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The Real Estate Industry Meets the Construction Industry
Cities and urban areas are growing and becoming more accepted as powerful economic centers.
This is where you can find future markets for construction and living. Innovation, information and supply & demand are concentrated here. This is where the citizens’ desire for a modern quality of life becomes fulfilled.
The future is urban. Urban development - through new developments or modifications of existing developments - requires new solutions from architects, project planners, designers and sociologists.
“Better city - better life” is the catch word.
With the “Urban Solutions Berlin” congress, we offer you a forum for the discussion and presentation of these forward-looking topics from the construction and real estate industries.
Urban Solutions Berlin
The convention will highlight the opportunities in the construction and real estate market of the future.
The decision makers of the housing and real estate industries want to work together with the building industry and urban planners to find answers to the latest challenges.
What are the new potentialities for construction?
What will design, planning, construction and financing look like in 5, 10 or 20 years?
What demands will future markets require from investors and planners, civil engineers, construction companies and manufacturers?
How exactly should the players in the construction market act in order to best profit from the future opportunities which are now currently recognized?
A City in Flux
There is a popular saying: “Berlin will never be finished - it will always be a work in progress.” Urban planning uses future-oriented spatial planning to address the constant changes taking place in the city, as well as the challenges resulting from societal and economic changes,
Urban planning doesn’t limit itself to construction and form - it is also understood to be a cross-functional area which also considers economic, corporate and social aspects.
Dr.-Ing. Gerald Leue
The Participants
- Investors
- Federal, state and municipal governments
- Housing associations and cooperatives
- State and municipal development corporations
- Project developers
- Architects and engineers
- Public utilities
- Facilities management
- Banking and insurance industries
- Scientific and educational institutions
- Business and specialized media
- and the construction industry and manufacturers
Key participants (not yet confirmed)
- German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development, Berlin
- Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (Reconstruction Loan Corporation), Berlin
- Bundesverband Deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilienunternehmen e.V. (German Association of Housing and Real Estate Companies), Berlin
- Bund Deutscher Architekten (German Association of Architects), Berlin
- German Association of Consulting Engineers, Berlin
- Association of German Real Estate Agents, IVD, Berlin
- Bundesverband Freier Immobilien- und Wohnungsunternehmen (German Association of Independent Real Estate and Housing Companies), Berlin
- Zentralverband der Haus-, Wohnungs- und Grundeigentümer (German Confederation of Homeowners and Property Owners), Berlin
- Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie (Association of the German Construction Industry)
- Bundesverband Steine und Erden (Federal Association of Building Materials, Stones and Soil)
- Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Affairs
The Congress (not yet confirmed)
Political Statement
Dr. Annette Schavan, Federal Minister of Education and Research
”How does innovation develop? What role can policy play?”
Futurology
Matthias Horx, Prof. Rolf Kreibich, Prof. Franz Josef Radermacher
”The World in 5, 10, 20 years – the path from innovation to capital investment Architecture
Prof. Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Christoph Ingenhoven
Architecture in 5, 10, 20 years: The added-value of design
Living
Lutz Freitag (GdW), Prof. Dr. Volker Eichener (InWis)
The housing market in 5, 10, 20 years: Living, renting and marketing
Financing
Ingrid Matthäus-Meyer (KfW), Wolfgang Nowak, Herrhausen Stiftung,
Board Member, Deutsche Bank
Real estate financing in 5, 10, 20 years: The financing of ideas
Infrastructure
Chairman of the Managing Board, Vattenfall and Head of Public Utilities of a large city (Prof. Zemlin, Bonn)
Infrastructure systems in 5, 10, 20 years: From public services to the infrastructure market
Construction Industry
Eckart Drosse (HGF Bauindustrieverband Hessen-Thüringen)
Construction in 5, 10, 20 years: Between industrialization and individualization
Building Materials Industry/Suppliers - Thomas Kaczmarek
”What will we be using in construction in 5, 10, 20 years?”
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