauKarussell, BIG and MedUni Vienna: From chandeliers to copper cables
BauKarussell-News: Student excursion: Sustainable resource management live
BauKarussell-News: Re-use components now available in the online component catalog
RepaNews: Social urban mining at the MedUni Mariannengasse campus
Press release Energie AG: Energie AG Upper Austria: Social Urban Mining next to the Linz Power Tower
RepaNews: BauKarussell awarded with environmental prize
RepaNews: Phönix waste avoidance: Awarded for construction re-use and recycling management
BauKarussell News: Repair of the future: BauKarussell awarded
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