Yes, we have a deal!
Our contribution to the transformation of the building sector
Thilo Ebert
The aim of the EU Green Deal is to ensure that Europe is the first climate neutral continent by 2050. By drawing up the ATP Green Deal we have created a structure that ensures that sustainable planning and building is standard in all our projects. This means that we and our clients can jointly assume responsibility for the future.
The construction sector causes around 40% of global CO₂ emissions. If we don’t start thinking differently now, then the climate will pass the tipping point. Irreversibly. So, if we have to build we must do so in another way!The European Climate Law states that sustainability will change from being a favorable option to a necessary must-have. This is a huge task, but also a unique opportunity for us architects and engineers to improve our built environment.
With our ATP Green Deal, we are making an important contribution on the path to climate neutrality. Because such action reflects our corporate culture and because we’ve spent years embodying, using, and developing the most important instrument for the implementation of sustainable building: Integrated design and the associated interdisciplinary cooperation form a basis, if not a prerequisite, for creating resource-friendly and sustainable buildings and we have successfully united these with the potential offered by such state-of-the-art digitalization methods as Building Information Modeling. We use BIM as a robust design tool in all our projects and have even developed our own sustainability features, which enable us to calculate such things as the level of gray and red CO₂-emissions. And: We educate the employees of all our offices via the ATP Academy on the subject of sustainable designing and building as a means of ensuring that they think and act sustainably in all our projects – and that they do so before any important project decisions have been taken … before the architect has come up with ideas that the structural engineer ruins with columns or that get in the way of shafts or ducts that the building services engineer needs but which can no longer be executed – at the expense of the project’s sustainability.
No integrated project leaves our office without the model of an ideal variant – a building that operates climate-neutrally. We do this for our clients – whether they want it or not.
Because we’re convinced: By drawing up an ideal variant, we transfer the knowledge about all that is really possible to all of ATP’s teams. The fact that we then adapt this ideal variant into a real variant that takes into account all of the client’s requirements is clear. But our experience shows us that someone who’s already come face-to-face with the ideal solution will fight hard to realize the most sustainable one. And, in doing so, fill a client or two with enthusiasm about climate-neutral building. And we’re delighted to report that we’ve already detected a strong trend in this direction.
If it’s common to hear the EU Green Deal described as the “moon landing” of the 21st century, then we at ATP, rather than having a man on the moon, have a whole expert team up there! In order to create taxonomy-compliant, sustainable, and climate-neutral buildings, there’s also a need for courageous, innovative design decisions in every project phase, from the selection of materials to the demolition concept. Our established in-house sustainability-structure enables us to give each project the time and resources it needs to be truly innovative. Why do we do this? Because it has to do with nothing less than our future. A future that we’re excellently equipped to face!
