Urban Factory - Development of resource-efficient factories in the city

Background

Nowhere are structural change processes more evident than in cities. In the maelstrom of diverse growth and shrinkage processes, more and more production sites are being pushed to the outskirts of cities or onto greenfield sites. Countless companies are fighting to retain successful urban locations. The Urban Factory of the future recognizes the advantages of production close to the city and finds resource-efficient solutions to generate benefits for the factory and the city. The central element is the expansion to methods and technologies that enable the efficient use of key resources such as electricity, heat, fuel and space. The factory is no longer viewed solely as a consumer of resources, but becomes a supplier to the surrounding neighborhood. The cooperation of the factory with the actors of the neighborhood thus increases the efficiency of the factory-city system.

Approach

The research project uses model projects to develop a knowledge platform on the energy and resource efficiency of production in the city. The starting point is the interdisciplinary investigation of various model projects of factories in urban areas from the perspective of urban planning, urban development, industrial construction, factory planning, logistics and energy design. Companies and urban structures are also analyzed. The investigation of reference projects ensures a generally valid derivation of measures in the form of networked planning methods and concrete technological building blocks that can be transferred to countless other projects.

One of these reference projects is the eCargo bike case study. A cargo bike with an electric motor - the cargoSurfer - was specially developed for this case study. It is used to supply 21 offices and workshops at Dortmund Airport with equipment, spare parts and tools. A second cargoSurfer is used in Mülheim/Ruhr to deliver goods to private individuals. ITL developed the underlying transport concept for both applications. The case study is accompanied by an analysis in the areas of environment, costs, performance and image. This enables a holistic comparison of e-cargo bikes and cars. For the research project, findings on the potential of e-cargo bikes for supplying urban production sites can be determined and possible applications and limits derived.

Intended results

The project has been completed. The results have been published in the final report.

The research project is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy as part of the EnEff:Stadt research program.

Contact person:Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Clausen

Client:

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Participating consortium and cooperation partners:

TU Braunschweig
Department of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences
Institute of Industrial Building and Structural Design
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Arch. M. Arch. Carsten Roth
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Michael Bucherer

TU Dortmund University
Department of Spatial Planning
FG Urban Development, Urban Design and Urban Land Use Planning
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Christa Reicher
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Stadtplaner AKNW Holger Hoffschröer

University of Duisburg-Essen
Department of Civil Engineering
Institute of Urban Planning and Urban Development
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing., M. Arch, J. Alexander Schmidt
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Fabian Schnabel

TU Braunschweig
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Institute of Machine Tools and Production Engineering (IWF)
Sustainable Production and Life Cycle Engineering
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann
Contact: M. Sc. Max Juraschek

Energie für Geisweid GmbH
Siegen
Contact: Mauri Uusitalo

Battery Lab Factory Braunschweig
Braunschweig
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Tomow

PIA Foundation - Foundation for Integrated Urban Development
Contact: Benjamin Triestram, M.Sc. Geography