October 2022

If damage occurs after mains water damage due to defective pipes in a condominium owner's apartment, this must be paid for jointly by all condominium owners. This was decided by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH)/judgement of September 16, 2022 - V ZR 69/21 V ZR 69/21 In this case, a community of owners had taken out building insurance for the special...

The brigitte.de portal shows how interested parties can turn old books into decorative items. For example, a side table can be made from several books. This works by stacking the books, gluing them together and then staging them with spray paint. According to brigitte.de, disused books can also be used to make postcards. To do this, the pages are...

If you want to buy a new-build apartment in Munich, you will have to dig deep into your pockets. According to the study "11th edition of the Property Index - Overview of European Residential Markets" by Deloitte GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Munich is the second most expensive city in Europe in this respect. While buyers in Munich have to pay 10,500 euros per square meter, the...

How can vibrations from extremely large wooden ceilings of over eight meters be reduced? Patrica Hamm, lecturer at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Project Management at Biberach University of Applied Sciences (HBC), is investigating this question. Together with Master's students Johannes Ruf and Valentin Knöpfle as well as the project partner, Primin Jung Deutschland GmbH, she wants to develop a vibration-optimized...

Researchers in building physics at the University of Weimar are investigating how they can improve the energy balance of existing buildings and urban districts and reduce CO2 emissions. Using a digital architectural model, they are also looking at the effects of temperature developments in the interior of a building. In doing so, they take into account, for example, how windows,...

Property owners in Neuwied now have to dig much deeper into their pockets. This is because the Koblenz Administrative Court ruled that the city can raise the assessment rate for property tax B from 420% to 610% (5 K 1000/21.KO & 5 K 999/21.KO). Owners of residential properties had filed a complaint against this. However, without success. The judges from Koblenz ruled that the...

The association Wohnen im Eigentum criticizes the plans to introduce an online-only owners' meeting by the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ) and has compiled eleven arguments against such a procedure. Among the arguments put forward by WiE are that older and educationally disadvantaged citizens could be excluded, that the possibility of exercising voting rights would be unnecessarily...

The 100 largest listed construction companies are building more and more despite the coronavirus pandemic. This is according to the "Global Powers of Construction" study published by Deloitte GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. According to Deloitte, total turnover in construction activity amounted to USD 1.8 trillion in 2021, an increase of 14% compared to the previous year. Deloitte shows...

A company from Grünwald offers the creation of life-size floor plans of up to 200 square meters. Using special high-performance projectors, founders Gissou and Lucas Nummer can, for example, project furniture and walls onto a surface in real size. All they need in advance, i.e. before construction begins, is a floor plan from the client. After real-size projection via software...

In the study "Hallo Nachbar*in - Die große Schweizer Nachbarschaftsstudie", the Swiss have investigated how neighborhoods function in Switzerland and what types of neighborhoods there are. Based on an empirical representative quantitative survey and a qualitative study, the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute concludes that "neighborhoods in Switzerland are...